A year-and-a-half after wildfires destroyed more than 2,000 homes on the Hawaiian island of Maui, just six have been rebuilt. In City Journal, Alex Hu explains how local elected officials determined to close Hawaii off from the rest of the world have brought restoration to a standstill. “Radical councilmembers have called their pro-building colleagues names like ‘colonizer’…and advocated for secession from the United States,” he writes of the deadlock.

Palestinian Culture: Unique in its Own Destructive Way
Although the Palestinian Authority enjoys an array of cultural departments and programs, A.J. Caschetta in Jewish World Review finds that all of it – art, education, literature, poetry, music, education and film – is oriented to two goals: the vilification of Jews and the destruction of Israel. Caschetta notes this is in sharp contrast to Arab and Muslim traditions, which include myriad aesthetically normal cultural works. Palestinianism, Caschetta finds, is “a very sick culture”, driven by resentment and fuelled by hate.


