Taking a close look at vice-presidential candidate Tim Walz’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, Jude Russo considers Walz’s self-identification as a humble school teacher who understands the interests of the average family. Don’t be fooled by his claims to ordinariness, Russo warns in The American Conservative: “The fanaticism of the public school teacher is rivaled only by that of the unionized transit official.”
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.
