A few words to explain how & why Israel's security establishment (Intel/ Security/ I. Defense Forces) failed to prevent the deadly incursion--including the recurrent delusion (eg 17,000 labor permits had just been issued for Gaza residents) city-journal.org/article/techno…

For those who read Finnish, an excellent summary of the key points from my latest piece for ⁦City Journal⁩ published by ⁦Heikki Hakala⁩. (I don’t read Finnish so it was GoogleTranslate for me…). Thanks Heikki. verkkouutiset.fi/a/huippututkij…

Texas Triumphant!

OH MY GOSH YES!!

Mic drop from the MVP.

"The word 'Harvard' may impress people around here, but to an American, it means one thing only: decline." x.com/elianayjohnson…

Repost for a chance to win this signed Nathan Eovaldi baseball and World Series Champions hat!

Repost for a chance to win this signed Nathaniel Lowe baseball and World Series Champions hat!

Merry Christmas from the World Champs!

Montgomery County Public Schools calls it "restorative justice." In practice, it means cruelty runs wild. moderatelymoco.com/opinion-failin…

Is this a book ban, Montgomery County Public Libraries (MD)? I wrote half of Family Unfriendly as a resident of Montgomery County. I even praise their library system in the book. I'd love to know why, when a current resident asks for the library to stock it, the librarians flatly so NO.

BREAKING: NPR CEO tells the Carnegie Endowment that she wants to have "active and robust debate in the newsroom," just two days after she suspended Uri Berliner for trying to spark an active and robust debate in the newsroom. She is a fraud.

"Wildcat," a new biopic about Flannery O'Connor, dares to tackle the heavy metal of the Southern writer's Catholic faith—instead of defaulting to tired themes like science and sisterhood—like so many other Catholic films of late. Via Nora Kenney Mittiga 🎀☀️☕️: city-journal.org/article/flanne…

Congratulations Joe Picozzi !! "Joe Picozzi, 29, will become the first Republican state senator to represent Philadelphia in more than two decades, according to the Associated Press."

Also aged fairly well

Chris Kofinis, former chief of staff to Sen. Joe Manchin III, to WaPo:

America has lost a journalistic legend with the passing of Lance Morrow. Morrow was a longtime contributor to City Journal and friend to many CJ staff, and we’re honoring him by sharing some of our favorite articles and anecdotes.

City Journal's editors and contributors have covered California's wildfire problems for years. We'll be rounding up some of our sharpest takes, past and present, throughout the day.

The latest City Journal on the LA fires, from Samuel Hammond 🦉.

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