Very happy to share my first article at @amconmag Why all the great excommunications have been about foreign policy: theamericanconservative.com/…

The oil argument for why we should remain deeply engaged in the Middle East is dead. *All* ME oil supply went offline for 4 months (with many weeks of limited flow still to come), and even that nightmare scenario wasn't as bad as many feared. Get out. defensepriorities.org/report…

The same people attacking Trump making a tentative peace deal with the Iranians are the exact same people who were dictating who was or wasn't MAGA two weeks ago

Watching a video about book prices going up and this YouTuber is comparing book prices to minimum wage I wonder if he may be a bit biased

It was FDR who first made it a practice to subsidize bad artists instead of forcing them to get real jobs.

Guy who thinks Tren de Aragua is a Venezuelan body building group

Thinking of starting a book club to read books from the Old Right to the New: To read classic books in both the libertarian and American conservative movement. I need an excuse to pick up more books and a stick (deadlines) to keep me going.

I am a simple man, I want an Eames lounge chair and ottoman and bookshelves all around me so I can read my books

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Not the best Pretzels though!

Mahmous Khalil was a litmus test

European Central Bank Hikes Rates, In an Iran War First The ECB becomes the first major central bank to raise rates to combat renewed inflation @realDavidBJr @amconmag theamericanconservative.com/…

Just used Claude Fable to update the little app I threw together for sorting my library! Now it has a Reading Lists tab, a citation generator (for MLA, APA, and Chicago), updated sorting, and includes Records and CDs for album collections. I used 90% of my 5-hour limit to make sure it was forwards-compatible with the only version so if you were to update you wouldn't lose your library collection. It did it one prompt, very cool!

Reminder that Buckley was not vindicated in his support of Vietnam while Vidal was vindicated for his disdain for it

Now that Bari Weiss fired Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes, who's going to do the hard-hitting journalism on secret Russian microwave weapons that cause "Havana syndrome," with symptoms like forgetfulness, dizziness, and feeling sad?

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.

What this means is forever bail outs of unproductive companies who will have no incentive to change or get better.

I hate to tell you this but... the America First Committee believed what this cartoon is saying about Roosevelt and no, it was not "siding with Imperial Japan"

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