Here's @JonahGoldberg's wonderful conversation with me about my new book The Primate Myth. @thedispatch open.substack.com/pub/jonath…

The sheer scale of a trillion dollars can be hard to comprehend. Let me put it in perspective. You would be able to buy 42 miles of high speed rail in California with that much money.

This is the @nytimes' top story. Does this seem like a top story to anyone who is not actually a full-times Times employee?

This is the version of my recent Substack about @ScottPelley and @60Minutes as this appeared in the @FreeBeacon. There is no paywall. It's free to read. freebeacon.com/media/scott-p…

Great essay that's absolutely worth reading. Note that it has smart things to say about secular Jewish radicals as well as secular Muslim radicals.

By all reports, she has not been seen in public in some time. This seems to be true.

My latest Substack looks at how out of control inflation is becoming in Iran. If we did just reach a deal to end our current fighting with them, this may have played as large a role as our most recent bombing runs did. open.substack.com/pub/jonath…

On June 12th, 1921, Mikhail Tukhachevsky, commander of the Soviet 7th Army, used chemical weapons to suppress the Tambov peasant rebellion. The suppression killed 15,000 peasants. Over 50,000 more were interned in work camps. He was later made Marshal of the Soviet Union. And even later was killed in the Red Army Purge.

Wow.

"Liberals" for censorship. The 19th Century weeps.

SCOOP: Hamas Turns Gaza Hospitals and Schools Into Torture Chambers as It Reestablishes Police State -- Gazans inside Strip Describe Horrific Interrogations, Beatings freebeacon.com/israel/exclus…

Mohsen Mahdawi is 34 years old. He first enrolled at Birzeit University in the West Bank in 2008 and studied there for six years. In 2018 he enrolled as an undergraduate at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He stayed there until 2021, and never earned a credential despite enrolling as a seventh year senior and being a full time student there for four years. Despite this extremely suspicious academic record, he was admitted as a transfer to Columbia University — a school which rejects over 97% of applicants — where he attended as an undergraduate for another four years. Columbia’s rules explicitly state that students must be progressing toward an on-time graduation, but they accepted Mahdawi as an eleventh year undergraduate and allowed him to remain a student in good standing even though he was evidently not maintaining a full course load. His student status was a pretext; he was acting as a full-time anti-American, anti-Jewish and pro-terrorism activist. Since he claims to be a Palestinian refugee, it is unclear who was paying his tuition or providing for his rent and expenses in New York City while he was engaged in subverting American institutions. He finally earned a bachelor’s degree in May 2025 from one of the top five American universities after 17 years as an undergraduate and was accepted to a master’s program at Columbia even though the State Department was already trying to deport him on national security grounds. Democrats at every level fought hard to keep him in the country.

If Platner ever had a Confederate flag tattoo would he ever have been the nominee? Of course not. It would have been unthinkable. Ponder why *that* would be instantly disqualifying for Democrats but why a Nazi SS insignia isn’t. It’s unsettling.

These nepo baby and Brown-educated men look at Graham Platner and see a real man. They see his oystering hobby (he’s on disability and the much ballyhooed oyster farm makes no money), his serial philandering, his demeaning and aggressive behavior towards women, his racist Reddit commentary, and his Nazi tattoo as the signifiers of a traditional masculinity and working class vibe they haven’t been exposed to for a long time in the party of MeToo and I’m With Her and the Kamala Campaign O’ Joy. They imagine they keep losing and losing men because of the Democrats’ “HR Lady” politics. Graham Platner is a rejection of the HR lady, we are told by progressive men who look like human pocket protectors. His kind of messiness is what will bring men back to the party. It’s tragic. Because of course, what real men know is that masculinity is all about restraint. It’s about self regulation. It’s about being a defender and a protector—not someone who joins the military because they want to kill, and then mocks veterans when they get out. It’s about protecting the vulnerable—not joining a sexting site like Kik where kids are routinely exploited. It’s about understanding your power and your strength—not using them against women and leaving bruises. It’s about judgment and reliability—not cheating for your entire marriage. It’s about standing on your own two feet, not living off your parents and the government. And it’s about fighting fascism—not getting a Nazi tattoo. batya-us.com/p/democrats-thi…

Russia: 75% divorce rate. Collapsed birth rates. Sky-high alcoholism, sex-trafficking, and domestic abuse. Very low church attendance. The only way you can say Russia isn’t in sharper decline is if you’re being paid to say that. Coincidently, know the op when you see it.

My latest Substack looks at some stories that the mainstream media have missed. These include Russian penetration of Ireland, book banning, abortion, @platnerforsenate and #steroid use. Please read. @newenglishreview open.substack.com/pub/jonath…

Spike Lee was signed up, but he had some other engagement involving a Frenchman.

Anti-drone nets have been erected near Putin's residence in the Novgorod region. Something is going terribly wrong with Putin's war in three days. 😂😂😂

It didn't start on October 7.

Ukrainian intelligence services have assassinated a Russian lieutenant general in a car bombing assassination in Blaisha Moscow. Wow…

Here's something many people don't know about me - Before I publicly dissected the long list of problems in the 1619 Project, I contacted the New York Times through their official channels to request a series of corrections to unambiguous factual errors in its content. The editor - Jake Silverstein - brushed me off and refused any correction - a pattern he also exhibited toward other critics from across the spectrum. Before I publicly broke the story about Kevin Kruse's plagiarism in Reason, I contacted Princeton's academic integrity officer and alerted him to the problems I had found, giving them a chance to respond and address it internally. They ignored my email and later claimed to have lost my email after I went public. Before I published my findings on Quinn Slobodian's habitual manipulation of source materials to alter its plain meaning through misquotation, I submitted an article to Contemporary European History (the journal where the worst examples appeared), highlighting the problems with the passages and asking for a correction through their official process. They desk-rejected it, brushed me off, and falsely claimed that Slobodian's piece had been thoroughly vetted in peer review. In fact, one of their own referees had flagged the same problems over a year earlier and recommended rejection of the article. Before I published an expose on Nancy MacLean & Sandy Darity's similar manipulation of W.H. Hutt quotations in their article for History of Economics Review, I (along with 2 coauthors) submitted a response comment to this journal asking for a correction through its official processes. The editor gave us a complete runaround where he imposed an arbitrary length limit requiring us to cut the content, sent the trimmed version to a referee, then rejected the piece because the referee said we didn't sufficiently address the very same things we were forced by the editor to cut. When I then asked the editor to issue a simple corrigendum to the most egregious misquotation (one that transformed Hutt's explicit attack on the racism of white Afrikaners into a defense of Apartheid), he refused and tried to pass it off as a difference of "interpretation." Before I published an expose of a leading covid masking model in the Wall Street Journal, I sent a comment to the medical journal that published it alerting them to a math error that changed their entire set of results. The journal acknowledged the error was real but refused to publish my piece on the grounds that the "next release" of the model would be updated to reflect it - even as politicians up to and including Joe Biden were trumpeting the erroneous results all over the news.