Think Past the Establishment
America once celebrated the lone juror willing to stand against eleven others. After a single holdout refused to excuse Lindsay Clancy for killing her three children, fellow jurors went on television to blame him, the defense attorney attacked him publicly and the media began digging into his background. The lone juror did his duty. The campaign to punish him threatens one of the jury system’s most important protections.
Four historic women’s colleges face federal complaints alleging that they misrepresent themselves as single-sex institutions while admitting biological men. Agnes Scott, Bryn Mawr, Stephens and Wesleyan receive federal funding while maintaining policies that permit transgender women to enter women’s housing, bathrooms and athletic programs. The complaints ask whether institutions can retain the legal privileges of women’s colleges after abandoning a sex-based admissions standard.
Some California stations are posting diesel at $9.99 a gallon—the highest price their signs can display—while others may be using that number to signal that they have no diesel left. Ron Paul connects the shortages and soaring prices to wars disrupting global energy supplies. Because diesel powers trucks, farms and construction equipment, the damage will not stop at the pump: it will move through nearly everything Americans buy.
The Supreme Court refused to let the Postal Service enforce new mail-ballot requirements before the midterms, leaving a lower-court injunction in place. The rules would have required states to submit voter lists and use approved envelopes with unique barcodes. Justice Brett Kavanaugh said the policy may fall within postal authority but cannot reasonably be implemented this close to the election. The order blocks the rules for now; it is not a final ruling on their legality.
Sweden’s center-right government drove shootings down dramatically but still fell narrowly short of a parliamentary majority. Meanwhile, the Social Democrats responded by adopting much of the Right’s agenda on immigration, crime and national identity. Whatever government emerges, the election shows how effective conservative governance can change a country’s political direction—even when voters do not deliver the governing coalition a decisive victory.
Conservatives cannot preserve a culture that has already discarded too much worth conserving. William S. Lind argues that renewal requires restoring institutions and habits that once worked: trustworthy elections, disciplined schools, strong families, religious belief, thrift, productive work and responsibility toward one’s neighbors. His larger claim is that liberty and prosperity rest upon a moral culture they cannot create by themselves. When those foundations collapse, political victories can slow the decline but cannot reverse it. Conservatism must become a movement of restoration—recovering the inherited standards that made a free and flourishing country possible.