Civil Society

The Macmillan Event

Harold Macmillan Arrives in Time for the Midterms Events, dear boy. The October streets, the intact ham aisle, and the midterm ranking that does not move by itself. The Streets Did Not Look Like a Student Protest The streets of Limoges, Paris, Marseille, Lyon, and Milan did not look like a student protest over classroom conditions or the price of bread. A nineteenth-century town hall in Limoges burned until its roof collapsed. The tourist office went up in Lyon. Rioters entered and damaged town halls in Marseille and Lille. Looters emptied hundreds of shops in a single day. Police made between…

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The Deadly Results of Democrat Policies

Illegal. Released. Again. Crime, immigration, and fraud are one chain. November is the sequel. I wrote in May that crime, illegal immigration, and fraud would be major midterm issues. I have written the fraud half of that sentence until the cows come home. The last ten days handed the country the staple. A coalition of Democrat states went to court to keep welfare off the green-card test. A rideshare driver who should never have been here was charged with raping a seventeen-year-old girl in Maryland after New York had already let him walk on a sex-abuse arrest. Same week. Same argument.…

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What Flock Actually Sells

The Pole Is Not the Product Flock did not sell Texas a camera. It leased cities a searchable graph of other people's cars. People keep arguing about a black box on a pole. Police chiefs hold up recovered trucks and missing children. Opponents hold up 1984. City managers hold up a vendor invoice and a transparency portal. All three groups talk about a camera because a camera photographs well and fits on a council agenda. Here is the thing the agenda never quite names. Flock Safety did not become a national fixture by selling poles. It sold a searchable graph of…

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Speak for Mackinac, Speak for America

Creaturehood and the American Character I have a practice that keeps me honest. From time to time I sit with the full weight of every oath I have ever sworn. Not the polished ones of adulthood, but the first ones: the clumsy, absolute promises of early childhood, the ones made when the world still felt straightforward and my word felt like the only currency that mattered. I do not treat them as relics. I treat them as live obligations. The man I am now must answer for the boy who made them. Circumstance matters. The light I had at the time…

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Rand Paul’s Relentless Document War

The Paper Trail They Tried to Bury Rand Paul does not traffic in vibes. He collects documents. While most of Washington moved on, while the same officials who shaped the COVID response collected awards, wrote memoirs, and settled into think-tank sinecures, Paul kept prying open the record. One FOIA fight, one transcribed interview, one redacted package at a time. The result now sits in his Senate Homeland Security “Reading Room”: a growing archive that maps the distance between what the public was told and what the people in charge actually knew, funded, and protected. Follow the money. Follow the research. Follow…

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A Time for Choosing, Again

Steeling Our Patriotic Reserve on America’s 250th As we mark the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence, Ronald Reagan’s words from more than six decades ago echo with fresh urgency: “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it on to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States when men were free.” This wasn’t mere rhetoric from…

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The Birthright Citizenship Decision

How the Majority Rewrote the Fourteenth Amendment and Why Congress Must Now Act The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. Barbara ranks among the most consequential rulings of the Term. In a 6-3 opinion by Chief Justice Roberts, the Court struck down President Trump’s Executive Order limiting birthright citizenship for children of parents who are unlawfully present or only temporarily in the United States. The majority held that the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause demands automatic citizenship for virtually every child born on American soil, no matter their parents’ status. On the surface, the opinion gleams with scholarly polish: historical citations to…

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The Revolution Always Eats Its Own

How the Radicals Are Devouring the Democrat Party The images from the last week tell the story better than any poll or press release. On one side, Hakeem Jeffries beams as he congratulates the new DSA-backed members of New York’s congressional delegation, calling them public servants, union organizers, and community activists, as if they’re simply Democrats who took a different path. On the other side, the same radical energy that carried those candidates to victory turns inward almost immediately. Crowds chant “You’re next” at Jeffries himself. In San Francisco, longtime progressive stalwart Scott Wiener is surrounded, harassed, and physically intimidated at…

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I Am a Patriot

I Refuse to Apologize for Loving My Country I stand in the same east Plano neighborhood where my wife and I built our life together more than two decades ago. The streets I walked with my kids still carry the echoes of Friday night football lights, backyard barbecues, and the quiet rhythm of working families putting down roots. The mosques have multiplied nearby, the languages in the parks have shifted, and the familiar anchors, the corner stores, the churches where generations were baptized and buried, the schools that once felt like an extension of home, have changed in ways that test…

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American Families Gain Ground

How Trump’s H-1B Crackdown Is Delivering Discounts for American Families and Breathing Room in the Job Market From the parks and school drop-off lines in east Plano to the new-build subdivisions stretching through Frisco, Prosper, and Celina, the rhythm of daily life in Collin County has shifted noticeably in recent months. For Sale signs linger longer. Conversations at neighborhood gatherings carry a different tone. The rapid cultural and linguistic changes that defined the post-pandemic boom years have slowed, replaced by something more measured: a suburban rebalancing long overdue. The New York Post and Bloomberg captured it sharply in early June 2026:…

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