Maggie's Farm

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?

Hudson’s Bay closes after 355 years

How Catholicism Got Cool

This Program Is a Lifeline for the Severely Mentally Ill. Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics serve as a one-stop shop for people with psychotic conditions.

The Trump-Hating Left’s Worst Nightmare: Things Really Are Looking Up

Rasmussen Poll: Trump Approval Up to 53 Percent

‘The View’ Co-Host Sunny Hostin Says Elon Musk’s DOGE Cuts Have Killed 300,000 People — ‘Mostly Children’

 It’s Totally Unfair To Require Climate Professionals To Practice What They Preach

Congresswoman Claims Immigrants Are Needed to 'Wipe Our A**ses'

Migrants In The UK Are Receiving £1 Billion Per Month In Welfare Benefits

The US-Israel Gaza aid plan is working — which is why Hamas is spreading lies about it

The Washington Post Lied....

Kurt Volker to Newsmax: Putin Wants to Keep Fighting in Ukraine

The British Mother Serving Time for a Tweet

"... this generation has been raised on therapy and has had their minds
marinated in therapy principles, to the point where they blame their
parents for everything that went wrong in their lives and where they
refuse to pass on the bad parenting to their own children."

Taught For America - A Chronicle of Failure

Voters must fight Dems’ new war on small-town America

We Don't Need To Welcome In People Who Hate Us

Nate Silver on Why Young Men Are Leaving Democratic Party

WaPo Befuddled by Decline in Fentanyl

Oh, Bill Maher. So Smart, So Stupid.

How the Muslim Brotherhood Is Capturing Europe

The author of Glengarry Glen Ross, Speed-the-Plow, and American Buffalo, David Mamet must be our greatest living playwright.

Red-pilled 

Drones: the newest twist in warfare

America Doesn’t Need ‘International Students’

CNN's Buried Lede: New Poll Shows Dems Still Cratering

Marco Rubio Declares War On The Global Censors

Brussels: The Muddy Mirror of a Europe in Crisis

Where have all the Jews gone? Jews are fleeing from cities and nations that were once safe havens.

Germany self-sabotages again

The Tide Is Turning Against The Transgender Takeover Of Women's Sports

Gender Medicine on the Ropes - From the courtroom to the ballot box, the trans movement has taken some hits.

Self-Care Didn’t Work for My Anxiety—Medicine Did

Climate Attribution Lawfare Hits New Low with 2021 Heat Wave Lawsuit

Yale dean emails everyone anti-Trump essay: ‘I know you share my concern’

How Much Plastic Surgery Does a Woman Really Need?

New York in Danger of Being Steamrolled by the Rent-Freeze Voting Bloc and Pandering Pols

 ‘Free Palestine’ Terrorism. Plus. . .Police set up a roadblock into
downtown following an incident that the FBI is investigating as an act
of terror on June 1, 2025, in Boulder, Colorado. Are Trump’s tariffs legal? The Tyler Cowen guide to finding the most talented people on the planet. And much more. 

Palestinians Shocked U.S. Aid Is Free, After Being Charged by Hamas for U.N. Aid

Nutritionists Reveal the Surprising Amount of Protein You Actually Need

AI and the Death of Literary Criticism

IQ Is Not Intelligence

Lionel Shriver: I lost control of my body

10,000 Fly to French Riviera to Save Planet

How The Blues Brothers Saved American Music

About Trump's Counterrevolution

Saturday Miscellany

The clash within civilizations by Heather Mac Donald

What Trump’s Accreditation Moves Get Right - They force progressive institutions to accept current civil-rights law.

Mark Steyn's Vindication: A Triumph for Free Speech and Personal Fortitude

The Bourgeois Morality of ‘The Ethicist’

MAGA’s Machiavelli: The Quiet Rise of Michael Anton

Atlantic’s Goldberg Defends Media’s Silence on Biden’s Decline

The Democratic Party's Death Spiral Is Even Worse Than We Thought

Why is Trump approval rising?

The Legitimate Scope Of Judicial Restraints On Presidential Authority; The Need For Politically Neutral Principles

Core Inflation Falls To Lowest Rate In Four Years

The Biden Autopen Scandal May Be Getting Worse

The Peasants’ War: Why Germany’s Elite Fear the Past

Keir Starmer: a bad man who identifies as good

The clash within civilizations by Heather Mac Donald On the West & the “hermeneutics of suspicion.”

I always have to check the meaning of hermeneutics

Goodbye Oakland A’s. Hello Oakland Ballers.

Biden Officials KNEW COVID Vaccine Caused Heart Damage and Hid It From the Public

Progressives Progress Beyond Polyamory

Who has time?

Climate extremists make our kids despair — and groom them to join the left’s crusades

Hillary Clinton Calls on Liberals to Ruin Memorial Day Gatherings by Bashing Trump to “Friends, Neighbors, Cookout Attendees”

Good idea for sure

Democrats Considering New Strategy Of Complaining Loudly Every Day About Trump

The Democrats: Leadership discredited, party off kilter

Saturday Miscellany

Federal judge strikes down Trump’s efforts to dismantle Education Department

Dershowitz told "American Agenda" that Harvard's Divinity School and Public Health School are "sewers of antisemitism."

Bari’s Picks of the Week: May Their Memories Be a Blessing

Elias Gonzalez Confessed, Said He 'Did It for Palestine'

Want to Reduce Poverty? Teach the “Success Sequence” Any serious attempt to tackle the problem must address not just economics but culture.

MinnesotaCare for undocumented immigrants continues to cause problems for Walz

LA Hotels Revolt as City Approves $38 Minimum Wage

The Sins Of Our Colonizers: Europe's Highbrows Imagine Themselves As The World's New Royalty

Germany deploys permanent troops beyond its borders for the first time since WWII

China Isn’t Taking Over Manufacturing, It’s Taking Over Retail

Ro Khanna Is Wrong: Trump's AI Diplomacy Is America First

Graduate Student Solves Classic Problem About the Limits of Addition

Forget AI, students are already cheating their way through exams

Can We Trust Social Science Yet?

The reasons for Snow White and The Seven Dwarf’s success were evident.

New York Times On Climate Change: Two Candidates For Quote Of The Day

Congress overturns California’s gas car ban impacting 11 states and D.C.

Trump admin accuses Columbia University of violating Jewish students’ rights

Trump Admin Blocks Harvard From Enrolling International Students,
Requires Current Foreign Students To Transfer 'Or Lose Legal Status'

Musk's 'Biggest Product of All Time' Will Do Your Dishes

Who Is Elias Rodriguez?

TGIF: Fit to Serve - Biden’s cover-up gets aired out. Trump yells at
Walmart. Wannabe citizens compete on reality TV. DOGE fumbles. Dems
can’t find their Joe Rogan. And much more.

DOGE Damage Deepens As 'Deep TriState' Continuing Jobless Claims Highest Since Dec 2021

Via Instapundit:

Flashback: Jon Gabriel last year: Welcome to protest season, where the
cause changes but the tactics stay the same. “One year, statues are
toppled and the next, Jews are bullied, but it’s amazing how the
far-left treats such wildly diverse issues with the same small toolbox.
It has ever been thus. As one radical wrote for a Students for a
Democratic Society publication in the 1960s, ‘The issue is never the
issue. The issue is always the revolution.'”

5 Simple Tips for Talking With Your Doctor

The Atlantic Goes Full Animal House: You F'd Up, You Trusted Us!

Why Do Leftists Think That Train Travel Is the Solution to Everything?

California’s $100bn railway to nowhere exposes the stunning costs of Democrat incompetence

Supreme Court: Children of Illegal Aliens or Tourists are not U.S. Citizens

A Fired Government Worker Later Sobbed but Couldn't Call His Parents Because of This Hilarious Reason

No job is permanent, but I feel bad for people who thought it was

'This Is a District Court—Not a Denny’s': 5th Circuit Responds to SCOTUS in TdA Case and Hoo Boy

Marco Rubio Rocks and Will Be President One Day

Qatar: Futuristic City, Medieval Morals

Meanwhile, in Gaza

Trump Challenges South Africa’s President Over Boers

Sensible Birthright Citizenship

FDA Stops Recommending Covid Vaccine Boosters for Most Americans

Ask Your Doctor if Jihad Is Right for You

"Renewable" Electricity Champion Denmark Now Looking Into Nuclear

Denmark's population is smaller than NYC

OpenAI’s Sam Altman rips ‘naive’ critics of Trump-backed AI chip deals with UAE, Saudi Arabia

Democrats’ Confederacy of Dunces

Trump’s Foreign Policy: An Exercise in Radical Pragmatism

"We Have Imported Knife Violence" – Wave Of Attacks Shakes Germany Once Again

Resuming Control of Gaza Is a Terrible Idea. But What the Hell Else Can Israel Do?

UK, Canada, France Gang Up On Israel, Demand Ending IDF Operation as Hamas Stalls Hostage Talks

American Vulgarity, from Lenny Bruce to Kanye West

Would You Rather Be Liked or Respected?

A Reason The Birthrate Is So Low

Gell-Mann amnesia in media

What Joe Biden's Cancer Can (And Should) Teach Us About The Media

Media baloney

Van Jones: Dems Will Be Paying For Biden Health "Coverup" For A Long Time, "A Crime Against This Republic"

Anybody notice 60 Minutes's curiously rightward lurch?

Schumer Gets a Smackdown After Trying to Pin Bridge Collision on Trump

'From Prison House to the White House'—Meet Trump's Pardon Czar, Alice Marie Johnson

Oversight Committee Looking Into Feds' Credit Card Use

The FBI Washington Headquarters Won’t Be Missed

France Asks Telegram to Censor Conservative Voices Ahead of Romanian Election

Well, the EU guy won

80% Of French Women Want The Army Deployed In French Cities To Protect Them

Not good.