Defending football’s most controversial play, Christopher Jacobs in The Federalist argues the NFL should reject calls to ban the “tush-push” on safety grounds. The play, in which running backs shove their quarterback from behind to gain a crucial yard or two, “resulted in exactly zero injuries last season.” As Jacobs points out, the more likely reason for the proposed ban is simple envy, as the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles are masters of the move.

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.


