Maggie's Farm

America Has Always Been a Dangerous Idea. The Declaration of
Independence wasn’t just a break from empire. It was a challenge to
every regime that came after.

The Decline and Fall of Our So-Called Degreed Experts

AI’s great brain robbery — and how universities can fight back/ ChatGPT
and its like have swept through academia, changing how students work,
write and think. The bots are here to stay, so we need to reimagine
learning

454 Hints That a Chatbot Wrote Part of a Biomedical Researcher’s Paper - Scientists
show that the frequency of a set of words seems to have increased in
published study abstracts since ChatGPT was released into the world.

US Patriotism Among Democrats Crashes As Marxist Demands Grow Louder

Saturday Miscellany

 Black New Yorkers rage over Zohran Mamdani’s ‘African American’ claim: ‘He’s a fraud’

Republicans talk, Trump does

Trump 2.0 is a Wrecking Ball

Trump Seeks to Remake the World, He wants as much executive power as possible and the U.S. the top global player.

Trump Extends His Political Power With 'Big, Beautiful' Win in Congress

We Can’t Pay Everyone - It is a global phenomenon: more and more people are dependent, in one way or another, on government.

I’m Finally Hanging My American Flag - Growing
up, I was taught to dislike the American flag and all that it
represented. This year, for the first time, I hung one outside my house.

Early birds get the burn: Early bedtimes are associated with more physical activity

Metropolitan Opera’s Peter Gelb blames Trump for sales slump — but needs to look in the mirror

Big Apple driving school rigged licenses for illegal aliens, even if they couldn’t drive

Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins - The new cold war means a race with
China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by
embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect
ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian
menace.

Ratcliffe Declassifies CIA Documents – Reveals Comey, Brennan, and
Clapper Purposely Corrupted Trump-Russia Investigation and Included
Discredited Steele Dossier to Take Down Trump Despite Knowing It Was a
Phony Report

DOJ Announces Indictments in $14.6 Billion Medicaid/Medicare Fraud Ring

DC Judge Allows All Illegal Migrants to Seek Asylum, Halting Deportation

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Plan to Deport 500,000 Haitians — Here’s Why

Democrats, Animated by Loathing of Trump, Are Driving Their Party to Self-Destruction

Mamdani’s grocery scheme is foolish — but there’s method to the madness

Establishment Democrats Created The Conditions For A Socialist Victory

Trump puts common-sense brakes on immigration enforcement for farm and hospitality workers

Trump’s racking up wins — and rewriting the book on diplomacy

IDF dismantles Hamas terror tunnel under school

By The Numbers: Even CNN’s Expert Pollster Shocked By How Anti-Israel Dems Have Become

What Is the Intifada?

Poland To Introduce Border Controls With Germany As Migration Crisis Grows

1 in 10 in the UK are on Disability. “They give us the money. You work, give us the money. Allah Akbar, we take the money."

I deserve the ‘princess treatment’ when I’m out with my husband — tradwife haters don’t understand, but I feel special

How sorry are you? Why learning to apologise well could save your relationships

" The best reason to step across political or cultural divides isn’t
open-mindedness or civic virtue. It’s that it makes life more
interesting and fun."

Consumption Wars: Streaming Overtakes Traditional TV In May

How the Yuppies Became Socialists

Democrats, Animated by Loathing of Trump, Are Driving Their Party to Self-Destruction

Democrats Are Not Proud to Be American

Settler-Colonialist Zohran Mamdani Calls For "Seizing The Means Of Production"

Alligator Alcatraz Live: Trump Tours New Illegal Alien Deportation Camp In Florida Swamp

Jeff Bezos's Wedding 100% Funded By Your Wife's Amazon Purchases

  The Secret of Good Grandparenting: “As far as I was concerned there
was only one maxim to being a good grandparent: Zip it,” writes Julie
Rose. Let your children be the parents they want to be, not the parents you want them to be.

Hoarders say they feel stigmatized, face 'everyday discrimination'

Sleep helps stitch memories into cognitive maps, according to new neuroscience breakthrough

Guy is mad on July 4th week, but it's about hating Trump. Seemingly no other reason than that the Trump team is a bunch of stupid poopy-heads.

Nothing new there.  

Top Economist Admits Trump May Have ‘Outsmarted All of Us’ on Tariffs

German Police Raid 170 Homes Over 'Hate Speech', Insults To Politicians

We need to find out why family life is falling apart. Fewer couples are marrying, women are having fewer babies and more children are growing up with only one parent

Gen-Z Office Workers Are a Special Breed

The UK has a Communications Regulator 

Disney Hit With More Layoffs As Latest Woke Projects Bomb Hard

20 years ago, a Connecticut city gov't seized a little pink house and gave it to a developer.

‘Big beautiful’ AI rule means feds must act NOW to stop Big Tech’s abuses

Can't happen. It's all international now.

The Democratic Party Has Fallen. They bet it all on a ten-year war on Trump and Lost Everything.

European Researcher Bernadette Conrads Uncovers the Shadowy Reach of
USAID Across Europe — Deep State Dollars, Election Meddling, and
Censorship Campaigns Exposed

Of course it has been a CIA front 

How Long Will Trump’s Winning Streak Last?

Iranian Women Take to Streets to Offer Babies Up for Martyrdom

Good news: Botswana is doing fine 

Hanging out with sharks 

Attributed to Winston Churchill, “We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.”

Why Johnny and Janey Can't Think

UK Pulls Plug On £24 Billion Desert Power Fantasy

Civil rights complaint filed against Cornell includes bombshell whistleblower emails

Campus conservatives are cool again, and the left is lashing out

Scholars upset SCOTUS lets Muslims opt kids out of LGBT books

Sotomayor says public education is doomed without mandatory gay and trans story hour

Justice Kagan’s Own Words Come Back to Haunt Her on Nationwide Injunctions

Anti-Semitism is now trendy.

This Excerpt From Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Dissent Explains Why She Got Nuked by Amy Coney Barrett

Tens of Thousands of “New Voters” Registered to Vote for Mamdani

 Zohran Mamdani doubles down on plan to target ‘whiter neighborhoods’ with higher taxes — and says billionaires
shouldn’t exist

Zohran Mamdani on why he wants to empty jails: "VioIence is an artificial construct"

 Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Glastonbury and the Purge of the Jews. Plus. . .Inside the ‘Stop Mamdani’ frenzy. Did the Supreme
Court just clear the way for Trump? Arthur Brooks on how to live a good
life. And much more. 

Trump’s Description of Ilhan Omar is 100% Spot-On

Chuck Todd Finally Figures Out the Problem With the Democratic Party and Thank You Captain Obvious

Vice President Vance Underscores Reports of Massive Waste and Corruption in Foreign Aid

Thousands of State Department Workers Brace for Layoffs

Smerconish: Trump Had One of His Best Weeks Ever

 NYT: Israel, Trump Stopped Iran Nuke ... Which Was Trump's Fault

Obama’s CIA Director Plots Global Censorship As Germany And Brazil Intensify Their Crackdown On Free Speech

1900 Scientists Say 'Climate Change Not Caused By CO2' – The Real Environment Movement Was Hijacked

The Icarian Gene: The Rise and Fall of the Expert Class

 Supreme Courts Upholds Right of Parents to Opt Their Kids Out of LGBTQ-Themed Classroom Activities

Saturday Miscellany

"Time To Leave NYC": Kyle Bass Urges Dan Loeb To "Embrace Your Inner Texas" After Mamdani's Socialist Shockwave

Zohran Mamdani And The Future Of The Democratic Party

Jewish Anti-Semitism

Eye-popping analysis of Trump’s win shows Democrats are in serious trouble

NYC Mayor Eric Adams To Run For Reelection Against Rival Mamdani

Trump Seizes Momentum From Ceasefire Deal to Expand Peace in Middle East

10th year gender studies student worries Trump will deport her before she graduates next year

The Welfare Trap: How They Bought Your Obedience for $642 a Month

Feminists Are Begging For Men To Come Back But Still Blame Them For Everything

The Mayor Who Wants to Save San Francisco from Itself. Plus. . .

The collapse of faith in the legacy media

The Danger Of A Successful Society: Absurdity

Illegal But 'Honest, Hardworking Individuals' at NE Meat Packing Plant Also Using Stolen IDs, SSNs

In reality, Iran’s winning hand was a mirage.

A Former Intel Official Used Seven Words to Describe the Leaked Report on Trump's Iran Strikes

Berlin To Build New Asylum Complex For Over 1,000 Migrants While Locals Face Housing Crisis

"Vicious Circle": Immigration Is Costing France 3.4% Of Its GDP

Against Identity by Alexander Douglas review – a superb critique of contemporary self-obsession

Good Laugh For Today: New York State Says It Will Build A New Nuclear Power Plant

Three Things That Weren’t Supposed to Happen, But Did.On trade, on immigration, on finance, reality keeps ignoring the experts

Why So Many Rich Socialists?

Wars are won on the factory floor. To survive the geopolitical turmoil of the 21st century, the West needs to revive its industrial base.

Jasmine Crockett Went After Melania, And I'm Not Gonna Let That Slide

WAYNE ROOT: If Zohran Mamdani Becomes NYC Mayor Here is What Happens to
New York. Get Ready for Third World Gaza-Like “No Go Zone” Inside
America.

Dems Wonder: Is It Bad That Our New Star Is a Intifada-Globalizing Socialist?

Jewish Democrats Have a Bad Feeling About This

James Carville calls Zohran Mamdani’s NYC mayoral primary victory a ‘potentially damaging event’ for Democratic Party

NYC mayoral primary delivers worst of all possible outcomes with Zohran Mamdani

Those Who Claimed Iran Didn’t Have a Nuclear Program, Now Claim It Does

New Revelations Completely Blow Up Corporate Media Narrative Regarding
U.S. Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Sites – President Trump Issues Spicy
Response

Witkoff to Newsmax: Expansion of Abraham Accords in Coming Weeks

Sweden's Education Crisis

Wokester wedding: New York Times puts out its most ridiculous 'Vows' wedding announcement ever

‘Chivalry is dead’: What men just aren’t doing anymore

Tyler Cowen: Does AI Make Us Stupid? “Do not panic,” writes Tyler
Cowen. “The age of stupidity is not yet upon us—at least not compared to
how stupid things already have been.”

England’s Mandatory Suicide & Women

Trump rescinds protections on 59m acres of national forest to allow logging. Agriculture secretary to scrap ‘roadless rule’ that protects lands including largest old growth forest in country

What Will It Take for New York to Elect a Republican?

Alligator Alcatraz 

Trump’s Iran ceasefire depends on American oil

Even Obama Official Gives Trump ‘High Marks’ For Handling Of Iran Crisis

France Is No Longer France

Georgia to restart cursive writing classes for elementary students

Nap Time And Ping Pong: Inside Gen Z's Batsh*t Crazy Expectations For A Workplace

Political Violence Surges Because Politics Matter Too Much - We’ve made government so powerful that people will fight rather than surrender control to the enemy.

Unpacking Trump Derangement Syndrome

Is This Why the Left Is Throwing a Tantrum Over Trump's Air Strikes Against Iran?

Supreme Court Hands Trump Huge Win On Deporting 'Worst Of The Worst' Illegals

"THE CEASEFIRE IS NOW IN EFFECT. PLEASE DO NOT VIOLATE IT!"

Julie Birchill:  HALFLING: A FAREWELL TO LEGS. I’ll be writing about my collapse,
surgery and subsequent life in a wheelchair, by turns hilarious and
horrific, and the attitude of society towards the disabled - not quite
humans, but ‘Halflings’.

The Coward's Bargain: How We Taught A Generation To Live In Fear

Massachusetts Schools May Risk Top Ranking To Lift Struggling Students

New York/Florida Comparison: The Contrast Becomes Ever More Dramatic

 Things Worth Remembering: How Warriors Prepare. “I was aware that the price of learning on the job in combat is often paid in blood,” writes H.R. McMaster. It’s
true that training for a war in peacetime is like learning to swim on
dry land. But that’s why American soldiers are expected to read books
like this.

Suzy Weiss: If Kamala Harris Were President. . .

Glenn Reynolds:  Five Takes on Bombing Iran - From the department of Earth-shattering kabooms

Kimball:  What Trump’s Critics Still Don’t Understand About Iran - Trump’s Iran
policy confounds critics because it’s not about war or appeasement—it’s
about weakening Iran without revealing the playbook.

Trump’s support keeps growing while Democrats howl at the moon

Nancy Pelosi Spits Bile at Trump After He Bombs Iranian Nuclear Sites – But Forgets What She Said When Obama Was Bombing Libya

Why Is The EU So Scared of ‘Hate Speech’?

Will Vitamin D Go the Way of Cod Liver Oil? Scrutinizing the scientific literature might dampen one’s enthusiasm for the “sunshine vitamin"

‘Mankeeping’ is ruining dating for women who are tired of relationship burnout: ‘I’m not your therapist’

Meet the members of the Dull Men’s Club: ‘Some of them would bore the ears off you’

What's up with The Great American Novel? 

Fossil fuel use is growing

Bari’s Picks of the Week: Will We or Won’t We?

TGIF: Monitoring the Situation

Saturday Miscellany 

The Coward's Bargain: How We Taught A Generation To Live In Fear

Trump Hints at Potential Breakthrough with Iran

‘Donald is right’ and China is the problem, EU chief says

Simple social rituals like eye contact and small talk are psychologically powerful

ChatGPT use linked to cognitive decline: MIT research

Three Years Left To Save The World From Climate Doom

Climate Catastrophism Has Entered the Classroom. Some students think the world is ending. The mental health industry told them so.

Dare we say that transmania, as I am wont to call it, was one of the craziest cultural moments in our history.

Harvard Law Review Axes 85 Percent of Submissions Using Race-Conscious Rubric

Universities hire more DEI staff than history professors while millions of students leave without degrees

By 2028, a Majority of California Community College Applications Will Be Fake

Everyone hates HR

Cowardly British press - England's newspapers tear into Trump but bow to UK's new police state

Blue Collar Wage Growth Already Happening Under Trump, Just Like in His First Term

The Marxists Are Coming. The hope and hysteria of American Marxism

VDH:  Can the Left Ever Stop Its Craziness?

Clarence Thomas, JD Vance are right: Don’t trust the left’s ‘experts’

Blue States Fighting to Feed, Clothe and House Illegals...and Then There's Florida

Emails Reveal Shocking Lengths the Biden DOJ Went to Get Trump

A Christian Conservative SCOTUS Was Once My Greatest Fear - But now, my cup runneth over.

Obama: We can't have diversity of facts 

Germany's Mildly Restrictive Immigration Policies Are Paying Off

Iran Likely To Pursue Nukes If US Joins Israel's War - Trump Worried About 'Libya Scenario'

Juneteenth: A holiday for ALL Americans as we fight that battle onward

What If The Foundation Of The Climate Scare Was A Calculated Lie?

‘More Babies and Beef Tallow, Less Blue Hair and Birth Control’

Young white men feel the need to ‘walk on eggshells’ and censor themselves at work — here’s why

Doctor Fired for Trans Surgery Comments Receives $1.6 Million Settlement

Thousands of UK University Students Caught Using AI to Cheat

Dear Democrats: I Won't Let You Exhaust Me With Your Diaper-Filling Tantrums

The Summer of Cloward-Piven

Are the Good Iranian People About to Have a Moment?

Iranians Chant for Shah’s Return As Terrorist Regime Collapses

Checkmate! Israel’s brilliant war against Iran

Near Total Internet Blackout In Iran As Israel Has Control Of Skies

Blue States Used to Lead in Education. Not Anymore

TV Networks Face Advertising Apocalypse After Trump Admin Mulls Pharma Restrictions

Wednesday Potpourri

As Deportations Rise, The U.S. Is On Track For The Lowest Murder Rate On Record

Death to Iran’s Regime

Downfall of the ayatollahs?

‘They strike, we dance’ — Iranians damn the regime amid Israeli barrage

Why, NYT, Why?! Paper Runs Hit Piece on Dads on Father's Day

Juneteenth Celebrations Cut as DEI Funding Collapses

What is it? 

AI is killing jobs and fueling campus radicalism

We can still tell our Great American Story. And we can make it great once again.

Sanctuaries and SALT: Should State and Local Taxes Be Deductible?

A funny thing happened after ICE raided a meatpacking plant…

Chicago's Mayor Promises to Resist Enforcing the Law

Trump Gives Bombshell 1AM Presser, Slams Emmanuel Macron, Slaps Down 'Ceasefire' Reports

In less than four days, the IDF has effectively severed Khamenei from
his own regime, even if the ayatollah is still upright and breathing.

MSNBC Shocked Army’s 250th Birthday Lacked 'Tense' or 'Dark, Malevolent Energy'

June 14: America on Parade—and on Edge

"No Kings" -- just commissars? I report from a rally up North.

The Left Not So Happy With The Monster They Created

Race-Based Policies Inevitably Produce Inter-Ethnic Animosity

 Daniel Hannan: Britain is turning into a Third World country. One
of the best aspects of our nation is social capital. But it is ebbing
away, and the state is struggling to protect us from crime

Losing Social Capital

Nearly 1 million illegal immigrants have ‘self deported’ under Trump, which has led to higher wages

You Thought the Pager Attack Was Amazing? Israel Outdid Itself This Time

Which Way Will Trump Break on Iran? Plus. . .

Ancient Landscape Preserved Under Antarctica Ice Sheet: 'It's a time capsule'

Stop Striving and Have a Baby. Growing up rich in Manhattan, I was taught that becoming a
parent meant your life was over. My baby daughter has taught me
something else.

About That White Guy Laughing in the Face of a Black Mom Trying to Get to Work...

The Department of Education Will Not Be Eliminated

Saturday Miscellany 

VDH:  The Rogue’s New Gallery of Left-Wing Scoundrels

The $2.1 billion machine behind 'spontaneous' anti-Trump protests

The Ultimate Deception: How Trump and Bibi Outfoxed Iran

Niall Ferguson: Israel’s Attack Restores the Credibility of the West

Perhaps Rube Goldberg Can Fix The Woes Of the New York City Housing Authority

Could You Live Without a Computer? I Can.

President Trump Comments on Israeli Attack on Iran; Will Hold National Security Council Meeting in Situation Room Friday Morning

Israel Strikes Iran. What Comes Next?

Trump’s Unapologetic Defense of the Rule of Law

LA Riots Hand Republicans Script For Midterms

Brian Wilson, Beach Boys Co-Founder, Dies at 82

Mega-study shows exercise boosts cognitive functioning across all ages and health conditions

Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time. By mathematically proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse.

Is Rob Manfred the Best Baseball Commissioner Since Kenesaw Mountain Landis?

In defence of Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater soap

We’re Not Ready for the AI Power Surge

Why “Pride Month” 2025 Is Falling Flat

What Makes Europe Better than America?

Miranda Devine: The art of Trump’s trade deal with China — how admin got it done

If You Thought Service at Home Depot Was Bad Before...

Los Angeles Is Dying

MSM addresses anarchy in LA: ‘Why burning EVs isn’t a good idea’

Look In Their Eyes: MSM Hacks Know They're Lying and That Their Industry Is Dying

Dr. Naomi Wolf: War On Ranchers And Erosion Of Food Freedom

In the face of rapid advancements in generative AI, younger workers feel
that skills like empathy, communication, and leadership are the most
important tools for success

Los Angeles has fallen. How can riot-rocked LA be trusted to host the Olympics?

More Riots Break Out in Chicago, Other Cities Across U.S.

Reading, writing, and racism in Philly schools, Sly Stone’s funk revolution, and much more

Wednesday Potpourri

Backpacking Writer Asks Whether You Should Carry a Gun on the Trail or Not

There is no dignity in dyeing. I’ve decided to let my hair go grey

Trump's Law-and-Order vs. Democrats' Open Border

Even CNN Knows the Riots Are Gonna Backfire on the Left

Here’s Who REALLY Denied National Guard Troops on January 6—And It Wasn’t Trump

Who Is Burning Cars and Throwing Rocks in LA? Plus. . . Why
immigration is the most important issue of our era. Trump’s master
class in winning over the working class. Mike Huckabee from Jerusalem.
And much more.

Miranda Devine: Foreign flags fly in LA anti-ICE riots — vindicating Donald Trump and leaving Dems with no moral standing

GOP Voters Side With Trump Over Musk, 71% to 6% — and Trump’s Approval Rating Rises AGAIN

Cracking the Red-tail Code: Exploring the Diversity of America’s Most Widespread Hawk

AI Pen Detects Parkinson's Early

Climate Change was an Invention of the Rockefellers

Things Worth Remembering: The Freedom to Be Different - After Nazism destroyed his homeland, Simon Rawidowicz defiantly wrote: ‘Do not try to hide the Different inside you"

Defund The NAS!

All the Cool Kids Think Donald Trump Is Coming for Them

Deported MS-13 Suspect Returns to Face Justice – Possible Ten Years to Life

Now they’re calling Team Trump “deranged” for moving to shut down the LA rioting.

Here’s Why Trump Had No Choice But to Step In and Stop the Riots

Who pays the rioters? 

The Reporting on the Gaza War Is Fundamentally Broken

D-Day remembered

Get Women Out of Combat

Is Jordan Peterson Just Making It Up as He Goes?

MIT discontinues Institute Community and Equity Office after review process

Why Woke Failed - The movement was based on flawed understandings of human nature.

China and American academia 

Poland Is Resisting the EU’s War on Populism

Kremlin Says Threat Is 'Existential' After Trump Likens Ukraine War To 'Two Kids Fighting In The Park'

Ordeal of Omaha Beach

Cartoon Liberation | Robert Crumb and His Times

What Porn Took From Us

This Scientist Says MIT Ruined His Life. Now He's Fighting for Redemption.

Status, class, and the crisis of expertise

Can Anyone Save New York From Its Coming Self-Inflicted Climate and Energy Disaster?

 TGIF: The Real Housewives of Pennsylvania Avenue - Donald Trump and
Elon Musk speak to the press as they sit in a Tesla on the South Portico
of the White House. (Mandel Ngan via Getty Images)
The breakup of
the year. FEMA forgets what hurricanes are. Trump dumps the Federalist
Society. Dems try out normalcy. Biden says et tu, Karine Jean-Pierre?
And much more.

Palestinians at U.S.-Backed Gaza Aid Site Cheer for America, Trump

Trump Tries to Save Science

A Contract on America

Has the U.K. Just Signed Its Own Death Warrant?