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Today on The Editors, Rich, Andrew, Charlie, and Luther discuss El-Sayed's win in Michigan, America's munitions shortage, and the resignation of Cambridge professor Jason Arday.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Josh Trevino’s post, "America is more than an idea"
Andrew: Mike Gonzalez’s piece about the Smithsonian and how "America’s museum culture needs an overhaul"
Luther: Noah Rothman’s piece, "Hasan Piker is a symptom, not the cause"
Charlie: John Puri’s post, "Why is food more expensive?"

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Rich: In the midst of reading the first volume of The Golden Thread: A History of the Western World
Andrew: Also reading a book called Notes on a Colonial Situation in Hell
Luther: Refurbished a sailboat
Charlie: Watched the movie Gettysburg for the first time on a flight back from California

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Noah, Jim, and Dan discuss the immigration crisis in Spain's African enclave, Ceuta, a deal over the Blanche Attorney General nomination, and Democratic Socialist Francesca Hong's current domination in the Wisconsin primary.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Josh Treviño's piece on "why World War II still matters"
Noah: John Fund's piece, "Where bipartisan reform is actually working"
Jim: Charlie's post, "Okay, but what do you want to actually do"
Dan: The entirety of the "common good" debate in The Corner

Light Items:

Rich: New Spider-Man movie, A Brand New Day
Noah: Power outages
Jim: Finger Lakes vacation
Dan: Also the new Spider-Man movie

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Michael, Noah, and Andrew discuss Trump’s recent polling, Zohran Mamdani’s grocery store goals, and the common good.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Dan’s post "Why JD Vance Generates So Much Heat"
MBD: Rich’s piece “The Iran War Is Eating Trump’s Presidency”
Noah: Christian Schneider's piece “Let People Ink for Themselves”
Andrew: Michael Strain's post "Adults Are Responsible for How They Use AI"

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Rich: Extra-inning baseball
MBD: Vacation
Noah: Nashville
Andrew: Monarch butterflies

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Jim, and Dan discuss Rand Paul’s release of Anthony Fauci’s diaries, updates on the Ukraine–Russia war, and Trump’s continuing filibuster battle.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jim’s piece “anthony Fauci”
Charlie: Also Abigail’s piece
Jim: Andy’s post “the case against former FNI director James Comey”
Dan: Abigail’s piece “they have no idea what we think”

Light Items:

Rich: Summer vacation
Charlie: Ella Langley
Jim: The Jetty
Dan: Visiting his grandmother

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Today on The Editors, Charlie guest-hosts for Rich and is joined by MBD, Dan, and Jim to discuss the latest round of tariffs, some strange new respect for Ukraine from certain corners, and much more.

Editors’ Picks:

Charlie: Jessica Melugin's piece "Won’t Anyone Think of the Parents?"
Dan: Brittany Bernstein's piece "How Cuba Is Covertly Boosting America’s Radical Left"
MBD: Armond White's piece "The Fog of Hype"
Jim: Noah's piece "What Do We Get Out of the Saudi Nuclear Deal?"

Light Items:

Charlie: Hornblower
Jim: Quiet house in the summer
MBD: Quitting coffee
Dan: Anticipating The Odyssey

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Michael, and Phil discuss the Democratic Socialists of America’s desire to overturn the American system as we know it, Lindsey Graham’s sister Darline, and Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Phil's post "Where Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Succeeds and Fails"
Charlie: John Gustavsson's piece "Andy Burnham Is Bad News for British Business"
MBD: Armond White's piece "The Odyssey — the Twisted Epic We Deserve"
Phil: Jeff's Carnival of Fools "The Democratic Odyssey Moves to America’s Dairyland"

Light Items:

Rich: New Minions movie
Charlie: Chad Powers
MBD: August vacation
Phil: Deck sealing

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Noah, and Dan discuss Trump's Thursday night speech, JD Vance's appearance on Joe Rogan's podcast, and much more.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Luther’s post “Let the Flyboys Fly”
Charlie: Dan’s magazine piece “Something Is Going to Happen”
Noah: Phil Klein’s post “Where Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Succeeds and Fails”
Dan: Melissa Langsam Braunstein’s magazine piece “Fighting the New Antisemitism”

Light Items:

Rich: The Odyssey
Charlie: SeaWorld
Noah: Work event
Dan: Bad air

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Jim, and Noah discuss the resumption of war with Iran, Ro Khanna’s playacting in Israel, and the passing of Lindsey Graham.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Also Dan’s post
Charlie: Noah’s piece “The Left Goes After Marco Rubio”
Jim: Dan’s post “The Last Interesting Man in Washington”
Noah: Lamar Alexander “The Senate Doesn’t Need a Change in Rules. It Needs a Change in Behavior"

Light Items:

Rich: Mini golf
Charlie: Reverse storm chaser
Jim: Pastor Ezra Jin
Noah: Patriotic YMCA

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Noah, Charlie, MBD, and Phil discuss Graham Planter's decision to drop out of the Maine Senate race, Mayor Mamdani's snub of Little Italy, and the growing property tax rebellion.

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Jim, and Noah discuss the new allegations against Graham Platner, Mamdani's Fourth of July speech, and much more.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Dan’s piece “What Caitlin Clark’s Treatment Tells Us About the WNBA”
Charlie: Phil’s Corner post “Democrats Have Less Leverage Over Graham Platner Than They Think”
Jim: Noah’s piece “People Who Should Never Work in Democratic Politics Again”
Noah: K-Lo’s post “When Does Lyndsey Fifield Get Her Post-Platner-Campaign Apology?”

Light Items:

Rich: July 4th evenings
Charlie: World Cup
Jim: Pressure
Noah: Fourth celebrations

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Noah, and Phil discuss the cease-fire in Gaza, the Letitia James indictment, and much more.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Haley and Kamden's piece “Virginia School Board Member Sympathized With Trans-Identifying Sex Offender Who Exposed Himself in Women’s Locker Room”
Charlie: Alexander William Salter’s piece “JD Vance Should Take the Moon Shot”
Noah: Jason Rantz’s piece “The Humiliating Failure of Washington State’s Plastic Bag Ban”
Phil: Audrey’s coverage of the Jay Jones controversy

Light Items:

Rich: An ode to the Acela dining car
Charlie: Taylor Swift song
Noah: Drop ceiling tiles
Phil: Bittersweet Yankees season ending

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Noah, and Audrey discuss Bari Weiss’s move to CBS, the Jay Jones controversy, and much more.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jeff Blehar's piece "Brett Kavanaugh’s Would-Be Assassin Gets Time Off for Trans Behavior"
Charlie: Dominic Pino's Jolt "Congress Should Eliminate the ‘Shutdown’ Charade"
Noah: Jack Butler's post "Stay Athwart"
Audrey: NR's Editorial "Anniversary of a Horror"

Light Items:

Rich: Coffee
Charlie: Yesterday's football game
Noah: Country dog problems
Audrey: Meyer lemon tree

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Phil discuss the Trump/Hegseth address to the military’s top brass, where the government shutdown might be heading, and much more.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Mark’s post "Robot Umpiring Will Be Bad for Baseball"
Charlie: Also Dan's ACB interview
MBD: Armond White’s pieces “Happy Gilmore 2” and “Sleeper-Cell Critics Battle America”
Phil: Dan’s piece "A Conversation with Justice Barrett"

Light Items:

Rich: Reason debate
Charlie: Watching the Yankees
MBD: Old Parkland debate
Phil: Yankee game

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Noah, and Audrey discuss the impending government shutdown, Trump’s newly released plan for rehabilitating Gaza, and Mississippi’s academic achievements.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Charlie’s piece "Mississippi Learning: Educational Success Is a ‘Choice’ After All"
Charlie: Dan’s piece “Five Problems with Blaming the Guns”
Noah: Jeff’s Carnival of Fools from today "The Chicago Teachers Union Is Exactly Who You Thought They Were"
Audrey: Also Jeff’s Carnival of Fools from today

Light Items:

Rich: Dash Mini Waffle Maker
Charlie: Duck tales
Noah: His brother’s wedding
Audrey: Heading to another wedding

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Jim, and Michael discuss the indictment of Jim Comey, the terrible attack on a Texas ICE facility, and much more.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: The McCarthy Report
Charlie: Andy’s post “The Indictment Against Comey Should Be Dismissed”
Jim: Dan’s piece “Jimmy Kimmel, Unrepentant Liar”
MBD: Armond White’s piece “There Will Be Bloodlust in One Battle After Another”

Light Items:

Rich: Yankees vs. White Sox
Charlie: Self-driving taxi
Jim: Long road trip
MBD: Driving glasses

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Noah, and Audrey discuss Erika Kirk’s speech at her husband’s memorial service on Sunday, Trump’s odd warning about Tylenol, and much more.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Haley’s Instagram Reels
Charlie: Allen C. Guelzo’s magazine piece “What Frederick Douglass Found in Abraham Lincoln"
Noah: Yuval Levin’s magazine piece “The Assassin’s Other Target”
Audrey: Haley’s piece “How a Male Sex Offender Got Away with Leering at Girls in a Virginia School Locker Room”

Light Items:

Rich: Stovetop popcorn
Charlie: Arizona
Noah: Ugandan actor
Audrey: Soup season

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Phil discuss ABC pulling Jimmy Kimmel’s show from the air, Kamala Harris’s new book, and what’s going on with Karen Attiah.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: James Lynch and Audrey Fahlberg's piece “Former Biden Chief of Staff Admits President’s Speech Stumbles Increased, Memory Worsened”
Charlie: NR’s editorial “Abolish the FCC”
MBD: K-Lo’s newsletter “J. K. Rowling Is Right About Life”
Phil: Abigail’s piece "Planned Parenthood Is Teaching Teens How to Get Around Gender-Transition Safeguards"

Light Items:

Rich: FSU Constitution Day talk
Charlie: Phantom Thread
MBD: Harvard debate
Phil: Yankee game

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Jim, and Noah discuss what we know about Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer, new cancel culture developments, and Kathy Hochul’s endorsement of Zohran Mamdani.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: All of Jeff’s coverage of Charlie Kirk’s assassination
Charlie: Noah’s post “Chris Murphy Doesn’t See You”
Jim: MBD’s post “Cancellation and Violence"
Noah: NR’s editorial “Drugmakers Have a Right to Advertise”

Light Items:

Rich: Fenway Park
Charlie: Also Fenway Park
Jim: Homecoming dance formalwear
Noah: Kids’ birthday party

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, MBD, Noah, and Jim discuss the horrific murder of Charlie Kirk on a Utah college campus yesterday.

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Jim, and Noah discuss the vile murder in Charlotte, Ezra Klein’s thoughts on a possible government shutdown, the Phillies’ Karen, and much more.

Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Charlie’s post “What the Hell Is Charlotte’s Mayor, Vi Lyles, Talking About?”
Charlie: Dan’s piece “Can New Yorkers Unite Against Mamdani?"
Jim: NR's Editorial "Lessons from the Charlotte Horror"
Noah: Rick Brookhiser's post "Zohran Mamdani Missed New York’s Turnaround — So He Learned Nothing from It"

Light items:

Rich: Sports memorabilia auction site
Charlie: Jags win
Jim: Football in a new era
Noah: First time in Yankee stadium

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Phil’s post "Iran Has Attacked America Via Proxy for Decades. By Supporting Israel, Trump Is Repaying the Favor"
Charlie: John O’Sullivan's magazine piece "Margaret Thatcher Is Having a Moment"
Jim: Kayla Bartsch’s dispatches from Israel
Noah: Andy’s piece "The Point Is to End the Iran Nuclear Threat, Not to Secure a ‘Deal’"

Light Items:

Rich: Phil Rizzuto baseball card
Charlie: His kids taking him out for Father’s Day
Jim: Father’s Day barbecue
Noah: Ibérico ham

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Charlie’s piece "Yes, We Should Have Bombed Japan"
Charlie: Rob Long’s magazine piece "Trump and Musk’s Therapy Session"
Ramesh: Judson Berger’s magazine piece "What We Lost When We Stopped Making Home Movies"
Noah: Phil’s post “Why Israel Needed to Act Now”

Light Items:

Rich: White peacock escape
Charlie: Phase two of his swimming pool revamp
Ramesh: Your Friends and Neighbors
Noah: Grad party con't

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Rich, Charlie, Noah, and Phil discuss the riots in Los Angeles, the return of Abrego Garcia, and the end of Greta Thunberg's seafaring adventure.

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jeff’s “That’s a Wrap for Greta Thunberg”
Charlie: Luther’s “Harvey Milk Is Undeserving of a Ship”
Audrey: Dominic’s “Medicaid Enrollment Should Decline”
Dominic: Noah’s “The New York City Democratic Mayoral Primary as the Angolan Civil War”

Light Items:

Rich: Has been listening to Chappell Roan
Charlie: Rewired his pool
Audrey: Traveling to Italy
Dominic: Traveling to the Italy of the Midwest (Wisconsin)

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Noah’s post “Where Are the Dot Connectors?”
Charlie: Jack Butler’s piece “The Commencement Address Harvard Needs”
Jim: Kayla Bartsch’s post “Bad Therapy Tanked the Birth Rates”
Noah: MBD’s piece “Summers Before Screens”

Light Items:

Rich: College softball world series
Charlie: The World at War
Jim: High school graduation
Noah: His kid's all-star game

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Noah's post "No, Trump Isn’t Racially ‘Resegregating’ Schools"
MBD: Armond White’s piece “Wes Anderson Shows How the World Works”
Phil: Noah’s piece “Get Ready for the ‘Trump Is Senile’ News Cycle”
Jack: Leah Libresco Sargeant’s magazine piece “When IVF Met MAHA”

Light Items:

Rich: The Story of Art by E. H. Gombrich
MBD: Your Friends and Neighbors
Phil: Japanese toilets
Jack: A bridge in Maryland

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Editors Picks:

Rich: Stanley Kurtz's post "Trump vs. Harvard: A Negotiated Solution"
Jim: Dan McLaughlin’s post "New York City Could Do Worse Than Mayor Andrew Cuomo"
Noah: Charlie’s magazine piece “I’m an American Guy Now”
Dominic: Andy’s weekend piece “On the War in Europe, Trump Has Been ‘Tapping’ the American People Along”

Light Items:

Rich: Wiffle ball
Jim: The tree
Noah: Cold boat
Dominic: Michie Tavern

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Abigail’s piece "Keir Starmer’s Immigration Hypocrisy"
Charlie: Jim’s Jolt “Now Democrats Can Admit Biden Was a Disastrous President”
MBD: Armond White’s piece "The Mission: Impossible Booster Shot"
Dominic: Veronique de Rugy’s post “The Senate Must Be More Responsible Than the House”

Light Items:

Rich: Safe Passage by Dr. Kori Schake
Charlie: Green Wing
MBD: The weather
Dominic: Monticello

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Recent magazine cover package on the new pope
Charlie: Noah’s post “How Dare They?”
Noah: Jim’s Jolt "Why Didn’t Joe Biden Get a PSA Test?”
Phil: Jeff’s newsletter “Does the Biden Cover-Up Have Two Layers?”

Light Items:

Rich: The Mets vs. Yankees game
Charlie: The diner
Noah: Pool party dinner
Phil: Subway Series

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Craig Young's piece "A Tip of the Rockies Cap to Ellis Burks"
Charlie: Dan’s piece “Trump Is Not the First President to Confront the Courts”
MBD: Abigail’s piece "Bestie Flopped the Linguistic Vibe Check, No Cap"
Audrey: Charlie's piece "Joe Biden’s Election Analysis Is Nonsensical"

Light Items:

Rich: Texas
Charlie: SSGB show
MBD: What Is Redemption by Philippe de la Trinité
Audrey: Going to a wedding

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jeff’s post "Matt Gaetz Cannot Be Allowed to Become Attorney General"
Charlie: Dan's post “Trump Dares the Senate to Vote Down Matt Gaetz”
MBD: Noah Rothman’s piece “Trump Doesn’t Have a Mandate for Chaos”
Dominic: Dave Yost’s piece “Will Democrats Now Become Born-Again Federalists?”

Light Items:

Rich: The Washington Capitals
Charlie: Hockey game
MBD: Stephen Wilson Jr.
Dominic: Thomas Sowell’s books

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jeff’s post “Kamala Harris Truly Was Historically Terrible”
Charlie: Michael J. New’s post "Abortion Was Not A Winning Strategy for Democrats, Mainstream Media Realize"
Jim: NR’s editorial “Donald Trump Doesn’t Need Recess Appointments”
MBD: Dan’s piece “J. D. Vance Is Walking a Historically Unusual Path”

Light Items:

Rich: College basketball
Charlie: Am I Racist?
Jim: His trip to Canada
MBD: Gerry “The Monk” Hutch

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, Phil, and Audrey discuss Democratic recriminations in the wake of Trump’s election, predictions for his cabinet appointees, and much more.

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Ramesh's piece “Never Trust New York Times Reporting on Abortion"
MBD: Jim Geraghty’s Jolt "The Julia Roberts Political Ad Is a Jenga Tower of Faulty Assumptions"
Noah: Yuval Levin's magazine piece “The 2024 Stakes Are Lower Than You Think”
Dominic: Sam Gregg's piece “Tariffs Are a Lousy Negotiating Tool”

Light Items:

Rich: The crushing Yankees loss
MBD: A weekend with his kids
Noah: A busy, lovely week
Dominic: Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jerry Hendrix and Brent Sadler's magazine piece "Restoring Our Maritime Strength"
Jim: Dan’s post "Don’t Overlook Americans for Prosperity Action’s Ground Game"
MBD: Nr's editorial "No on Florida’s Amendment 4"
Phil: Jim’s Jolt "The Republican Jackpot in Nevada"

Light Items:

Rich: Christendom by Peter Heather
Jim: Busy weekend
MBD: Idagio app
Phil: Best airplane delay

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Timothy Minella's piece "The University of Michigan Went All In on DEI. The Results Were Disastrous"
Charlie: Frederick M. Hess's magazine piece "Miguel Cardona Is America’s Worst Education Secretary"
Ramesh: Charlie's magazine piece "Will Conservatism Recover?"

Light Items:

Rich: The Buckley Dinner
Charlie: The Martian
Ramesh: Behind Her Eyes

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jeff’s post "Trump Answers Enraged Democrats: ‘Sir, This Is a McDonald’s’"
Charlie: Allen C. Guelzo's magazine piece “The Union on the Brink of Civil War”
Jim: Jeff’s newsletter
Noah: Henry Olsen’s piece “Trump’s Tricky Math”

Light Items:

Rich: Juan Soto’s at bat
Charlie: The Yankees
Jim: Busy time of year
Noah: Halloween prep

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Ramesh's post "Cheney, Harris, and the Constitution"
Charlie: Andrew Stuttaford’s magazine piece "The Disinformation Panic"
MBD: NR's editorial "Justice in Gaza"
Phil: Charlie’s piece "The Vilification of Elon Musk Is about Politics, and Nothing More"

Light Items:

Rich: Ole Miss
Charlie: Yankees last night
MBD: An Inconvenient History by Charles Park
Phil: Battling the weather

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jeff’s latest newsletter
Charlie: Jim Geraghty’s election coverage
Noah: Vahaken Mouradian’s post “Why the Harris Show Can’t Go On Forever”

Light Items:

Rich: Rubicon by Tom Holland
Charlie: Vintage video game Worms
Noah: Taiwan trip

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Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Dominic discuss the saga of Ta-Nehisi Coates and CBS, the fallout from Hurricane Milton, and shifting "vibes" around the presidential election.

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Rich, Charlie, Jim, and Phil discuss the anniversary of October 7, Kamala Harris's interview on 60 Minutes, and the latest election polling.

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Editors' Picks:

Rich: Dominic's piece "That's Just How We Do Things Here"
Jim: Dominic's reporting on the dockworkers' strike
MBD: Jay Nordlinger's article "Life in Your Face"
Dominic: The Editorial "Iran's Ballistic-Missile Attack Is a Failure of Democratic Appeasement"

Light Items:

Rich: Kansas City
Jim: Rosh Hashanah
MBD: The Mets
Dominic: NR in D.C.

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Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Phil discuss the indict of Eric Adams, Kamala Harris's interview with Stephanie Ruhle, and President Zelensky's appearance at a partisan event.

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Editors’ Pick:

Rich: Jack Butler's magazine piece "The Big Sky Senate Brawl"
Charlie: Noah’s post “Progressives Don’t Get What They Want Because They’re Not Honest about What They Want”
Jim: Jeff’s new newsletter “The Polls Are Starting to Suggest It’s 2016 All Over Again
Noah: Jim’s Jolt “Hopes of a Democratic Senate Majority Next Year Are Hanging by a Thread”

Light Items:

Rich: South Carolina
Charlie: A roadtrip
Jim: Jets victory
Noah: Expensive weekend

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Also Charlie and Luther’s magazine piece
Charlie: Dominic’s magazine piece “The Coming Budget Blowout”
MBD: Rothman piece “When Will Republicans Tire of Touching the Hot Stovetop?"
Dominic: Charlie and Luther’s magazine piece "Charlie and Luther’s Most Excellent Whizzbang American Roller-Coaster Adventure"

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Rich: Caitlin Clark
Charlie: Sunshine is back
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Rich: Jeff’s post “Kamala Harris Spits Up Word Salad All Over Her Lapels”
Charlie: Jeff’s post “Everybody Is Terrified of Where This Is Headed and Nobody Will Say It”
Jim: Noah’s post “The Violence Is Not Symmetrical”
Noah: Charlie’s piece “WWhat Are the Rules?”

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Rich: Lake Placid
Charlie: His parents’ new kitten
Jim: The Sunday Jets game
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Rich: Dan's piece "A Second Trump Term Is Unlikely to Be Good"
Charlie: Phil’s post "Media Are Misleadingly Citing Wharton Budget Estimates to Underplay Deficit Impact of Kamala Harris’s Proposals"
Phil: Dom’s post "The Full Context of Vance’s 2020 Election Comments Makes Them Even Crazier"

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Rich: Travel woes
Charlie: Apollo 13 documentary
Phil: The perfect brisket

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Rich: Dom’s post "The Full Context of Vance’s 2020 Election Comments Makes Them Even Crazier"
Jim: Rich’s piece "When Joe Biden Kneecapped His Presidency" and NR's editorial "The Afghanistan-Withdrawal Disaster, Revisited"
MBD: Luther's post "Paul Harrell, R.I.P."
Noah: Haley’s post “God (Trump) Save the Cats”

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Rich: Reagan
Jim: Watching football with his son
MBD: The politics of front lawns
Noah: SpaceQuest Historian

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Rich: Jeff Blehar’s post "Russia’s Pathetic Propaganda Pawns"
Charlie: Andy’s work
MBD: Andy’s piece “No One Is Buying Hunter Biden’s Claim of Innocence”
Dominic: Noah Rothman's piece “America Is Losing”

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Rich: Driverless cars in LA
Charlie: The NFL
MBD: Emmaus Academic
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Rich: Ryan Mills's piece "Radical Activists Nearly Ruined a Denver Mom with Racism Charge. Then the Evidence Came Out"
Charlie: Michael Greve's magazine piece "How the Roberts Court Mangles Federalism"
Jim Geraghty: Ryan Mills's piece "Can Senate Candidate Who Once Led George Floyd Protest Help a State GOP ‘in Ruins’ Rebuild?"
Noah: Sarah Colleen Schutte's magazine piece "Taking Flight at Oshkosh"

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Rich: A dreadful movie
Charlie: Math and football
Jim: Feels like fall
Noah: Birthday party for his youngest

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Rich: Jeff’s post "The One about RFK Jr. and the Severed Whale Head"
Charlie: Noah’s post “There Goes the Neighborhood”
Phil: Jeff's post "The CNN Interview Revealed Only That Kamala Harris Is as Vacuous as Her Campaign"
MBD: Charlie’s piece "Remember Joe Biden?"

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Rich: The giraffe
Charlie: His kids’ vocab test
Phil: NFL Sunday tickets
MBD: The Instigators

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Rich: Jeff Blehar's piece "The Harris Campaign’s Cheap New Debate Gambit Reveals Its Fears"
Charlie: Frederick M. Hess's magazine piece "Gadget Overload Is Hurting Our Schools"
Jim: Charlie and Mark's debate over this election cycle

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Rich: Sunglasses woes
Charlie: School project
Jim: Kids growing up
Noah: Kids back to school

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Rich: Charlie's piece "I Hate Everyone"
Charlie: NR's coverage of Tim Walz
Phil: Jim’s post "We’re Probably Approaching Peak Kamala-Mania"
Ramesh: NR's latest magazine issue

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Rich: Got a ball at a Yankees game
Charlie: Indian food
Phil: Cooperstown
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Rich: Abigail Anthony’s post “Star Wars: The Acolyte — Dubbed ‘The Woke-alyte’ — Reportedly Canceled after First Season”
Charlie: Christine Rosen’s magazine piece "The Self-Aggrandizement of Jill Biden"
Noah: Charlie’s podcast episode with David French

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Rich: Vacation
Charlie: Pre-season football
Noah: Making a new dessert

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Noah: Jeff Blehar’s post “Choke on It, You Commies”
Charlie: Dan’s response to Laura Ingraham "Is Anything Trump Does Ever Trump’s Fault?"
Dominic: Jim’s Jolt today "Kamala Harris’s Statist Economic Plan"

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Noah: Roofers
Charlie: His tenth wedding anniversary
Dominic: How to Watch Cricket by John Arlott

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Noah: Mark’s post "Ukraine Rolls the Dice in Kursk"
Charlie: Noah’s post “They’re Still Coming for You, Democrats”
Jim: Dan’s post "What’s Missing from the ‘Conservative Case for Voting for Harris’"
Audrey: Jim’s Jolt from today "The Questions the Media Should Be Asking Kamala Harris"

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Noah: Tampa
Charlie: His and Luther’s upcoming piece
Jim: Hurricane Debbie
Audrey: The DNC

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Rich: Jane Leavy's The Last Boy
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Phil: The beginning of football season
Audrey: Long Island

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Rich: Matt Continetti’s magazine cover story “The Short Goodbye"
MBD: Noah’s post “The First Signs of a ‘Too-Online’ Campaign”
Phil: NR’s editorial “Tim Walz’s Military Service Deserves Scrutiny"
Audrey: Phil’s piece "Trump Will Get His Clock Cleaned by Kamala Harris in the Debate If He Doesn’t Improve"

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Rich: Dominic’s Jolt form today "What Happened Yesterday in the Stock Market"
MBD: Noah's post "Tim Walz Exposes the Democratic Party’s Weakness for Lawlessness"
Noah: Jim’s Jolt "Harris VP Short-Lister Comes Loaded with Baggage," and Clifford Smith's piece "Is Afghanistan the Next Gaza?"
Dominic: Kevin Williamson's piece "Minnesota Nasty," NR's 2023 editorial "Minnesota's Lurch to the Hard Left," and Dan's 2023 piece "How Republicans Lost Minnesota"

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Rich: Twisters
MBD: History books for vacation
Noah: Video golf
Dominic: Watching the Olympics

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Rich: Caroline’s recent work
Charlie: Dan’s post “Where Is This ‘Kamala the Prosecutor’ We Keep Hearing About?”
MBD: Henry Olsen's piece "How J. D. Vance Can Make It through His Trial by Fire"
Phil: Andy’s piece “The Long-Dreaded 9/11 Plea Deal Is Imminent”

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Rich: Maine root beer
Charlie: Rescued his PlayStation
MBD: Prepping for vacation
Phil: Watching Olympic swimming

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Rich, Charlie, Jim, and Noah discuss the Biden-Harris plan to pack the Supreme Court, what version of Kamala Harris will run for president, and who Harris will choose as her VP.

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Rich Lowry is joined by Vinnie Vernuccio, President of the Institute for the American Worker, to discuss how unions have reduced worker freedom, the underhanded tactics unions use to gain power and stifle dissenting voices, how the government enables unions, and how Americans can use free market principles to restore workers rights and bring about positive labor reform.

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Noah, Charlie, and MBD discuss Kamala Harris's first week as the candidate, Joe Biden's failure to explain why he stepped down, and the protests against Bibi Netanyahu's speech before Congress.

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Rich, Charlie, Noah, and Jim discuss Joe Biden's bombshell decision to drop out of the presidential race, whether Kamala Harris will be an effect replacement, and the ongoing criticism of the head of the Secret Service.

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Rich: Various views on J. D. Vance
Charlie: Reading about all the crazy news
Maddy: Audrey’s RNC dispatches
MBD: Noah's post “How Much Is Enough, Democrats?”

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Rich: Was sad about Maddy leaving and forgot to include his light item.
Charles: Visiting his family
Maddy: End of an era
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Rich: Andy’s recent pieces
Jim: MBD’s post "Bravo to the Vance Pick"
Noah: Phil’s piece “J. D. Vance Pick Represents Another Nail in Coffin of Reagan Republicanism”
Phil: Dan’s post “Trump Dodges Another Bullet: Jack Smith”

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Rich: At the RNC
Jim: Teen back from camp
Noah: Date night with his wife
Phil: Not going to the Yankees-Orioles game

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Rich: Abigail’s post "The ‘Transphobic National Review Article’"
MBD: Rich’s piece “Maybe Biden Isn’t Such a Kind-Hearted, Wise Statesman after All”
Maddy: Mark’s post "Biden’s Press Conference Will Be Enough for Democrats Who Want to Look Away"
Phil: Jeff’s post “Biden Is Riding the Bomb All the Way Down, Taking America with Him”

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Rich: Not watching the Yankees
MBD: Going to a Mets gam
Maddy: Vacation in Rome
Phil: Swimming in an Olympic-size pool

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Rich: Andy’s piece “After Supreme Court Decisions, Judge Merchan Must Throw Out Trump’s Convictions”
MBD: Ramesh’s post “NYT Keeps Botching Religious-Freedom Case”
Jim: Jeff’s post “The Media Want the Flaming Wreckage of the Biden Campaign to Explode — to Cover Their Tracks”
Noah: Yuval’s post “Our Deformed Party System”

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Rich: D.C. as a tourist
MBD: Gary Moore
Jim: Model UN
Noah: The woods

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Noah: Agrees with Haley’ pick
Charlie: Dominic’s post "What Our ‘National Conversation’ on Middle America Misses"
Phil: Charlie’s piece “What Is the Plan, Republicans?”
Haley: Dominic Pino’s post “Wildfires Aren’t Started by an Angry Mother Earth”

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Noah: Being on the Commentary Magazine Podcast
Charlie: Huckleberry Finn
Phil: More meat adventures
Haley: Locksmithing school

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Noah: Mark Wright’s post “Oliver Anthony’s Fuzzy Lament”
Charlie: Andy’s post “Is the Looming Georgia Indictment the Most Perilous for Trump?"
Jim: Jeff’s post “A Disaster, a President, and the Limits of Consolation”
Dominic: Jim’s Jolt from today "Which Countries Are Digging into Their Pockets to Help Ukraine?"

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Noah: Power outages
Charlie: Playing in the pool
Jim: Nordic countries
Dominic: Dial M for Murder

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Rich: Noah’s Jolt "Joe Biden Fell Into the ‘Climate Emergency’ Trap of His Own Making"
Charlie: Dominic’s magazine piece "Cricket Comes to America"
MBD: Jeff's piece "Robbie Robertson 1943–2023: The Band’s Leader Finally Rests the Weight"
Jeff: Andy’s pieces on the Hunter Biden issues

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Rich: “The Bad Guys Won” by JeffPearlman
Charlie: Munich
MBD: Anticipating vacation
Jeff: William Friedkin

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Rich: Dominic’s Jolt for today "How Yellow Went Out of Business"
Charlie: Noah’s post “Russia and China Are Trying to Tell Us Something”
Noah: Haley Strack’s piece “Biden Considers Cutting Off America’s Best Uranium Resources Even as He Pushes to Eliminate Fossil Fuels"
Dominic: Noah’s post “For the Ecological Extremist, Civilization Is the Problem”

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Rich: Elm City Pilsner
Charlie: Justified
Noah: Kid-free for a few days
Dominic: The Great D.C. Hurricane of Monday Afternoon

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Rich: Jim’s Morning Jolt today "Why Vivek Ramaswamy Says These Things"
Charlie: NR’s coverage of the recent indictment
MBD: Wilfred Reilly's piece “Not Everyone Who Lived the Day before Yesterday Was ‘Evil’”
Jeff: Andy’s post “Trump Can’t Win”

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Rich: Mission: Impossible
Charlie: Oppenheimer
MBD: Listening to Charley Crockett
Jeff: Nick Lowe

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Rich: Dan’s print piece “William Jennings Bryans Subtracting Populism”
Jim: Editorial “The Covid Cover-up”
Noah: Jack Butler’s upcoming magazine piece “Is Your Doctor Racist?”
Phil: Charlie’s podcast episode this week, talking with Andrew Roberts

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Rich: Barbie
Jim: Space camp/Assateague
Noah: Beer garden
Phil: Goodfellas

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Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Maddy discuss the collapse of Hunter Biden's plea deal, Ron DeSantis's praise of JFK Jr., and the pending abortion referendum in Ohio.

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Rich: The recent print magazine cover
Charlie: Jack’s piece “Conservatives Are Getting Barbie Wrong”
Jim: Dominic’s piece “AI Is Not a Close Substitute for Human Actors and Screenwriters”
Noah: Charlie’s piece “Kamala Harris Is Brazenly Lying about Florida’s Slavery Curriculum”

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Rich: Maine
Charlie: Getting beaten in Monopoly
Jim: Boating on a lake
Noah: American Gladiators

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Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Jeff discuss the congressional testimony of the FBI whistleblowers, a call for Biden to ignore the Supreme Court, and whether it was appropriate for the U.S. to drop the atomic bombs on Japan.

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Rich: Yuval Levin’s post "Distinguishing Two Revolutions"
Charlie: Graham Hillard's book review in the recent print magazine "When the IRA Nearly Assassinated Thatcher"
Jim: Noah’s post “The Great Tune-Out”
Noah: Luther’s post “Quit Apologizing for Being American”

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Rich: Memphis for FreedomFest
Charlie: Buying an Aaron Judge shirt for his son
Jim: Being in Memphis with his son
Noah: Swim meets

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Rich: MBD’s piece “After Populism”
Charlie: Johnathan Adler’s magazine piece "The Restrained Roberts Court"
MBD: Armond White’s piece "Mission: Impossible’s Actor-Auteur Theory"
Dominic: Charlie’s post “Re: What Is Kamala Harris Trying to Say?"

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Rich: Megyn Kelly’s Fourth of July party
Charlie: The Hunt produced by the Jaguars
MBD: Tin Tin books in French
Dominic: Major League Cricket

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Noah: Amity Shlae's piece "The Curse of Bigness"
Charlie: Jim’s Jolt today "Disney Enters a Crisis of Its Own Making"
Jim: Jeff Blehar’s “Joe Biden Can Look Past Hunter’s Sordid Life; He Doesn’t Have to Enable It”
MBD: Maddy’s movie review "Sound of Freedom’s Moral Clarity"

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Noah: Backing down on his remodeling project
Charlie: Amazon Prime show, Jury Duty
Jim: Upset with JetBlue
MBD: Mary Harrington’s book “Feminism against Progress”

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Noah: MBD’s piece “Prevent College Debt, Don’t Just Forgive It”
Charlie: Matt Continetti’s magazine piece “Supply Side, Still”
Maddy: NR's editorial "Josh Shapiro’s Shameful Betrayal on School Choice"
Michael: Noah’s piece “The Disinformation Industry’s Jig Is Up”

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Noah: The Adirondacks
Charlie: Setting off fireworks in the street
Maddy: Apple TV show Hijack
Michael: Fourth of July party

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Rich: Also Dan
Charlie: Dan’s speedy SCOTUS writeups
Maddy: Armond White’s piece "The Counterfeit Indiana Jones"
Noah: Charlie’s piece “The Supreme Court’s Low Approval Ratings Have Nothing to Do with Its Rulings”

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Rich: Domingo German’s perfect game
Charlie: The SCOTUS student-loan decisions
Maddy: Making lasagna
Noah: Redoing a shed roof

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Rich: Charlie’s webathon pitch "How to Defeat a Mass Delusion"
Charlie: Jim Geraghty’s Jolt "Barack Obama Gets Populism All Wrong"
Jim: Jeff Blehar’s piece “Nancy Pelosi’s Sudden Conversion Experience”
Noah: Bobby Miller’s post from November 2022, “Originalists Should Reject the ‘Independent State Legislature’ Theory”

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Rich: Asteroid City
Charlie: The College World Series
Jim: Visiting a used bookstore
Noah: Seeing his brother’s band at The Meadowlands

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Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Jeff discuss the loss of the submersible 'Titan,' the ongoing parade of absurd stories about the most conservative Supreme Court justices, and what can be done about Covid-era learning loss.

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Rich: His own webathon piece "These People Have to Be Stopped. Help Us Do It"
Charlie: Noah’s Jolt "Every Lawyer’s Nightmare Client"
MBD: Jim’s post “Do Wuhan Institute of Virology Scientists Often Fall from the Building’s Roof?”
Noah: Becket Adams's piece “The Press Is Making a Huge Mistake”

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Rich: Saw a game a Citi Field
Charlie: A remote-control shark
MBD: Father’s Day feast
Noah: Also a Father’s Day feast

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Rich: Scott Howard’s piece "Don’t Let Western Civ Fall"
Charlie: Dominic Pino’s post "Bastiat-Posting"
Maddy: Caroline Downey’s piece "Sexually Abused by Her Father, Teen Sought Help but Was Steered into Medical Transition"
Jeff: Around White’s piece “Asteroid City’s Ground Zero Fantasy”

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Rich: Hillsdale history courses
Charlie: Praising thunderstorms
Maddy: Making smoothies
Jeff: Polish history

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Rich: Andy McCarthy’s post "Frivolous Trump Argument No. 1: Classified Intelligence Reports Compiled by Government Agencies Are ‘Personal Records’ under the Presidential Records Act"
Charlie: Jim’s magazine piece "Notes on Fatherhood"
Jim: The upcoming NR print magazine
Noah: Dan McLaughlin’s piece “Donald Trump Is a Waste of the Right’s Political Energy”

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Rich: Trip to Lisbon.
Charlie: Italian wine arrived
Jim: Southwest waterfront in D.C.
Noah: Rain

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Noah: Michael’s magazine piece “Let Go the Smartphone”
Charlie: Michael’s piece “The Day That Was Orange”
Michael: Rich’s piece “Don’t Erase the Anglo-Saxons”
Jeff: Dan McLaughlin’s magazine piece “The DeSantis Campaign So Far”

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Noah: The Canadian smoke
Charlie: Vacation
Michael: New fountain pens
Jeff: The Jam

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Rich: Megyn Kelly’s piece “Why I’m Done with ‘Preferred Pronouns’”
Jim: Rich’s piece “Trump Is Wrong about ‘Woke’”
Noah: Rich’s piece “DeSantis Exposed”
Abigail: Harvey Mansfield’s piece “To the Class of 2023: On Self-Censorship”

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Rich: Swallows
Jim: Disappointing flag football season ending
Noah: End of the school year
Abigail: Graduating

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Rich: NR editorial "Virginia Joins the Movement against Credentialism"
MBD: Noah’s piece “From Trump Avoidance to Anti-Trump Pileup"
Maddy: John’s post “Why It Makes Sense for DeSantis to Hit Trump on Abortion”
Jeff: Jim’s Jolt “Trump 2024 Shaping Up to Be Even Dumber Than Trump 2020”

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Rich: Little Mermaid (it was terrible)
MBD: Middle-aged country music
Maddy: Seinfeld performance
Jeff: The Grateful Dead

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Rich: Ari Blaff’s piece "Bud Light Faces ‘Hurricane Mulvaney’ Moment as Sales Drop for Sixth Straight Week"
Jim: Andy’s magazine piece “How the Bidens Got Rich”
MBD: Andrew Fowler's piece “The Catholic Players Who Shaped Baseballl”
Noah: John McCormack’s magazine piece “Sorry, Trump Lost”

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Rich: Miami Heat
Jim: BBQ
MBD: Sean McMeekin
Noah: The viral firestorm over his recent cover story

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Rich: Also the Dodgers editorial
MBD: Abigail Anthony’s recent culture pieces
Maddy: NR's editorial "The Dodgers Promote Anti-Catholicism"
Jeff: Noah Rothman’s magazine cover piece "The War on Things That Work"

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Rich: Buying a six-pack of Bud Light
MBD: Stop Making Sense
Maddy: Don Giovanni
Jeff: The Revolutionaries

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Rich: NR's editorial "Bellevue Hospital’s Disgraceful Reaction to the Viral Citi Bike Video"
Charlie: Brian Garner’s magazine piece “How Children Once Learned to Write”
Jim: The gang-tackle of Biden’s stance on the 14th Amendment
Noah: Rich’s piece “The Busing of Migrants Has Worked”

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Rich: Pick-up game of basketball
Charlie: Trip to Italy
Jim: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Noah: Memorial Day

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Rich: NR's editorial "Work Requirements Just Make Sense"
Charlie: John McCormack’s piece “The Kermit Gosnell of Colorado”
Maddy: Charlie’s piece “I Love Pete Buttigieg’
Michael: Wilfred Reilly’s piece “The Glaring Problem with Biden’s White-Supremacy Warning”

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Rich: Beastie Boys song "Sabotage"
Charlie: Renting a pickup truck
Maddy: The Tenement Museum
Michael: Getting away for the weekend

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Rich: Jordan McGillis and Clay Robinson's magazine piece “Why the CHIPS Act Will Fail”
Charlie: Noah’s piece "The Collusion Narrative’s Problems Were Obvious Even in Trump’s First Year"
Jim: NR's editorial "The Shoddy Russia Investigation"
Noah: Jeff Blehar’s post “Our Cultural Obsession with Racism Goes Virtual”

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Rich: A recent speech by Brian Kemp
Charlie: Baseball in the front yard
Jim: Visiting the Freer Gallery of Art for Mother’s Day
Noah: A disappointing pool opening

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Rich: Brittany Berstein’s piece "Chip Roy Warns Congress Will ‘Blow Crap Up’ If Biden Bypasses It on the Debt Ceiling"
Charlie: Albert Eisenberg’s magazine piece, “The Plight of the Detransitioners”
Dominic: Jason Poje’s piece “After 20 Years as a Prosecutor in Illinois, I Quit”
Noah: NR’s editorial “The Jordan Neely Tragedy”

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Rich: Almost getting a ball at a Yankees game
Charlie: Jags season tickets
Dominic: Went to a Yankees game in NYC
Noah: Weed killer that doesn’t work

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Rich: Neal B. Freeman’s piece “The DeSantis Rebound Begins Now”
Charlie: Rich’s piece “The Absurd 14th Amendment Option on the Debt”
Maddy: Andy’s coverage of the Trump–Carroll civil rape case
Jim: Charlie’s piece “Joe Biden Is the Democrats’ Problem”

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Rich: Has a spider trapped in his bathtub
Charlie: RollerCoaster Tycoon
Maddy: Jack Ryan
Jim: High school theater performances

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Rich: Dan’s piece on SCOTUS (coming soon!)
Charlie: Noah’s post "Cream and Sugar with Your Cup of Personal Moral Defect?"
MBD: Charlie’s piece "Florida Republicans Can’t Stop Winning"
Dominic: Charlie’s piece "The Democrats’ Tax Problem"

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Rich: Hanging out with NR readers at an event
Charlie: Solo parent weekend
MBD: Infernal Affairs
Dominic: Yugoslavia

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Rich: Jim's Jolt from today, "The Biden Administration Hopes You Forget about the Vaccine-Mandate Debacle"
Charlie: Andy McCarthy’s piece, “Why Trump Can’t Win”
Jim:Dave Yost's piece, “Rogue Prosecutors Threaten the Rule of Law”
Noah: John McCormack's piece, “Democrats Finally Admit Conservatives Were Right about the Equal Rights Amendment”

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Rich: Sarah’s cross-country flight
Charlie: Going to England
Jim: Driving with his son
Noah: His kids playing in the same football league

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Editors Picks:

Rich: Jim’s post "Don’t Ask Stacey Abrams to Handle Your Money"
Charlie: Jim’s Jolt "All Elon Musk All the Time"
MBD: Ian Tuttle’s magazine piece "T. S. Eliot’s Afterlife"

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Rich: New York diners
Charlie: The Jags
MBD: His dog

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Rich, Charlie, Maddy, and Jack discuss the House hearing on “hate speech,” the situation at the border, and more.

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Dan McLaughlin’s piece “Michael Tomasky/New Republic
Charlie: Nr Editorial “Mayor Adams Is Right”
Jim: NR’s Forgotten Fact Checks feature
Phil: Yuval Levin’s post “Some Lame-Duck Warning Signs”

Light Items:

Rich: The Hawks/Bulls game
Charlie: The Titans/Jags game
Jim: The logistics of the Christmas season
Phil: Not going to see Avatar

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Editors Picks:

Rich: Seth Cropsey's piece “A ‘Woke’ Naval Academy Hurts Our Military”
Charlie: Dan McLaughlin’s magazine piece “Charles Schulz at 100”
Maddy: Alexandra’s piece “When Human Life Begins”
MBD: Nate Hochman’s piece “The Republican ‘Cope’”

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Rich: Killer robots — again
Charlie: Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Maddy: Nativity set
Michael: In-laws having a baby!

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Ed Whalen’s pieces on Slate/Colorado case
Charlie: Rich’s piece “DeSantis Derangement Syndrome”
Jim: Charlie’s piece “Aren’t You All Tired of This Crap?”
Jack: Dominic Pino’s pieces about the rail strike

Light Items:

Rich: A video interview he did with Paul Kennedy
Charlie: Cheers
Jim: Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack
Jack: Ray Bradbury’s The Martian Chronicles

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Dan McLaughlin’s post “Jonathan Chait is Once again Wrong about Ron DeSantis”
Charlie: Andy’s piece on the oath keepers verdict
Maddy: Michael’s piece “What God Hath Joined”
MBD: Ramesh’s magazine piece “Never Again”

Light Items:

Rich: His talk at Marquette
Charlie: Elf on the Shelf
Maddy: Best episode of Seinfeld “The Limo”
MBD: Guardians of the Galaxy soundtrack

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Ramesh’s upcoming magazine piece making case against Trump
Charlie: Michael’s piece, too
Jim: MBD’s “Two Cheers for Elon Musk’s Twitter”
MBD: Andy’s piece “Trump’s Dinner with Fuentes and Ye Renews a Key Question for GOP Voters"

Light Items:

Rich: Escape from Rome
Charlie: Trevor Lawrence
Jim: Jets game in the monsoon
MBD: Thanksgiving surprises

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Dominic Pino’s piece “The U.S. Still Doesn’t Care about Soccer”
Charlie: Dalibor Rohac “What Is Ron DeSantis’s Foreign-Policy Vision?”
Jim: Dominic Pino’s piece "Largest Freight-Rail Union Rejects Biden-Brokered Deal"
Michael: Charlie’s piece “Don’t Run”

Light Items:

Rich: The feeling you get when you’re buying a present for someone else that you really want for yourself
Charlie: San Juan’s old castle
Jim: Community
Michael: Rewatching Children of Men

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Rich: Jim’s Jolt from today “What You Need to Know about the Colossal Mess of FTX"
MBD: Yuval Levin’s post "Remembering My Friend Mike Gerson"
Maddy: Michael New’s post “The Texas Heartbeat Act Has Already Saved Thousands of Lives”
Jack: Peter Gattuso “Scenes from Don Bolduc’s New Hampshire Misfire”

Light Items:

Rich: School of War podcast
MBD: A quiet house
Maddy: TFAS Dinner
Jack: An injury

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Dan’s piece "These Exit Polls Show How Toxic Trump Is Now"
Jim: Dan’s post “The Tragedy of Kari Lake”
MBD: Jim’s piece “Biden’s Lost Marbles"
Phil: John McCormack’s magazine piece “Abortion on the Ballot”

Light Items:

Rich: The NR cruise
Jim: Colorado Avalanche game
MBD: Picking the guitar back up
Phil: Thanksgiving

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Charlie’s piece “Donald Trump’s GOP Establishment Has Failed”
Charlie: Dan McLaughlin's post "Lessons from the 1998 Midterms"
MBD: Yuval Levin’s post “The Message of the Midterms”
Phil: Second's MBD's Yuval pick

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Rich: Stuart Little
Charlie: The 2006 Charlotte’s Web movie
MBD: Photo of Roger Scruton
Phil: Mallet finger

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jim’s Jolt today “Midterm Predictions: The ‘Red Tsunami’ Comes into View Once More"
Charlie: Rich’s piece “The Trump-to-DeSantis Swing"
Jim: Editorial “Count All the Votes on Election Night”
MBD: Charlie’s piece “Joe Biden Is the President of the United States, He Is Not an Innocent Bystander”

Light Items:

Rich: Prairie dogs at the local zoo
Charlie: His kids opening his birthday gifts
Jim: Traveling to Denver
MBD: Standard Time

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Ari Blaff and all the news writers
Charlie: Bobby Miller’s post "The Continued Smearing of Justice Thomas"
MBD: Today’s Morning Jolt, "The GOP Wave the Pundits Didn’t Want to See"
Phil: Brittany Bernstein’s piece “How Long Will It Take to Get Battleground-State Election Results?"

Light Items:

Rich: Alaric the Goth
Charlie: Food trucks
MBD: The Economist’s podcast on Xi Jinping
Phil: Horror movies

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jack’s piece “Something Wicked, Something Great"
Charlie: Dan’s piece “How the Campaigns Are Breaking Entering the Final Week"
Jack: Rich’s piece “No, Democracy Is Not on the Ballot”
Jim: Jeff Blehar’s post “2010 Redux or 2014 All Over Again? A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Story"

Light Items:

Rich: Fixing his computer
Charlie: His son bargaining while trick or treating
Jack: Speaking at CUA
Jim: Fire pits

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Andy’s magazine piece "How to Fix the FBI"
MBD: Kat Rosenfield’s magazine piece “Why I Keep Getting Mistaken for a Conservative"
Maddy: Rich’s piece "Fetterman Wasn’t ‘Transparent’ for Showing Up at a Debate He Couldn’t Dodge"
Phil: Charlie’s piece “Democrats Don’t Actually Believe Democracy Is at Stake in the Midterms”

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Rich: An unfortunate ticketing experience
MBD: His kids enjoying Halloween
Maddy: A dramatic golf cart story
Phil: His Hillsdale trip

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Ross Douthat’s magazine piece “Vesper’s Beautiful Brave New Landscape”
Charlie: Rich’s piece “Great Art Is Not an Enemy of the Climate
Jack: Isaac’s post “Experts: Words Have No Meaning”
Jim: Isaac Schorr and Brittany Bernstein's piece “The Media’s Last-Ditch Effort to Teach Voters What They Should Care About"

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Rich: Game 3 of the Yankees/Astros series
Charlie: The movie 18 1/2
Jack: The month of October
Jim: State Department Editors listeners

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Leah Libresco Sargeant's magazine piece, “Why Is John Fetterman’s Campaign Telling Us about His High-School Football Days?”
Michael: Jim’s post, “Why Is John Fetterman’s Campaign Telling Us about His High-School Football Days?"
Maddy: NR's editorial, "No Truss"
Phil: Jim’s post, "Why Is John Fetterman’s Campaign Telling Us about His High-School Football Days?"

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Rich: Empires of the Normans by Levi Roach
Michael: Fall foliage
Maddy: She’s officially an aunt!
Phil: The Jets

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Rich: Andy McCarthy’s piece "Grassley: Chinese-Government Front Company Paid Biden for Work Done While He Was VP"
Charlie: Dan Foster’s piece “Game of Norms”
Jack: Samuel Gregg “A Threat Worse Than Socialism?”
Jim: Rich’s piece “Biden Deserves What He’s Going to Get on the Economy”

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Rich: Alabama–Tennessee game
Charlie: his son’s baseball game
Jack: Hockey
Jim: Jets!

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Sebastian Junger's magazine piece "Inside the Shameful Cancellation of Jihad Rehab"
Charlie: Jim Geraghty’s post "Why Biden’s Absence from Democratic Campaign Rallies Matters"
Maddy: Dan McLaughlin’s post "Where Tulsi Gabbard Belongs"
MBD: Dan McLaughlin’s piece "Saying ‘Regime’ Is Bad, Except When We Say It"

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Rich: Starbucks name misunderstanding
Charlie: Single dad for the week
Maddy: Trader Joe’s cinnamon-apple tea
MBD: Off the Grid with Curtis Stone

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Rich: Dominic Pino’s piece "The Entirely Predictable Failure of California High-Speed Rail"
Charlie: Luther Abel’s post “The German Speech Police Come for Memes”
Jim: Charlie’s post "The New York Times: Biden’s a Serial Liar, but Trump"
Phil: Editorial “California Crazy”

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Rich: WABC'sBernie McGuirk, R.I.P.
Charlie: Going to a Gators game
Jim: Apple picking
Phil: Sukkot booth

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Rich: Christine Rosen’s mag piece "Kamala Harris Finds Her Level of Incompetence"
Charlie: Carrie Severino and Frank Scaturro's piece "Justice Jackson’s Argument against Race Neutrality Is Faux Originalism"
Jim: MBD’s piece “Our Nuclear Options”
Maddy: John McCormack’s piece “What to Make of the Herschel Walker Abortion Allegation?”

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Rich: Dan Jones’s book Powers and Thrones
Charlie: Rocket-launching season
Jim: The Buckley Dinner
Maddy: Visiting Michigan

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Editors’s Picks:

Rich: MBD’s piece “Our Nuclear Options”
Charlie: Jim’s post “What If the Unthinkable Isn’t Quite So Unthinkable Anymore?”
MBD: Rick’s magazine column “Avenue of Broken Dreams”
Jack: Charles Hilu's pieces "The DEI Bureaucracy Is Failing, Even on Its Own Terms" and "Free Markets Flourish at the Reagan Ranch"

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Rich: Aaron Judge
Charlie: Top Gun: Maverick
MBD: Antonio Lotti
Jack: Chicken noodle soup

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Rich: Charlie’s piece "Paul Waldman’s WaPo Defense of Joe Biden’s Illegal Conduct Is So Brazen It Defies Belief"
Charlie: NR’s editorial “Joe Manchin Did Not Get Played on Permitting Reform”
MBD: Wells King and Dan Vaughn Jr.'s piece, "The American Camry"
Dominic: Andrew Stuttaford’s magazine cover story “How Europe Invited Its Energy Crisis"

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Rich: The Buckley Prize Dinner
Charlie: His new podcast, which can be found here
MBD: The Mets
Dominic: Visiting ballparks

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Rich: Nate Hochman’s piece "MLB’s Unseemly Support for Youth Gender Transitions"
Charlie: Phil’s piece “Blake Masters and the Limits of Fight Club Conservatism”
MBD: Russ Latino “How the Jackson Water Shortage Happened and How It Can Be Solved”
Phil: NR’s Editorial “Biden’s Looming Giveaway to Iran”

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Rich: Sports
Charlie: Transferring vinyl records to digital
MBD: Top Gun: Maverick
Phil: Watching RRR

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On this special edition of The Editors, Rich is joined by Goldwater’s vice president of litigation, Jon Riches, and former NR writer, Christian Schneider. Among other things, they discuss how public schools are hiding information from citizens and what we can do to stop them from doing this.

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Caroline Downey's piece "Adam Kinzinger Attacks Rich Lowry on Meet the Press"
Charlie: Ellen Carmichael “Worried about Student-Loan Debt? Start Firing Administrators”
Alexandra: Charlie’s piece from the magazine “A Long Goodbye to Trump”
Jim: Rich’s piece “Republicans Can’t Run and Hide on Abortion”

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Rich: Bags of salt
Charlie: Ken Burns Vietnam documentary
Alexandra: Going to a Twins game
Jim: Train-wreck: Woodstock 1999

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Rich: The latest print issue
Charlie: Editorial on student loan debacle "Biden’s Student-Debt Decree Wrong on Every Level"
Maddy: Michael’s piece “The Fauci Effect”
MBD: Charlie’s piece “Joe Biden Illegally ‘Canceling’ Student Loans Would Be a Middle Finger to America
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Rich: Household chores
Charlie: An old SNL sketch
Maddy: Wind chimes
MBD: Mopeds

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Jim: Jack’s piece “Biden’s Historians Hurt America, Dishonor Their Profession"
Charlie: Jim’s Jolt from today "The #Resistance Playbook Fails Democrats in Florida"
Alexandra: KDW’s Tuesday from today "Abortion Facts Precede Abortion Law"

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Jim: It's Publication Day! Check out Gathering Five Storms
Charlie: A lightning item
Alexandra: Incredible pancake recipe (from the Food Lab cookbook)

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Luther Abel’s piece “The Oakland Phonics Fee-Ass-Co"
Phil: Brittany Berstein’s piece “Big-City Public Schools Struggle with Declining Enrollment Post-Pandemic"
Maddy: Caroline Downey’s “The Compromised Research of the Media's Favorite Child Gender-Transition Advocate"
Jack: Dan McLaughlin’s piece (coming this weekend) “The New Republicanism"

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Rich: Late summer, and fall is coming
Phil: Finding something useful on Twitter
Maddy: Back in New York City
Jack: Random gas stations

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Rich: Andrew Stuttaford’s post "The Baltic Monuments War: The Narva Tank Is Rolled Out"
Charlie: Dominic Pino “Free Markets Are in the National Interest”
Alexandra: Carrington’s piece "Don’t Conflate Abortion and Losing a Baby to Miscarriage"
Jim: Rich's piece "Merrick Garland Is on a Path to the Abyss"

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Rich: Participating in an Intelligence Squared debate
Charlie: Espresso martinis
Alexandra: Pickles
Jim: Vacation in France

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Ryan Mills’s piece “Colorado’s Offender-Centered, Anti-Cop Policies Blamed for ‘Crime Tsunami’"
Charlie: Andy’s coverage of the latest Trump saga
Maddy: Ryan Mills’s piece “Schools Are Wasting Covid Cash”
MBD: Mark Wright’s Corner post “Yes, Her Emails”

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Rich: History of Europe podcast
Charlie: Bluey
Maddy: House sitting
MBD: John Coltrane

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Rich: Andy’s piece “What the FBI’s ‘Raid’ on Mar-a-Lago Is Really About"
Charlie: Rick Brookhiser’s Corner post “David McCullough: A Gracious Man”
Alexandra: KDW’s “For Pro-Lifers, the Fight Is Only Just Beginning"
MBD: Charlie’s piece “If the Raid on Mar-a-Lago Was Not Justified, Then What?"

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Rich: Rickey Henderson biography
Charlie: Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind
Alexandra: Going to a local Republican club meeting
MBD: Better Call Saul

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Rich: Dan’s piece on “Ron DeSantis Is Right on the Executive Duty to Enforce the Law"
MBD: Maddy’s piece “No, Let’s Not Get Sterilized”
Phil: Dan McLaughlin’s piece “Vin Scully: A Personal Remembrance"
Jack: Read MBD’s piece "The Leader of the Opposition"

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Rich: Vengeance
MBD: The Mets
Phil: Nervous Yankees fan
Jack: Tame Impala

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jerry Hendrix’s magazine piece "The Navy’s Littoral Hubris"
Alexandra: John McCormack’s piece “American Abortion Laws Do Not Require Delaying Treatment for a Mother’s Life-Threatening Condition"
Jim: Jimmy Quinn’s coverage of Pelosi’s Taiwan trip
Dan: Isaac Schorr’s piece “Biden Administration Declares ‘Open Season’ on Religious Hospitals That Object to Gender Transitions"

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Rich: Showing up too early for a train at Union Station
Alexandra: A garden update
Jim: Assateague ponies
Dan: Everything Everywhere All at Once was terrible

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Jim: Brittany Bernstein’s piece "Eric Greitens’s Long Journey from ‘Obama Fanboy’ to ‘RINO Hunter’"
MBD: KDW’s Corner post "Thanks for the ‘Memory’"
Jimmy: Andrew Stuttaford’s print piece "Putin’s Genocide in Ukraine"

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Jim: Valley Uprising movie
MBD: Preparing for vacation
Jimmy: Celebrating his birthday

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Jim: Dominic Pino’s piece "Oil-Tanker Orders at a Record Low"
Alexandra: John McCormack’s piece "Democrats’ ‘Contraception’ Bill Overrides Religious-Freedom Law and Protects Abortion"
Dan: Xan’s piece and Jack Fowler’s piece “Republican Attorneys General March into Battle"

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Jim: Space Camp
Alexandra: Trip to Atlanta
Dan: Our Team by Luke Epplin

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Rich: Yuval Levin’s piece "A Promising New Electoral Count Act Reform Proposal"
Maddy: John McCormack’s piece “Democrats’ ‘Contraception’ Bill Overrides Religious-Freedom Law and Protects Abortion"
MBD: Dan McLaughlin’s piece “Slate’s Sleazy Claim That Amy Coney Barrett Isn’t as Smart as Her Male Colleagues”

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Rich: The Genius of Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
Maddy: Sunburns/sunscreen
MBD: Cornbread

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Overturning of Roe coverage from the magazine
Charlie: Dan’s magazine piece "How the 2012 Election Deranged America"
Jim: Charlie’s piece “Why Isn’t Hunter Biden Facing a Federal Gun Investigation?"
Phil: Jim’s Morning Jolt today

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Rich: Crawfish boil
Charlie: Listening to Civil War music
Jim:Assateague and Chincoteague
Phil: Sukkot booth

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Rich, MBD, Charlie, and Maddy discuss the horrific story of a 10-year-old girl who was raped in Ohio, the discussion between Professor Khiara M. Bridges and Senator Josh Hawley, and whether the GOP will be able to hold on to Hispanic voters.

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jim’s Morning Jolt from today
Charlie: Dan McLaughlin’s piece "Jonathan Chait Writes the Same Ron DeSantis Column Again, Is Still Wrong"
Alexandra: Yuval Levin’s Corner post "The New Puritans"
Jim: Dominic Pino’s work

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Rich: Kings Dominion
Charlie: Water-heater issues
Alexandra: Surprise book party
Jim: Walking around Washington, D.C.

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: The current NR webathon
Charlie: Also NR’s editorial on Boris
Maddy: NR’s editorial on Boris’s resignation
MBD: Kyle Smith’s piece “Against Suicide Rock”

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Rich: Osprey military history books
Charlie: Hibachi restaurant
Maddy: Capitol 4th Concert dress rehearsal
MBD: Summer camp

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Rich: Dan McLaughlin's piece “America Made the Declaration of Independence”
Charlie: KDW’s piece “Lessons from the Left’s Implosion”
Alexandra: MBD's magazine piece “The Modest Burden of Life”
Jim: KDW’s Tuesday newsletter "Joe Biden’s Gas-Station Demagoguery"

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Rich: Minions: Rise of Gru
Charlie: St. Augustine dolphin boat trip
Alexandra: Her new book, "Tearing Us Apart"
Jim: The 4th of July

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Also Andy’s pieces
Charlie: Dan McLaughlin’s pieces on Joshua Zeitz
MBD: Andy’s pieces on Cassidy Hutchinson
Andrew: Andrew Follett's magazine piece "Too-Political Science"

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Rich: Portland Sea Dogs game
Charlie: Sonic the Hedgehog boardgame
MBD: Molly Tuttle and the Golden Highway
Andrew: Being in NM

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Rich, Charlie, and Jim discuss the Supreme Court’s decisions in Dobbs and Kennedy, the progressive movement's criticisms of Clarence Thomas, the possibility that Donald Trump will announce that he’s running for president, and more.

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Charlie’s takedown of George Will
Michael: NR’s editorial ‘A Stain Erased'
Maddy: Isaac Schorr’s reporting from the Supreme Court today
Phil: The NR homepage today, focused on the Dobbs decision

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Rich: Following the Yankees’ season
Michael: Inflatable waterslides
Maddy: Women’s sports rally
Phil: The allure of DIY

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Rich, Jim, Charlie, and Alexandra discuss the press’s decision to acknowledge that the president is old, Eric Greitens’s weird commercial, and the New Yorker’s profile of Governor Ron DeSantis.

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On today’s episode of The Editors, Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Maddy discussed President Biden’s executive order regulating “conversation therapy,” the White House’s inchoate approach to energy production, and the role Mike Pence played on January 6, 2021.

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Christine Rosen’s recent magazine piece
Charlie: KDW Corner post “Copy-Desk Memo to ABC News”
Alexandra: Forgotten Fact-Checks from this week
MBD: Upcoming Capital Record episode with Oren Cass

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Rich: Denver, CO, Heterodox Academy conference
Charlie: Top Golf
Alexandra: Reading about Alice Waters
MBD: The Partition

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Kyle's piece "Progressives Get Mugged by Reality and Also by Muggers”
Alexandra: Christine Rosen’s magazine piece “Ban Kids from Social Media”
MBD: Rich's piece “Biden Is an Old Man Overwhelmed by Events”
Phil: Andy’s piece "The Left’s Political-Violence Problem"

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Rich: Buying more Yankees memorabilia
Alexandra: Her book coming out on June 28th
MBD: Ford vs Ferrari
Phil: His new swim watch

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Jim’s Morning Jolt from today, “Mr. President, Stop Complaining”
Charlie: Rich’s piece "The United States Has an Epidemic of Gang Shootings"
Maddy: Jack Butler’s D-Day Corner post "‘The Boys of Pointe du Hoc’"
Jim: Dan McLaughlin’s piece “When Does Joe Biden Start Firing People?”

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Rich: Big delivery
Charlie: 1980s BBC The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe series
Maddy: Max Hasting’s book Inferno
Jim: Top Gun: Maverick

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Rich: Jim Geraghty’s Jolt “Joe Biden Is Too Old to Be President”
Charlie: Lorie Smith’s piece “Why My Case Could Pick Up Where Masterpiece Cakeshop Left Off"
Maddy: John McCormack’s piece “Do Americans Really Want an Octogenarian in the Oval Office?”
MBD: KDW's post "Why Republicanism Faded"

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Rich: Epic Wiffle ball game
Charlie: The Man Who Knew Too Much
Maddy: Diluting Juice
MBD: Going to Ireland

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Kyle’s piece "Norm Macdonald Killed before He Died"
Charlie: Kevin’s pieces on America
Alexandra: Dan McLaughlin’s Memorial Day piece "The Lincoln Memorial at 100"
Jim: Andrew Stuttaford’s CM work

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Rich: Fly-catching season
Charlie: Run DMC
Alexandra: Crawfish boil
Jim: Going to Gettysburg

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Douglas Murray’s magazine piece, "Western Civ Has Got to Stay"
Charlie: KDW’s pieces on Saul Cornell
Maddy: The Week in the most recent issue
Phil: Jim Geraghty’s Jolt from today

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Rich: Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd
Charlie: Kindergarten graduation ceremony for his son
Maddy: “The Heroic Minute”
Phil: Better Call Saul

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Rich: Charlie’s piece “A Princeton Classics Professor Gets Railroaded”
Charlie: The most recent magazine issue
Alexandra: Schorr and Bernstein’s “Media Aim to Rewrite Catholic Teachings after Pelosi Denied Communion”
Jim: Charlie’s piece “Biden’s Covid Policy Is Incoherent — but That’s Politics"

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Rich: Transfixed by hockey playoffs
Charlie: Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp
Alexandra: Visiting the Beach
Jim: Flag Football double-header

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Brien Riedl's piece “The Democrats’ Cynical ‘Greedflation’ Narrative"
Charlie: Kyle’s piece “So Long, Disinfo Nanny”
Maddy: Nate Hochman’s piece “The Miraculous Rediscovery of Women”
MBD: Charlies’s piece “Democrats Can’t Fix What’s Wrong with Joe Biden”

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Rich: Twitter blowback on an unpopular opinion
Charlie: Pulled pork nachos
Maddy: Going on a silent retreat
MBD: James Poulos

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Rich: Kyle’s piece “What They’re Not Telling You about the Buffalo Shooter”
Charlie: Kyle’s piece “Biden Calls for More Cowbell”
Jim: Mark Joffe’s piece “Have We Reached Peak China?”
MBD: KDW’s Tuesday "The Buffalo Blame Game"

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Rich: Sunlight
Charlie: Being a Yankees fan right now
Jim: Apollo 10 1/2
MBD: Lilacs blooming

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Also Jim’s Morning Jolt
Charlie: Dan McLaughlin’s piece “No, the Conservative Justices Didn’t Lie about Roe v. Wade"
Jim: Dominic Pino’s piece “How Government Made the Baby-Formula Shortage Worse"
MBD: Jim’s Jolt today "The Mysterious Case of Kathy Barnette"

Light Items:

Rich: The Northman is terrible
Charlie: A notable conversation with his son
Jim: Elementary-school theatre
MBD: Milt Jackson

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Rich: NR's editorial "Midge Decter, R.I.P."
Charlie: Praising John’s coverage of WHPA
Alexandra: John McCormack’s piece "How the Democrats’ Abortion Bill Enshrines a Right to Abort Baby Girls Because They Are Girls"
MBD: Armond White’s piece "Kendrick Lamar’s Deepfake"

Light Items:

Rich: NRI conference
Charlie: Missing every exciting moment of last night’s Yankees game
Alexandra: Taking up watercoloring
MBD: Getting and email from Amy Chua

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Rich: Jim’s post “You’re Not Helping, ‘Senior American Officials’”
Charlie: All of Xan’s recent pieces on Roe
MBD: KDW’s piece “The Case of Roe v. Reason”

Light Items:

Rich: Wagyu beef
Charlie: NYC trip
MBD:Joshua Judges Ruth, Lyle Lovett

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Rich: Mike Gallagher's magazine piece "Woke Warriors"
Alexandra: John McCormack’s piece "Why Matt Dolan Is Surging in Ohio’s GOP Senate Primary"
Maddy: J. Joel Alicea's piece "Why Originalism Is Consistent with Natural Law: A Reply to Critics"
Jim: NR's editorial on the leak "An Egregious Leak"
Phil: Ed Whelan’s post "Outstanding Draft Majority Opinion in Dobbs"

Light Items:

Alexandra: Her crazy evening yesterday
Maddy: A funny elevator experience
Jim: Jets drafts
Phil: Getting a seat on the 7 Train

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Rich: Dan McLaughlin’s piece “The Wrong Tool for Punishing Trump”
Charlie: Matt Continetti’s magazine piece “How the Right Misunderstands Its History”
Maddy: David Harsanyi's piece “Biden’s Ministry of Truth”
MBD: Mike Gallagher’s magazine piece “Woke Warriors”

Light Items:

Rich: The Viking Heart by Arthur Herman
Charlie: T-Ball Championship
Maddy: AirLingus losing her luggage
MBD: Invincible Syncopations

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Allen Guelzo’s cover piece "Our Shelter In the Storms"
Charlie: MBD’s piece "Obama’s Crusade against Fake News"
MBD: KDW “There’s No Such Thing as a Value-Neutral Education”

Light Items:

Rich: History of Europe podcast
Charlie: T-ball playoffs
MBD: Spring bulbs

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Rich: Andrew Stuttaford’s coverage of the Elon Musk Twitter drama
Charlie: KDW’s The Tuesday for today
Alexandra: Kyle’s piece “The World’s Biggest Rock Band Is a Christian Rock Band”
Jim: Neal B. Freeman’s “Divorce, Florida-Style”

Light Items:

Rich: Newly remodeled La Guardia airport
Charlie: Biblical thunderstorms
Alexandra: Watching Easter Parade
Jim: High-school robotics teams

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Rich: Charlie’s piece “The CNN+ Catastrophe"
Charlie: Kyle’s piece “Johnny Depp’s Spectacular Self-Demolition”
MBD: Daniel Cameron’s “Roe’s Days Are Numbered”
Andrew: Robert Atkinson's magazine piece “Breaking Up Big Tech Would Help Xi Jinping”

Light Items:

Rich: An amusing baseball call
Charlie: Visit from Jack Fowler
MBD: Hummingbirds
Andrew: His son and holidays

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Rich: Andy’s weekend piece "Capitol Riot Overkill: Case That Should Never Have Been Brought Ends in Acquittal"
Michael: Arthur Herman “The Drone-Warfare Revolution Is Here"
Jim: Charlie’s piece “Rolling Stone Hides the Lede”

Light Items:

Rich: Shoutout to a listener
Michael: House plants
Jim: Riding a bike

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Rich: Ryan Mill’s “A Mom’s Fight to Save Her Daughter from Trans Orthodoxy at School"
Maddy: MBD’s Corner post “Sparks of Humanity and Crimes against Humanity”
MBD: Richard Morrison “Climate Change: The SEC Turns Up the Heat”

Light Items:

Rich: Digital alarm clock fail
Maddy: Being in Omaha
MBD: Sonic 2

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Rich: Ruy Teixeira's magazine piece "Eyes Wide Shut"
Charlie: KDW’s Tuesday
Alexandra: John McCormack’s piece "When Populism Isn’t Popular"
Phil: Ryan Mill’s piece “A Mom’s Fight to Save Her Daughter from Trans Orthodoxy at School"

Light Items:

Rich: Defeated by raccoons
Charlie: Brooklyn 99
Alexandra: Trying oysters
Phil: HBO show on the Lakers

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Rich: Dominic’s piece "Utter Nonsense from Biden on Gas Prices"
Charlie: MBD’s piece “The Empty Chair”
Alexandra: Isaac Schorr’s piece "Disney Was Silent on Parental-Rights Bill until Public Pressure Campaign Began, Florida House Speaker Says"
MBD: John McCormack’s piece “The Abortion Vote That Could Haunt Democrats in November”

Light Items:

Rich: Traveling with a weak charger
Charlie: His parents visiting
Alexandra: ND debate
MBD: Making summer vacation plans

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Rich: Dan McLaughlin’s Corner post "Jonathan Chait Thinks Donald Trump Invented Italians Talking with Their Hands"
Charlie: Jim Geraghty’s piece “Russia Is Screwed”
Maddy: Dominic Pino’s piece “Biden’s Budget: ‘Defund the Police’ No More”
Jim: Peter Travers’s piece “The Wild Beasts Are Real”

Light Items:

Rich: Go listen to a Snow Leopard’s yell
Charlie: The LEGO Store
Maddy: U.K. Mother’s Day
Jim: HBO’s Winning Time

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Rich: Maddy’s piece “I Know What a Woman Is”
Charlie: MBD’s piece “Call the Experts”
MBD: Armond White's piece "Joel Coen’s Stunt Macbeth"
Maddy: Nate Hochman’s coverage of GOP governors

Light Items:

Rich: Paul Kennedy Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery
Charlie: Inventing Anna
MBD: The Philadelphia Society
Maddy: Being unofficial camera woman for Tucker Carlson’s show

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Rich: Andrew Stuttaford’s piece “Let Them Eat Lentils”
Alexandra: Charlie’s piece “The Democrats Are Building Themselves a Suicide Machine"
Jim: John Fund's piece "Veering from the Smog of War TV to Humanitarian Clarity"
Dominic: Nate’s piece "Most Americans Are Moving On from Covid. Progressive Elites Aren’t"

Light Items:

Rich: The Medieval World podcast
Alexandra: Going to a 1-year-olds birthday party
Jim: Dauphine’s Restaurant
Dominic: Officially becoming a VA resident

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Rich: The Oren Cass and Dominic Pino argument, and David Bahnsen’s CR episode with Oren
Charlie: Jim’s Wednesday Jolt "A Hard Look at the Risk of a Putin-Ordered Tactical Nuke"
MBD: Dan’s piece “The Hater’s Guide to Woodrow Wilson”
Phil: Andy’s post "New York Times Suddenly Discovers Hunter Biden Laptop and Corruption Probe Are Real"

Light Items:

Rich: NCAA Tournament
Charlie: Exploding glass shower doors
MBD: St. Patrick’s Day
Phil: Hamantaschen

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Rich: Jim Geraghty’s post “The Real ‘Especially Dangerous’ Materials in Those Ukrainian Biological-Research Labs"
Charlie: Maddy’s piece “What Is a Woman?”
Alexandra: Dan McLaughin’s piece “Baseball Fouls Off Strike Three"
Jim: Kevin’s Tuesday from today

Light Items:

Rich: Dog, the new Channing Tatum movie
Charlie: Laser tag
Alexandra: Stanley Tucci’s book Taste
Jim: NFL free agency

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Rich: Spring snowstorms
Charlie: Trying out Disney ride “Mickey’s PhilharMagic”
Maddy: Netflix show, Greatest Events of WWII in Colour
MBD: Monty Don

Light Items:

Rich: Jim’s Jolt from Thursday
Charlie: Kyle’s piece “Go Away, Fool”
Maddy: Phil’s piece “The Trans Movement Is Failing Where the Gay-Rights Movement Succeeded"
MBD: Andrew Stuttaford's post "The Coming Food Crunch: Hoarding and the Hunt for Self-Sufficiency"

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Rich: Elliot Abrams’s piece "The New Cold War"
Charlie: Ryan Ellis “Escape from Covid Island”
Alexandra: David Harsanyi’s piece “DeSantis Closes the Curtain on Covid Theater”
Jim: Ryan Mills’s piece “Ukrainian Single Mother Recounts Terrifying Escape from Kyiv: ‘Beyond Scary’”

Light Items:

Rich: Eri Hotta's book Japan 1941: Countdown to Infamy
Charlie: Amelia Island Vintage Car Exhibition
Alexandra: Charlottesville trip
Jim: Comic convention

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Rich: Nate Hochman’s piece on Ilya Shapiro
Charlie: Mark Wright in general
Maddy: Carine Hajjar’s piece “The Woke Weapon on Campus: ‘Danger’”
Andrew: Charlie’s piece “All the President’s Incoherence”

Light Items:

Rich: Starbucks's coffee cake
Charlie: George Washington
Maddy: Her dad taking cold showers
Andrew: More bars are opening

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Rich: Dan’s piece “How Republicans Should Respond to Ketanji Brown Jackson”
Charlie: Kevin’s piece “Against Judge Jackson”
Alexandra: Isaac Schorr’s report "Ukrainian-Americans Make Their Voices Heard outside D.C. Embassy: ‘It Hurts’"
Jim: Mark’s piece “Why the Russians Are Struggling”

Light Items:

Rich: His news consumption
Charlie: T-ball games
Alexandra: Emmitsburg trip
Jim: Hosting a sleepover for his twelve-year-old son

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Rich: MBD’s coverage of Ukraine
Charlie: Dominic Pino’s piece “What Putin’s Invasion Means for the Baptists of Ukraine”
MBD: Alexandra’s post “American Families Discover the Value of Catholic Schools”
Andrew: Dominic’s magazine piece “The Hubris of Modern Monetary Theory”

Light Items:

Rich: Hawks
Charlie: His kids at baseball
MBD: Jaques Reil
Andrew: Seinfeld clips

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Rich: Andrew Stuttaford Corner post “Ukraine: Sanctions? Italy: Well . . .”
Charlie: Kyle’s piece “No One Fears This Pathetic Old Geezer”
Maddy: KDW’s Tuesday column
Jim: MBD’s “The Most Dangerous Speech of the Post–Cold War Era”

Light Items:

Rich: Trip to Maine
Charlie: Golf cart ride with his kids/ the song 'Johnny B Goode'
Maddy: Nervous flyer
Jim: Going to Austin

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Rich: Ryan Mills's piece "San Francisco Voters Overwhelmingly Back Recall of Progressive School-Board Members"
Charlie: Kyle’s piece "What P. J. O’Rourke Knew"
Maddy: Charlie’s piece “Justin Trudeau Has Disgraced His Office”
MBD: Nate Hochman’s recent work

Light Items:

Rich: Reading Firepower by Paul D. Lockhart
Charlie: GrillBlazer grill gun
Maddy: Bad academic writing
MBD: Cuban music

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Rich: David Harsanyi’s piece “Team USA Crushes Turncoats”
Charlie: David Harsanyi’s piece “The Ugly Vilification of ‘Freedom’"
Alexandra: Maggie Garnett’s piece "The New Yorker’s Flawed Hit Job on Amy Coney Barrett"
Jim: Jimmy Quinn’s China coverage

Light Items:

Rich: Baseball memorabilia
Charlie: The garage saga continues
Alexandra: Fredericksburg
Jim: Super Immunity

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Rich: Charlie’s corner post “Trevor Noah Is a Moral Disgrace”
Charlie: David Harsanyi's piece “Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?”
Maddy: Dan McLaughlin’s Corner post "Nikole Hannah-Jones Responds to Our 1619 and Slavery Issue"
MBD: Butler’s piece “Yes, Let’s Call ‘Beijing’ Peking’

Light Items:

Rich: Bird-feeder news
Charlie: Steven Fry reading Sherlock Holmes
Maddy: Manhattan Institute event
MBD: Sig P210 Carry

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Ryan Mills/Isaac Schorr on U of M, Caroline Downey’s piece on Connecticut moms
Charlie: Kyle’s piece “The Book-Ban Double Standard”
Alexandra: Dominic Pino’s post “What Spotify’s CEO Could Have Said Instead"
Jim: Charlie’s piece "If Spotify’s Staff Can’t Cope with Running a Content Library, They Should Find Another Job"

Light Items:

Rich: UVa defeating Duke
Charlie: Playing a new Nintendo game
Alexandra: Going to Harper’s Ferry
Jim: Still has Covid

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Nate Hochman’s excellent work on the Georgetown Law students’ meltdown & the O’Sullivan/Orban piece on Ukraine
Charlie: Andy’s post "Biden’s BS about Gun-Manufacturer Immunity from Suit"
Maddy: Jay’s piece on Olympics history
MBD: Ed West’s magazine piece “Boris the Weak”

Light Items:

Rich: Classic Sports Illustrated with Yankees players on the covers
Charlie: T-ball
Maddy: New apartment
MBD: Readwise app

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Phil’s post “Trump’s Continuing Disgrace”
Charlie: Rich’s piece “Why Biden Can’t Embrace Covid Normality”
Alexandra: Dan’s piece “What Qualifies a Supreme Court Justice”
Jim: Alexandra’s post “Stop Telling Us to Drink a Margarita”

Light Items:

Rich: Coyotes
Charlie: Rebuilding his garage and listening to Clarence Thomas’s autobiography, My Grandfather’s Son
Alexandra: Bananagrams
Jim: The Smithsonian’s Arts and Industries Building

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Rich: Dan's piece "The Dishonest Cancellation Campaign against Ilya Shapiro"
Charlie: Dan’s magazine piece “American Slavery in the Global Context"
Maddy: Ryan Mills’s piece "Family That Fled Afghanistan with Sick Baby Rescued after Months in UAE Refugee Camp"
MBD: Charlie’s piece “#DontBrowbeatMyPete 😡”

Light Items:

Rich: Feeding peanuts to Bluejays
Charlie: The Sandlot
Maddy: The Sword in the Stone from 1967
MBD: Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

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Rich: Andrew Stuttaford’s post "Ukraine and Our German Allies"
Charlie: KDW’s post “Democrats against Diversity”
Alexandra: John McCormack’s piece “Why Pro-Abortion Groups Flipped on the Filibuster”
Jim: Andrew Stuttaford’s post "Ukraine, Europe, and Energy Dependence"

Light Items:

Rich: The Fall of Rome podcast
Charlie: Munich: The Edge of War
Alexandra: Food in the City by Ina Yalof
Jim: Spiderman: No Way Home

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Barry Latzer's magazine piece “Alvin Bragg, the Prosecutor Who Wouldn't Prosecute”
Charlie: Dominic Pino's work in general
Maddy: Isaac Schorr’s piece "The Media’s Muted Reaction to Biden Casting Doubt on Election Legitimacy”
MBD: Charlie’s piece “Biden’s Year of Failure”

Light Items:

Rich: Titians/Bengals game, Ian Morris's book Why the West Rules--For Now
Charlie: Around the World in 80 Days
Maddy: The Edinburgh Dungeon
MBD: The Queens of the Stone Age

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Rich: Nate Hochman’s “The Graphic, Obscene Material Sparking a Parental Revolt in the Schools”
Charlie: Kyle’s piece “Old Man Yells at Cloud”
Alexandra: Schorr and Bernstein's piece "The Press Joins Biden in Looking Away from Antisemitism"
Jim: Charlie’s piece "Did Republicans Pick the Right Time to Lose?"

Light Items:

Rich: His new bird feeder
Charlie: His recent trip to Disneyworld
Alexandra: Her new book, co-written with Ryan Anderson
Jim: New Ghostbusters

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Editors' Picks:

Rich: Jim Geraghty’s Jolt today “Joe Biden Is in over His Head”
MBD: Armond White’s review of Licorice Pizza
Maddy: Caroline Downey’s reporting
Phil: Kyle’s piece “Old Man Yells at Cloud”

Light Items:

Rich: Lineup cards
MBD: Britpop
Maddy: The boardgames Chameleon
Phil: Swimming in the cold

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Wilfred Reilly’s magazine piece "The 1619 False-History Project"
Charlie: Dan’s magazine piece "American Slavery in the Global Context"
Alexandra: Rick Brookhiser's magazine piece "What, to the Founders, Were America’s Slaves?"
Jim: KDW's "Toward a Politics of Charity"

Light Items:

Rich: Football
Charlie: Mario Party Superstars on Nintendo Switch
Alexandra: Her new extra freezer
Jim: The kids are back at school

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Editors’ Picks:

Rich: Dan’s recent pieces on the Electoral Count Act
Charlie: MBD’s piece “The Covid Truths Come Out”
MBD: Charlie’s piece “Progressives Finally Realize That Covid Is Not a ‘Moral Failing’”
Jim: Phil’s piece “The Covid Vaccine Mandates Are Unprecedented”

Light Items:

Rich: Neil Ferguson’s book Civilization
Charlie: Eddington and Einstein
MBD: Christmas with family
Jim: Rewatching Stranger Things

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Editors' Picks:

Rich: Armond’s piece slamming The Power of the Dog
Charlie: Kyle’s post on Patton Oswalt
Alexandra: MBD’s post on TLM
Jim: Daniel Tenreiro’s post on speeding tickets

Light Items:

Rich: Unreliable recipe prep times
Charlie: Going to England
Alexandra: Trip to South Bend
Jim: Snow storm in D.C.

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Rich, Charlie, and MBD discuss the mayor of Portland, the latest Coronavirus numbers, and the opening night of the MLB season.

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Luke discuss the legalities of federal law enforcement tactics in Portland, the hypocrisy of the Lincoln Project, and more.

Editors’ picks:

• Rich: NR’s obituary of John Lewis

• Charlie: Kyle Smith’s “The 29 Percenters”

• Luke: Frank Lavin “How Trump Blew His Hand in Trade-Deal Negotiations with China”

Light items:

• Rich: The sound of cicadas

• Charlie: Endeavor

• Luke: Royals inner squad games

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss Bari Weiss’s resignation letter, and Trump’s poor polling numbers.

Editors’ picks:

• Rich: Klainerman & Londregan “A Modest Proposal for a Name Change”

• Charlie: MBD’s “America, Nation of Misfits”

• MBD: Armond’s review of First Cow

Light items:

• Rich: “Free Fallin'”

• Charlie: Beach bar

• MBD: The outdoors

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Jim discuss the fight over Anthony Fauci, the ridiculous double standards when it comes to blue states versus red states, and their reactions to the Washington Redskins’s name change.

Editors’ picks:

• Rich: Andy McCarthy on Roger Stone

• Charlie: David Harsanyi on Joe Biden

• Jim: Rich’s column on NYC’s COVID response

Light items:

• Rich: one-on-one wiffle ball games

• Charlie: Southern Survival

• Jim: Socially distanced birthday celebrations

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss the outrage surrounding the Harper’s letter, and what America is doing about reopening schools this fall.

Editors’ picks:

• Rich: The latest print issue

• Charlie: NR’s coverage of recent Court rulings

• MBD: Dmitri’s piece “Don’t Forget about Religious Persecution,” and the NRO news team

Light items:

• Rich: The beauty of the American flag

• Charlie: Ron Chernow’s Washington: A Life

• MBD:

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Jim discuss Trump’s Mount Rushmore speech and the ensuing media outrage.

Editors’ picks:

• Rich: Dan McLaughlin in the upcoming print issue

• Charlie: Daniel Tenreiro “When ‘Boundary Policing’ Becomes Intimidation”

• Jim: RVB on the retracted police shootings study

Light items:

• Rich: Chocolate mousse

• Charlie: July 4th

• Jim: Fourth of July with social distancing, fireworks, and metered attendance at the pool.

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss the beauty of America, home in on the legacies of some important Americans, and Charlie compares the Founders to the Beatles.

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Jim discuss Trump’s recent polling problems and the Supreme Court decisions handed down this week.

Editors’ picks:

• Rich: David Harsanyi’s “Replace Everything Woodrow Wilson with Warren Harding”

• Charlie: Luther Abel’s “The Joy of Driving a Beater”

• Jim: Kyle Smith’s “The Year of Stupid”

Light items:

• Rich: Historian Gordon Woods

• Charlie: The weather

• Jim: Michael Connelly’s books

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Maddy discuss the Bubba Wallace non-troversy and the hypocritical difference in coverage given to Governors Cuomo and DeSantis.

Editors’ picks:

• Rich: Kyle Smith on Ricky Gervais

• Charlie: Dan McLaughlin “Yes, Lincoln and the Union Freed the Slaves”

• Maddy: Cameron Hilditch “The Far Right’s People Problem”

Light items:

• Rich: Working outdoors

• Charlie: The Floor Is Lava

• Maddy: Mr. Jones

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, and Michael discuss the current monument-defacement frenzy and the ridiculous media circus around Trump’s Tulsa rally.

Editors’ picks:

• Rich: A back and forth he had with Kyle Smith

• Charlie: Rich’s piece on the statue of Thomas Jefferson

• MBD: Daniel Tenreiro’s piece on the China–India border clash

Light items:

• Rich: Questions you don’t ask Siri.

• Charlie: Ford v Ferrari

• MBD: The original Godzilla

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