Superb SamuelGoldman review of Harvey Mansfield's "The Rise and Fall of Rational Control" in WSJ Books Section. Self-recommending! wsj.com/arts-culture/b…

Mehdi Mahmoudian, the co-writer of Jafar Panahi’s Oscar-nominated political drama “It Was Just An Accident,” was arrested in Tehran on Saturday after endorsing a statement denouncing the actions of Ali Khamenei, the head of the Islamic Republic of Iran. variety.com/2026/film/news…

If anyone is surprised by this, then you really haven't been paying attention to Gabbard in the past 10 years. Putting her as the Director of National Intelligence was a terrible terrible mistake by Trump from the beginning

"Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is systematically eroding a vaccination infrastructure that has saved countless children from death and deformity. After a quarter-century, America is on the verge of losing its measles elimination status. Now he’s

The CIA has shuttered The World Factbook. It had been published and used as a reference source by journalists, teachers, students, and travelers since 1962. cia.gov/stories/story/…

For people outside Canada, please be aware that very few of us actually support this stuff. It’s a status-seeking hobby for rich white people. (Occasionally, they become public figures and embarrass the rest of us like this.)

Look, maybe it's a coincidence. But it's REALLY hard to ignore that payroll growth immediately flatlined more or less immediately after liberation day.

Three telling charts from today's BLS data re the 2025 US job market (via Heather Long, Kate Generelli, Jed Kolko):

A lot of crazy people contact the FBI. Agents know how to evaluate their claims. But when the government releases FBI files to the public, it makes other people crazier.

This is one of the most important pieces I've read in ages. Adding to its credibility: its author, Tyler Austin Harper, is a former humanities prof, a man of the Left, and, given that the piece's villain is the rich black woman who runs Mellon, is himself black. That's integrity!