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.
Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.
