Think Past the Establishment
America responded to September 11 as though terrorism were principally a military problem that could be solved by removing regimes, building democratic institutions and improving material conditions. That strategy failed to take seriously the religious beliefs and civilizational ambitions motivating Islamist movements.
President Trump says a Republican midterm victory would clear the way for $5,000 payments to Americans, presenting the checks as a return of tariff revenue and government savings.
Russian attacks and sabotage directed at Ukraine’s European supporters are increasing fears of a direct NATO confrontation. Allowing deeper Ukrainian strikes inside Russia may appear to strengthen deterrence, but it also places Moscow under greater pressure to retaliate against the Western governments supplying weapons and intelligence.
A British court has ordered nutrition and hydration withdrawn from Fahim, a 28-year-old brain-injured man whose mother was prevented from seeing him for 16 months.
The War on Poverty offered assistance through rules that often penalized marriage and made government support a substitute for fathers. Repairing the damage requires policies that stop treating intact families as financially disadvantageous and recognize marriage as a primary defense against generational poverty.
Charlie Kirk’s assassination briefly united the Right around demands for a sweeping political reckoning. Many expected his death to become the moment when the Trump administration finally crushed the institutions and organizations they blamed for left-wing violence.