1)“America at 250: Museum or Nation?” (James Thorne, Real Clear Politics)
From the article — As Oswald Spengler warned, civilizations decay when faith gives way to technique, politics becomes administration, and ruling classes lose the will to defend what made their civilization worth inheriting. The European Union offers the modern template: technocracy without vigor, regulation without purpose, procedure without renewal. It manages decline; it cannot reverse it.
The United States has been moving in that direction for years: deindustrialization, porous borders, elite detachment, strategic drift, and a governing class more comfortable managing national weakening than confronting it. Donald Trump recognized that decay earlier than most – and said plainly that it was a choice. A nation cannot endure if it exports its industry, dilutes its sovereignty, and mistakes energy dependence for moral progress.
Yet America retains a resource Spengler underestimated: the American jeremiad. A tradition that treats national failure not as proof the country is a fraud, but as evidence it has betrayed a real promise, and must recover it. Trump speaks that language. His deepest offense to the caretakers of decline is simple: He refuses to treat “a more perfect Union” as a museum piece. He treats it as a mandate.
That is why the coming midterms matter. They are not an intermission between presidential contests; they are a referendum on whether reversal continues or authority returns to the managers of exhaustion. The choice is stark: Retire “a more perfect Union” to the glass case, or act as if we still intend to build it..”
2) “Despite The Troubling Rise Of Jew-hatred, The News Media Is Not Reining In Its Propaganda. They’re Doubling Down.” (Breanna Claussen, Harbinger’s Daily)
From the article — The Jewish people in the United States and across the globe no longer feel safe leaving their homes wearing anything overtly Jewish—and the media has played no small role in crafting this hostility through the vicious demonization of the Jewish State and the promotion of anti-Jewish blood libels. Despite the troubling rise of Jew-hatred in our culture, the news media is not reining in its propaganda—they’re doubling down.
Just last week, the Israeli foreign ministry reacted to a disturbing article published by the New York Times, calling it “one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press.” The column accused Israel of ferocious sexual violence against Palestinians, including a warped claim that the Israeli guards had trained dogs to violate arab prisoners. One particularly egregious quote from the article insisted: “The horrific abuse inflicted on Israeli women on Oct. 7 now happens to Palestinians day after day.”
Israel responded to the fabricated accusation harshly, “In an unfathomable inversion of reality, and through an endless stream of baseless lies, [New York Times] propagandist Nicholas Kristof turns the victim into the accused. Israel – whose citizens were the victims of the most horrific sexual crimes committed by Hamas on October 7, and whose hostages were later subjected to further sexual abuse – is portrayed as the guilty party. This publication is no coincidence. It is part of a false and well-orchestrated anti-Israel campaign.”
Related articles: “EU Sanctions Israel, Welcomes Taliban” (Daniel Greenfield, Trajectories)…“Is Europe Ending Up as One Big No-Go Zone?” (Robert Williams, Gatestone Institute)…“Why do we accept this Muslim assault on our faith?” (Gillian Dymond, TCW)
3) “Justice Thomas: Courage in Defense of Natural Law Constitutionalism” (John C. Eastman, American Mind)
From the article — Justice Clarence Thomas’s recent speech at the University of Texas was vintage Thomas: deeply reflective, historically grounded, and unapologetically devoted to first principles. At a moment when many public officials seek safety in ambiguity, Thomas instead offered moral clarity. He spoke not merely as a jurist, but as a statesman concerned with the long-term health of the American republic. In doing so, he echoed themes long championed by scholars associated with the Claremont Institute: the primacy of natural rights, the centrality of the Declaration of Independence, and the necessity of civic courage in preserving constitutional government.
Thomas’s remarks were particularly striking because they resisted the fashionable reduction of constitutional interpretation to technocratic expertise or evolving social consensus. Instead, he returned repeatedly to the enduring truths that undergird the American experiment. The Constitution, in Thomas’s telling, is not simply a procedural document or a malleable framework for administrative governance. It is the institutional embodiment of a moral and political philosophy rooted in the self-evident truths proclaimed in 1776.
4) “America: The Real Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness)
From the article — One American view of China—now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd—is that the communist colossus will be forever ascendant, with continued astonishing levels of food production, ship construction, and industrial output. In this pessimistic view, China will soon replace America as the world’s predominant power. We are, supposedly, like an exhausted British Empire circa 1945, and China is the new version of the postwar American powerhouse.
Yet even Beijing’s miraculous 30-year leap out of poverty into first-world affluence and Westernized power is hardly the same as parity with the US. In truth, Trump held almost all the cards at the current summit and will do so again when Xi Jinping visits the US this autumn. According to nearly every historical measure of power, the US leads China by sizable margins—in wealth, economic output, fuel, food, and military strength.
China has roughly four times the population of the US, but produces only about 60 percent of our total GDP. A crude way of looking at this asymmetry is that one US citizen accounts for 40 percent more goods and services than his four Chinese counterparts. Americans enjoy a per capita GDP (roughly $95,000) over six times higher than China’s (roughly $15,000).
Related article: “Sitting by the river: China is not a competitor, it is a predator” (Konstantinos Bogdanos, Brussels Signal)
5) “The AI Elite Are Getting Rich While the Rest of Us Get Angry — and Afraid” (Robert Maginnis, Washington Stand)
From the article — Consider two snapshots of America in 2026. Sam Altman — CEO of OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT — holds a personal fortune estimated at $3.3 billion, a 21-acre Hawaii estate listed at $49 million, a $27 million San Francisco mansion, and a 950-acre Napa Valley ranch. His company recently raised $122 billion at an $852 billion valuation. Standing before BlackRock’s U.S. Infrastructure Summit, Altman declared that intelligence is now “a utility, like electricity or water” — and that people will buy it from his company on a meter.
Now consider a different American. In a BuzzFeed account published last October, one of hundreds of workers described the fallout in eleven words that say more than any policy brief could: “They automated my job for less than $1,000 a year. Now, I bartend and drive school buses to make ends meet.”
That gap — between the man pricing intelligence like a utility from his Napa ranch and the man driving a school bus to pay rent — is not an accident of the market. It is a design feature of an industry that has accumulated staggering wealth while offloading its consequences onto Americans who had no seat at the table when the decisions were made. The backlash building across this country should surprise no one.
Other Excellent Articles:
* “More Voter Fraud Charges Scream For The Senate To Pass The SAVE America Act” (M.D. Kittle, Federalist)
* “Nebraska Just Took a Sledgehammer to the ESG Machine Behind Corporate America” (Ben Smith, Red State)
* “Would New Jersey Bill Authorize Slow-Motion Euthanasia of Dementia Patients?” (Wesley J. Smith, National Review)
* “Cuba Falling: Today Is ‘the Beginning of the End’ and Rubio’s Powerful Message” (Sarah Anderson, Red State)
* “Why Young Women Fear Men: How Gen Z Women Developed an Alarmingly Jaundiced View of the Opposite Sex” (Georgina Mumford, spiked!)