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.
It Was Nice While it Lasted
Victor Davis Hanson in Jewish World Review condenses his scenario for Western civilization’s imminent demise into 700 words. The West’s fatal arrogance, Hanson argues, has prevented it from repulsing the four horsemen of its own apocalypse: global warming hysterics, sexually liberalized (and largely childless) lifestyles, unrestricted illegal immigration and a descent into tribalism driven by divisive ideologies like DEI. Despite all that, Hanson also offers the outlines of a solution.
