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 A Revival of Classical Education is Underway

 Freezing, Storing and Thawing My Eggs Cost Me $33,179. I Still Didn’t End Up With a Baby.

 Bari’s Picks of the Week: Deals! Deals! Deals!

Stuart's Miscellany

Trump’s ‘knock-down-drag-out counterrevolution’ is tackling long-festering ills no one else would

Liberals Are on the Verge of a Major PR Pivot. And Their Next Target Will NOT Be Trump.

 Democrats Are Digging Their Political Graves -- and Trump Is Selling Them the Shovel

The Democrats’ trillion-dollar reparations racket = I couldn’t take a check in good conscience

 Glow in the Dark Flowers!

 My Robot Sophia Wasn’t Just a Machine. I Loved Her.

 DEI Destroys the Beauty of a Great Opera. Why do music critics bring their politics to bear on precisely that which is meant to transcend our time and place?

 "I Can't Understand My Professor"

 TGIF: The Emir of America - The Afrikaners arrive in America. The Pope has a Facebook brother. Trump’s trade war worked. Hindus don’t get a heritage month. Britain’s PM goes MAGA. And much more.

Chicago: Why is CPS treating charter and private schools like liquor stores?

 "You're sitting here, live, defending a member of MS-13!"

The prosecution of President Trump was an organized effort by the Democratic Party "resistance." Lawfare is real. The justice system was weaponized against President Trump.

Supremes consider whether one district judge can derail a president

Justice Thomas Destroys the Case for Nationwide Injunctions With One Devastating Question

Check out this robot

Demonology - By turns benign and malign, powerful and vulnerable, earthbound and aerial, daimons across the world resemble one another

As The Federal Government Abandons The Climate Fantasy, New York Doubles Down

 American Colleges Are Building a New Elite - The best and brightest are increasingly unwelcome on campus.

 Mississippi rising: Look South for progress in reading achievement

The Most Important Speech of Trump’s Presidency

Miranda Devine: The left tries to claim white South Africans aren’t worthy of refugee status

 Make America Uganda! I've always wanted to write a column where every sentence is a hate crime.

White House Calls Out Episcopal Church Over Refusal to Help White Refugees

How Qatar Bought America - It’s not just the 747. A Free Press
investigation reveals that the Gulf state has spent almost $100 billion
across Congress, colleges, think tanks, and corporations. What does it
want in return?

 Trump Shocks the World — Again

Why Europe’s Lights Went Out - Spain’s blackout is a cautionary tale of overreliance on wind and solar.

Poll: college-educated women end friendships over politics - Your experience of losing friends since the 2024 election is absolutely real

Ahead of the Curve - Jay
Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, and Vinay Prasad challenged the public
health orthodoxy in our pages. Now, they have the power to fix things.

The Deep State’s Worst Nightmare

I’m a Yale free-speech champion — arrested for words I never said

Roger Kimball: Donald Trump is a Great Man of History

Your Standard of Living Is About to Improve

‘A Defeated Party In The Wilderness’: Fmr Clinton Pollster Predicts What’s Next For Democrats

Merz Meets Reality: Europe Still Needs U.S. for Ukraine, NATO

Israel Up Close - My travels through a demonised democracy.

Alaska Defies Court Order, Moves Forward with Controversial Bear-Killing Program Despite Ruling It Is Illegal

Bananas Under Threat From Global Boiling

ASU campus that is 30% male says it will focus on ‘gender equity’ – for women

VDH:  The Decivilizing of America - From secure borders to functioning
cities, America is shedding the hard-won pillars of civilization—by
choice, not chance—in a sweeping, top-down descent into disorder.

Why Elon Musk Is Right: The Case Against Subsidizing Amtrak

 Financial Media's Tariff Incontinence: A Retrospective

Is President Trumps EO on Drug Prices 'Price Control'?

Trump's drug pricing order delivers blow to pharmacy benefit managers

Long American Tradition of Tension Between the Executive and the Judiciary

The Scandal Buried in the Air Force One Story

UK PM Keir Starmer now says migrants should learn English -- after arresting Brits for hate speech for saying the same thing

Germany Halts Surveillance of AfD Amid US Pressure and Legal Challenge Over Extremist Label

 Germany Is On The Brink Of National Suicide

Don't Be Too Nice

 Julie Burchill: I’m finally out of hospital and I’m haunted by my former self

The worst of the deadly sins - Envy and how to defeat it

 The American Pope - The newly elected pontiff, Pope Leo XIV, is seen
for the first time from the Vatican balcony on May 8, 2025, in Vatican
City. Pope Leo XIV is almost certainly the first Vicar of Christ to have fond memories of the ’85 Bears

Gender dysphoria should be treated with therapy instead of transition treatments, massive Trump-ordered HHS report urges

New York Finally Gets Serious About Mental Illness, In expanding
involuntary commitment, Governor Kathy Hochul, taking cues from Mayor
Eric Adams, has delivered meaningful mental-health reform.

Surprise! Ice is rebounding at BOTH poles

The Mind of David Brooks

 One Hundred Days of Ineptitude - Even those of us who sounded alarms
before the November election underestimated just how unhinged the second
Trump presidency would turn out to be.

Really?

Need More Proof That Polls Showing Trump Underwater Are Bogus?

America is Under Siege – 233 Federal Cases Against Trump

Speech and self-defense are dead letters in England

UK Officially Imposes Islamic Blasphemy Law

How a falsehood about Gaza became accepted as fact.

Our site is slow-loading again. Annoying. Will try to fix again.

 David Horowitz, Conservative Stalwart, Dead At 86

He was a red diaper baby

And Now, Princeton

 Researchers Tell Models To Say People Will Die Without Your Money

 Spanish Grid Operator Warned of Nation’s Heavy Reliance on Renewable Energy in February

Trump Targets American Bar Association Accreditation Power – Something I’ve Advocated For Years

Woke DOJ Lawyers Self-Deport After Being Told They Have to Protect Religious Liberties

 The First 100 Days: The Method Behind The Madness In Court Challenges

Mr. Globalism Goes Away

"Chaos" is the word du Jour

Dems are angry - but about what?

Goodwin: Trump’s first 100 days illustrate his strengths and mindset —decisive, bold, and in a hurry

US and Ukraine Sign Rare Earth Minerals Agreement

The Most Dangerous Club on Earth - This is the sordid story of how North Korea lied its way into nuclear power—and how Iran might do the same.

Constructing Climate Catastrophism

The EU Green Deal: How environmental policies are devastating the mental health of French farmers, dead to suicide.

Europe Asking 'Who Turned the Lights Out?!'

6 Days After Celebrating '100% Renewable Power', Spain Blames "Rare
Atmospheric Phenomenon" For Nation's Largest Blackout In History

" It always shocks me when people say they are shocked by Donald Trump. The president told us exactly what he was going to do."

“Here We are Again”: Federal District Courts Piling on Injunctions to Stop Trump

There's always a script

Trump Received 92% of Negative Coverage ABC, CBS, NBC in First 100 Days

Worse Than Trudeau: Canadians Should Expect Disaster With Carney In Charge

Finally, Chubby Checker

What To Know About The UK Supreme Court's Ruling On Sex, Gender

Gen Z women abuse stimulants, binge-drink more than any other group, studies find

Former professors explain ‘how to broaden the academic tent’

‘Sun-Dimming’ Aerosol Injections Into Atmosphere for Climate Change

 Al Gore compares Trump administration to Nazi Germany

Democrats' Latest Immigration Propaganda Stunt Just Blew Up in Their Faces

 Upside Down World: European Peace Movement Marches in Support of President Trump as “Anti”-Fascists Rally Against Peace

 Quit gaslighting us — elite groupthink drove the COVID disaster

How Did Having Babies Become Right-Wing?

Harvard Is an Islamist Outpost. For decades it nurtured resentful leftists, and antisemitism united them in a common cause.

 The Ivy League Is Being Hoisted on It's Own Petard

 Saturday Miscellany

 Trump Takes His Biggest Step Yet Toward Restoring Meritocracy

 Biden Era immigration Was the Ultimate Application — and Utterly Predictable Failure — of the Cloward-Piven Strategy

VDH:  What Is Democratic Legality?

 Trump’s First 100 Days: A Scorecard of Wins, Waits, and Wobbles

 Scott Jennings Schools CNN Panelists on Why an Activist Judge’s Arrest Had to Be a ‘Spectacle’

 The Return of the Tradwife

 Trump Is Right to Go After Harvard

Med Schools Replace Medical Merit With Obesity Denial And DEI Doctrine, Watchdog Reports

TGIF: Vladimir, STOP! President Donald Trump, joined by First Lady Melania Trump and the Easter Bunny, delivers remarks during the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn of the White House. We bid adieu to the woke pope. Trump embraces Deportation Nation. Young’uns fall in love with the right. RFK gets a win. Harvard teaches Chinese paramilitants. And much more.

 Rod Dreher: ‘Cry More, Libs’ Is Not a Strategy

New Evidence Against Kilmar Abrego Garcia Drops... And It’s Bad

 Germany Downgrades Growth Outlook, Now Expects Recession For Record 3rd Year, Blames Trump

The People of Carthage Weren’t Who We Thought They Were. The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

The View’s Abortion Lovers Decry Trump Plan to Increase U.S. Birth Rate

 Genetic Factors Predominate in Autism Risk

 Archeologist's Comment On Human Sacrifice Exposes Inanity Of 'Oppression Studies' Mindset

 Princeton’s War on Civil Rights - The university has entrenched a system of racial discrimination—against whites.

 Do Elite Universities Really Wish to Fight the Federal Government?

 Harvard prez ‘didn’t come back to the table’ – decided to sue – after positive talks with Trump admin, Education Secretary Linda McMahon says

Wherefore Harvard?

 UK To Greenlight Experiments To "Dim The Sun" In Bid To Stop Global Warming

 Europe whacks American Big Tech with $797 million fine. Meta cries ‘tariff’

 Congressional Dems’ support from young Americans hits new low with just 23% approval rating

From Louis to Larry: Why Comics Keep Calling Trump ‘Hitler’

 Back With A Vengeance: Nina Jankowicz Calls On Europeans To Oppose The US

High-Level Ukraine Peace Talks Scrapped After Rubio, Witkoff Pull Out Last Minute

 ‘THE MAN WITH NO CARDS TO PLAY’: Americans, Russians and Even Ukrainians TORCH Zelensky for Grandstanding in the Face of a Catastrophe

 Trump Warns Zelenskyy: Accept Peace or Lose the Country

Tyler Cowen has read a lot

 Social work doctoral student who refused to tout social justice flees academia

French “Great Replacement” Philosopher Renaud Camus Banned From Entering UK

The feds’ Penn Station takeover is ALL about protecting taxpayers from NY pols’ seedy schemes

Trump’s DOJ Targets Google, Urges Judge To Force Sale Of Chrome Browser

Weds. Potpourri

MSNBC host Jen Psaki makes stunning admission about liberal network’s coverage of Trump

 Count how many times they say “Maryland Man” or “Maryland Father” in just 90 seconds.

 Scott Jennings: The Elites Sent a Message to Maher -- And Everyone Else

 Colorado Democrats Think You’re an Idiot

 Senator Van Hollen Claims Illegal Aliens Have U.S. “Constitutional Rights”

Dems getting even more unhinged

UK Electrical Grid Rescued by Gas

How alligators are breathing life into Florida's Everglades

How the IPCC Buried the Medieval Warm Period

Democrat Judge Blocks NYC Mayor From Cooperating With ICE

"Inadmissible aliens" graph

 Parents’ Rights Gets Its Day in Court. Plus. . .The Roman family walks to the basketball hoop in their neighborhood. Trans comments cost him his job; now he’s a millionaire. Will Trump’s tariffs kill global MAGA? Another Pete Hegseth group chat snafu. And more

 The City of Oakland, CA Is in the Very Best of Hands

Is the Outrage Farming Working?

What's the deal with NGOs?

 Trump to Bureaucrats: Follow the Law. The president’s memo insists that federal agencies comply with recent Supreme Court rulings.

Can Democrats Pivot to the Center? The party’s activist wing is formidable.

 Casting Off the Oppression of the Race Hustle

" By all appearances, something went wrong. The world is not as we would wish it to be. Economies are stagnating, not growing. What can we do to right these floundering ships of state?"

According to Professor Aaron Benanav, the solution lies in socialist redistribution.

 Hillary ‘the Russia Hoaxer’ Clinton wants to imprison people for ‘propaganda’

 Is Europe Still Fighting Lost Energy Wars?

 Argentina’s Scientists Create Gene-Edited Polo “Super Ponies”

 Eli Lilly finds its weight-loss pill works just as well as Ozempic — and investors are loving it

 Is Transmania Over?

 “Every time I see those cars, I see Elon Musk saluting the country as a Nazi,”

President Trump’s Promising Push To Deregulate Plastics

 When Good Academics Do Bad Things - In a recent speech delivered at the University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law, a Quillette editor describes lessons he learned while investigating the school’s teachers college.

 The glamour and grit of J.K. Rowling

VDH:  Trump’s Counterrevolution Strategy: Flood the Zone, Drain the Swamp

Is Trump breaking the law?

 When Judges Become Prosecutors: The Curious Case of Judge Boasberg

Mass Hearings and Due Process by Zoom: A Modest Judicial Proposal

 A Smug Van Hollen ADMITS Taxpayers Funded His Political Stunt to ‘Sip Margaritas’ with Wife Beater and MS-13 Gang Member in El Salvador

Media’s ‘Maryland man’ narrative collapses, but Democrats still coddle Abrego Garcia

 Confidence In Democratic Leadership Sinks To Record Low As Party Implodes

 MSNBC Suggests Trump Plans to Deport African-Americans

 Rep. Jamie Raskin Promises Retaliation For Those Unleashing ‘Fascist Chaos’ on America When Democrats Return to Power

David Hogg Trashes Democracy As a Political System

 Jewish Governor Gives $5M Grant to Mosque That Called Jews ‘Vilest People’

Tonight is the 250-Year Anniversary of Paul Revere’s Ride – Read His Personal Telling of The Story

 Half The Universe's Matter Was Missing. Astronomers Just Found It.

 These Large, Snake-Like Fish Are Invading the United States—and Authorities Want You to Kill Them

  You’ve Been Lied to About Rats and the Black Death. Recent research suggests that rats may not have played a critical role in the spread of plague. What can that tell us about outbreaknarratives and their importance?

Saturday Miscellany

 New York Just Can't Catch A Break On The March To Climate Utopia

 Washington State Quietly Drops Investigation Into Therapist Who Refused to Succumb to Gender Ideology in Her Practice

 ‘Discriminatory’: Cornell agriculture internship only open to ‘Indian tribe’ students

Katy Perry’s space jaunt was galaxy-level cringe

 Trump vs. the Ivy League Week in Education

 'We Are Not the Same'

For Democrats, how to frame the Abrego Garcia case?

Supreme Court Halts New Trump Deportations Under Wartime Law

Updike update

 Here’s how gossiping is good for your mental health, according to experts

Well, it is a sin

 Kids’ education suffered irreversible damage during COVID pandemic lockdowns – new book holds media, pols accountable

Texas will be the 16th state to endorse universal school choice

TGIF: Homegrown Criminals - Republicans head to El Salvador, Bernie goes to Coachella, Trump sets his sights on Harvard, the White House hosts Holy Week, RFK Jr. gets to the bottom of autism, and Chinese ‘peasants’ clap back.

 Everything is racist at PBS

 Democrat senator ignites fury as he 'sips margaritas' with deported illegal in El Salvador

David Brooks wants to stop Trump

He's unclear about why

 Politico: Guess Where Voters Are Getting Tired of La Résistance?

 I Shan't Sleep a Wink Tonight Knowing How We Have Disappointed Europe

Nice place to visit...

Vienna schools now majority Muslim

 Lexington and Concord at 250

 ‘Colonial dysphoria’ causes ‘distress’ for minority students, professor says

 Teen Drowns In Rip Current At A South Florida Beach During Annual Spring Break Tourism Surge

Ocean swimmers need to know

 People with intellectual humility tend to handle relationship conflicts better, new study finds

 Are Foreigners Entitled To The Same Protest Rights As Natural American Citizens?

 Harvard’s president rejected Trump’s demands. Here’s how other university leaders have responded to the White House

 AI Bot Flips Wall Street on Its Head

Guardian:  The Blue Origin flight showcased the utter defeat of American feminism

 Karmelo Anthony’s family adds a new ride to list of luxuries they’re buying after raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars under pretense of ‘legal defense’

 Tax Day Truth Bomb: Where Your Climate Dollars Really Went

 Trying To Figure Out How Much Of The Government Grants Goes To Left-Wing Causes And Propaganda

 UK Supreme Court Rules A Trans-Woman Is Not A Woman

"' New York Attorney General Letitia James — who infamously declared that “no one is above the law” when she was targeting Donald Trump — was hit with a federal criminal referral for instances of alleged mortgage fraud on Tuesday, according to a letter obtained by The Post"

Potpourri

Cody Balmer’s firebomb attack on Pa. Gov. Josh Shapiro driven by antisemitism, ‘what he wants to do to Palestinian people’

More by mental illness, it seems

 You'll Never Believe What Slow Learners the Democrats Are

 Trump Turns Off the ‘Disinformation’ Spigot. Plus. . .Is Trump defying the Supreme Court? Jed Rubenfeld says: Hold on a minute. Should Luigi Mangione get the death penalty? We battle it out. Ross Douthat makes the rational case for faith. And more.

 Democrat Sen Chris Van Hollen Suffers Humiliating Rejection After Flying to El Salvador to Meet with Alleged MS-13 Gang Member Abrego Garcia

Donald Trump is right to think of Greenland as an area of potentially dangerous vulnerability for the U.S.

 "It Doesn't Fit In With Dutch Culture!" - Conservative MPs Call For Ban On Amplified Islamic Calls To Prayer

 JD Vance: My message to Europe is America doesn’t want a vassal continent

 Is Civil War Coming to Europe?

 Would a couples therapist ever tell you to break up?

 Right-Hegel Meets Left-Hegel - The misreading of Hegel that Alexandre Kojève shared with Leo Strauss

 Trump vs. Harvard. Plus. . .

 How Much Does Each US Wealth Bracket Pay In Income Taxes?

Bernie Sanders at Coachella shows time is not on the Democrats’ side. The optics looked like a lefty senior citizen in a desperate attempt to win back the love of a nihilistic, Bushwick-dwelling grandchild

 Democrat Rep. Laura Friedman Says the Quiet Part Out Loud — Admits House Democrats Meet “Every Single Week” with Far-Left AGs to Plot Lawfare Against Trump Agenda

 Why Progressives Increasingly Support Violence - A new survey finds more than half of left-wing respondents believe assassinating Donald Trump could be justified.

 Newsom Signs Bill to Cover Free Healthcare for Illegal Immigrants

The Case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

How Sweden’s multicultural dream went fatally wrong. Child soldiers, gang violence and murders for hire blight the once-famously peaceful country, journalist Diamant Salihu tells The Telegraph 

 The MAGA War on Ukraine - Why does so much of the US Right hate a country valiantly resisting a war of aggression?

Easter menus from New York’s restaurant past

Think reptiles like crocodiles and caimans are slow learners? It’s probably because you’re human.

Women unconsciously tune into infant distress, regardless of parental status, study finds

Dave Portnoy unloads on ‘lazy, entitled’ Gen Z as they take over the workplace

The Climate Crisis Con Game

Stanford Activists Charged with Felonies for Building Takeover

Trump Authorizes Military Occupation Of Public Land Along Southern Border To Repel Migrant ‘Invasions’

Trump’s aggressive approach to border pays off

CDC Staff Cuts Alarm Anti-Gun Advocates

All Eyes on Vance as Turmoil Over Gutting USAID Grows

Are the Democrats drifting further Left?

CNN Calls Poll 'Shocking' as GOP, Dems Tie on Empathy

Here’s What Blew Bill Maher’s Mind After Having Dinner With Trump

Kamala Harris mocked for reported interest in think tank creation: ‘The Coconut Tree Institute’

The Future of Foreign Aid

David Stockman On Why The Houthis Aren't America's Problem

The EU Thinks It Can Rob America Blind

The Most Important 4-Minutes On America's Middle East Wars We Have Ever Heard

Ten Environmentalist Myths

Dysfunctional parenting may lead to adult problems through personality traits like low conscientiousness

Feds’ $4.6B furniture splurge is beyond-telling abuse of taxpayer funds

California's Disastrously Run College Financial Aid Program Is Filled With Fake 'ChatGPT' Students

Saturday Miscellany

Democrats continue to run 2024 playbook, apparently unaware they have already lost

The lesson of DOGE is that there is an enormous amount of waste and fraud in everything the government does.

U.K. Educators Rewrite History to Include Gender Ideology Nonsense

 America Poured Billions into DEI Initiatives. Who Benefited?

Bill Maher Finally TELLS ALL About His Meeting at the White House With President Trump (VIDEO)

High Tax + High Welfare + Low Defence = European Good Life Threatened by Trump

San Francisco Giant? A Towering Metallic Naked Female Statue Will Now Greet Ferry Visitors in CA City

Nice

Not back from extinction

It's a simulacrum

Teachers Need To Ditch Their Union

RFK Jr. Says HHS Will Determine the Cause of Autism by September

But I can tell you today: Genetic/developmental errors

FDA reverses course on telework after layoffs and resignations threaten basic operations

TGIF: Yippy and Afraid - Americans are sent
to sweatshops, Gen Z goes to church, Mississippi becomes the education
capital of the world, real showers are back, our military is big again,
and much, much more.

DOGE Makes Three Major Findings Regarding Unemployment Benefits Fraud, Including One Discovery That Left Elon
Musk Shocked: “So Crazy I Had to Read It Several Times”

A Pragmatic Trump

 Swiss Pharma Company Announces $23 Billion U.S. Investment Days After Trump Pledged ‘Major Tariff’ on Drug Imports

Democrats Desperately Fight Against Citizenship Requirement to Vote

House Passes SAVE Act, Which Requires Proof of Citizenship to Register to Vote, It also requires “states to remove non-citizens from existing voter rolls, while giving them necessary tools to do so.”

AfD Tops Polls For First Time In History As Merz's Public Support For Chancellor Plummets

Terrorist Sympathizers Swarmed Grand Central Station

The American Jacobin: How Some On The Left Have Found Release In An Age Of Rage

New Research Confirms Standardized Tests Are Predictor Of 'College Success - Without Bias'

‘No Specific Memory’: Columbia University’s Armstrong Tells Feds She
Can’t Recall Specifics of Any Anti-Semitic Incident on Campus. Armstrong will now take sabbatical to 'spend time with family,' university says

Jews for Hamas

Nashville Police Lied to the Public About Transgender Killer Audrey Hale's Motivations

Let’s Kill the Republicans

VDH:  Don’t Like Trump’s Plan for the Economy? Let’s Hear Yours

President Trump’s Energy Dominance Agenda Leaves Climate Juggernaut on Brink of Collapse

Trump Makes a Huge Move Against Illegal Immigrants

The economics of Statecraft

Younger People Don’t Want to Work in Manufacturing

Wanting or Not Wanting to Work in Factories Doesn't Matter

It was Chinese imports that finally drove most US factories out of
business, taking much of our remaining industrial base with them.

By selling things Americans want

Gov Workers Can’t Figure Out How to Work in an Office Anymore

Hey Europe - Wake up

Why we can’t squash the common cold, even after 100 years of studying it

Benjamin Franklin’s Scandalous Praise of Vanity

This Nonprofit Got $22 Million in Government Grants to Teach Kids About Sex Toys

Protesting what?

An obituary for the greatest mass migration fiasco in American history.

Real Mann of Science™ Told to Pay National Review Legal Fees STAT

 Sedition in Rochester, New York - Sedition is ‘conduct or speech
inciting people to rebel against the authority of a state.’ That is
exactly what the concept of sanctuary cities represents.

Now It Can Be Told: "Reporters" Writing About Biden's Mental Decline Now
Admit That Everyone In DC Knew He Had "Lost a Step" In 2020, But For
Some Reason Never Reported It Until Biden Had Retired from Politics

Bill Maher Had This Acute Observation About Trump

Today's Boogeyman Is Elon Musk

Don’t be misled about what’s driving our budget deficit

European Union offers to remove industrial tariffs on US goods: ‘Ready for a good deal’

Scott Bessent is right. Cheap goods are not the American dream

Trump’s focus isn’t on the stock market; it’s on the 10-year bond market.