In The New Criterion, Victor Davis Hanson compares the forces behind the first and second elections of Donald Trump and finds them categorically different. The first election aimed to halt America’s perceived leftward drift and overall deterioration; the second intends to roll it back entirely, leading Hanson to describe the second Trump term as a counter-revolution. But, warns Hanson, the challenges this time are also much more formidable.

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


