Victor Davis Hanson draws parallels between the current left-wing violence aimed at derailing the Trump Administration’s policies and the bitter, deadly struggle over Kansas Territory before the Civil War. Then, as now, writes Hanson at American Greatness, Democrats and their allies used threats and blood to pursue a goal – making Kansas a slave state – that they couldn’t achieve via the ballot box. Then, it led to 600,000 deaths.

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.


