The Revenge of El Jabato

Jonah Goldberg

Dear Reader (including exalted knights of the sword of covfefe),

Greetings from Southern California. Some of you may remember that I’m out here doing a little father-daughter adventuring. I’ll save those details for the end. Now that the suits have robbed this “news”letter of even the pretense of newsletteriness, I feel like cluttering this up with personal details at the top is no longer justifiable. So, we’ll just have to see if there’s time to get to my take on the eclipse, the canine update, the fact that today is my 16th wedding anniversary, or that guy I stabbed outside the Peking Restaurant in Westminster, Calif., (they have fantastic dumplings, btw). Thanks a lot, suits.

I don’t want to sound disgruntled about how calling this a “news”letter is even less of a nomer than it was before. I would like it to go beknownst to the reader that I am in fact quite gruntled this morning. In fact, I am so overflowing with feck and gruntle, it is my intention to have my prose seem as choate and ...

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Being a Good ‘Ally’ Will Destroy the ACLU

Elliot Kaufman

At 1:49 p.m. on Wednesday, the ACLU put out one of those feel-good messages that doesn’t really mean anything: This is the future that ACLU members want. pic.twitter.com/bAIwuheEco — ACLU...

Professor’s Facebook Rant: ‘All Republicans’ are ‘Racist’ and ‘Scum’

Katherine Timpf

Professor’s Facebook Rant: ‘All Republicans’ are ‘Racist’ and ‘Scum’

Coach Prays, Ninth Circuit Says No — Blame Supreme Court Conservatives

David French

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that a high-school football coach, Joseph Kennedy, had no First Amendment right to kneel and briefly pray at the 50-yard line after a football...

The Democrats Suddenly Need Menendez

Jonathan S. Tobin

It seems like such a long time ago. Back in the early months of 2015, Democratic leaders could barely contain their glee at news that one of their own was in legal trouble. Indeed, as far as...

The Old Western Disease

Jonah Goldberg

The virus seems to be approaching its breakout phase. We could be looking at a full-scale epidemic here. Zika? Ebola? Flu? Nope. We don’t have a great word for this sickness yet....

California Threatens Jail Time for Dissenters from the New Transgender Dogma

Elliot Kaufman

California may see itself as a leader on criminal-justice reform, but it is on its way to creating a whole new class of criminals: citizens who use “him” to refer to a man and “her” for a...

How the West Won: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity

Rodney Stark

'Exposes gaping holes in the prevailing narrative...Demolishes several widespread mythologies about the West’s development...Stark is happy to engage in the deeply politically incorrect exercise of comparing developments in the West to that of other civilizations.' - Samuel Gregg, Crisis Magazine

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