Brian Anderson

All those Knicks fans arrested last night for going a little too crazy should just tell the judge they were shoplifting & harassing Jews & they’ll be released with no charges.

In a big win for transparency, the NAEP is expanding state-level data to 12th-grade math/reading and adding 8th/12th-grade civics. Parents and policymakers can finally compare outcomes across states and see what works best. The big divide: school choice and rigorous standards vs. blue-state spending sprees and watered-down graduation requirements. More data means better choices for families. city-journal.org/article/naep-n…

"You hand a diagnosis to a child...and you forever change that child's view of himself or herself. That's what we were seeing. We were seeing kids handed a limitation and told: 'There's something wrong with you, and only science can fix you. It's out of your control.'... That's a devastating thing to tell a child." @AbigailShrier with @Rafa_Mangual on the @CityJournal podcast last week:

Hasan Piker singled out the Shanghai-based Neville Singham as the "funding vehicle" for political agitation here in the United States. This is a huge admission from one of America's biggest podcasters. And it directly corroborates BPI's research on foreign influence in the campaign against American AI.

All plot lines inevitably converge.

SCOOP: We followed the money of California's $49M "farmworker weatherization" program, which provides free solar panels to illegal aliens, and discovered that one man is connected to every step in the contracting process, from the grantmakers to his private construction firm.

Last year brought nearly 30,000 felony assaults in New York City, the highest total since at least the turn of the millennium and a 44 percent increase over 2019.

SCOOP: California has spent $49 million on a program that gives free solar panels to illegal aliens. The state claims that its "farmworker weatherization" initiative fights climate change—but we traced the funds and found signals of waste and corruption. city-journal.org/article/califo…

In Canada, a 45-year-old with Crohn’s gets his MAID eligibility assessed outside a Tim Hortons; the doctor texts the man’s family, and then drives him to die. This is exactly what the great twentieth century Italian political philosopher Augusto Del Noce warned about as the dark telos of progressivism: a technocratic “compassion” that dissolves every transcendent limit on human life. The result is a perfectly bourgeois euthanasia machine, a new kind of triumph of the will.

The latest expose from our California reporting team. As Chris Rufo and Austen Hufford uncover, taxpayers have paid for for free solar for illegals, among other ongoing green scams that work as a slush fund for leftist causes. Is it the craziest story we’ve uncovered yet? Maybe the subsidied porn for prisoners beats it—but it’s up there.

Listening now to 'Alfie', one of the best Jazz movie soundtracks (1966). A composition by Sonny Rollins (tenor sax) with Kenny Burrell on guitar & orchestra conducted by Oliver Nelson. Here's the cool track: 'Alfie's Theme Differently' Enjoy!

Curious how @ArmandDAngour managed to get Satoshi Nakamoto to provide a blurb for his book!?

We’ve known for generations how to teach reading: systematic phonics. The National Reading Panel’s 2000 review of 100,000 studies proved it again, comprehensively—phonics beats “balanced literacy” and other misguided approaches. Yet ideology has left countless kids illiterate, despite billions of dollars spent. city-journal.org/article/hooked…

🚨 Hasan Names Singham, PSL, ANSWER, and Code Pink in One Breath On stream today, Hasan Piker discussed the reported Treasury scrutiny and said the broader target is “probably Singham” and “his operation,” naming PSL (Party for Socialism and Liberation), ANSWER Coalition, Code Pink, and “anything that he has ever financed.” He then acknowledged that Roy Singham lives in China and has been “a funding vehicle” for political movements and activism in the United States. That is exactly why this matters. This was never just about one influencer’s Cuba trip. It is about the Singham-linked ecosystem, the groups it funds, the delegations it supports, and the political operations built around them. Hasan didn’t refute the network. He mapped it.

Sharo piece. I wrote about Illich at length a while back. Modern technological systems become dangerous, Illich maintained, when they cease functioning as tools that extend human capacities and instead reorganize society in ways that foster dependence and alienation. The problem is not innovation as such, in other words, but the rise of systems that absorb individuals into vast networks managed by experts, eroding local knowledge and self-government. firstthings.com/the-genius-of-…

“Noncommittal endorsement of Magnifica Humanitas may allow secular AI skeptics to put off clarifying their own answers to the vital questions the encyclical addresses.” Read Geoff Shullenberger’s @g_shullenberger piece in COMPACT: compactmag.com/article/the-th…

@NYCMayor @NYCSanitation Doesn’t make sense

.@NYCSanitation I'd like to report a sweep

By “changed our city forever,” he means drove Minneapolis (among other cities) into a collective state of psychosis causing leaders to dismantle the barriers that stood between order and chaos, leading to an extended crime spree that disproportionately harmed precisely the communities the dismantling was supposed to help.

A legend

"I am not so naive as to suppose that the truth will always or invariably set people free, but I do believe it is only the truth that could ever set them free." —Theodore Dalrymple Read my foreword to Dalrymple's most famous book here: robkhenderson.com/p/without-pity…

In his brilliant new book, Michael Auslin traces how Jefferson’s words became our enduring rallying cry for liberty and equality—shaping wars, westward expansion, abolition, civil rights, and the American soul across 250 years. A must-read review from critic Edward Short for the nation’s Semiquincentennial. 👉 Read it here: city-journal.org/article/nation… #DeclarationOfIndependence #AmericanHistory #CityJournal