It's on: On Thursday, Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts joined Kellyanne Conway in Toronto to debate New York Times columnist Ezra Klein and “Obama bro” Ben Rhodes in a Munk Debate to argue that America stands at the beginning of our Golden Age.

• “[T]his Golden Age is not just an American revival — it is a rebuke to the failed technocracy of the Western world,” wrote Roberts in a recent op-ed for the Toronto Sun.
• During the event, Roberts noted that, “Over half of Americans say that the country is on the right track.”

Watch this clip from the debate on X, and read The Daily Signal’s coverage here.  

Creative promotion: EJ Antoni, widely known for his ability to break down complex economic topics with clarity and precision, will now serve as Heritage’s chief economist.

• "EJ Antoni is one of the sharpest economic minds in the country—a fearless truth-teller who understands that sound economics serves the interests of the American people, not the globalist elites,” said Heritage President Dr. Kevin Roberts.

Read the press release here. 

Tucked away: Schools like Harvard are acting like sanctuary cities for radical foreign students and likely refusing to report incidents of antisemitism to the Trump administration.

• “The more the public learns about Harvard’s rampant antisemitism, how it prioritizes the interests of foreign students over those of Americans, and how it ... enables student misconduct, the worse Harvard looks,” writes Senior Research Fellow Jay Greene.

Read more here at The Daily Signal.

Agenda 47: Will you take a few minutes to complete our survey and let us know where you stand on President Trump’s agenda?

• Your answers will help Heritage as we work with President Trump’s team to secure our borders, defend our freedoms, and restore America’s prosperity.

Complete the National Survey on President Trump’s Agenda to make your voice heard: 

https://secured.heritage.org/the-trump-agenda-survey/

The hate pipeline: Elias Rodriguez shot and killed two Israeli embassy employees in cold blood after years of indoctrination by far-left organizations supported by Chinese Communist Party affiliates.

• “Monsters like Elias Rodriguez don’t suddenly emerge from under a rock,” writes Senior Fellow Mike Gonzalez.
• “Their anti-American and anti-Israel hatreds are honed over time by a revolutionary ecosystem composed of different organisms.”
• Gonzalez refers to a research report that shows how operatives in China may be fueling anti-Americanism through these radical antisemitic groups.

Read the exposé here.

Revamp: Fixing the embarrassing decline of America’s defense industrial base doesn’t need to cost an arm and a leg.

• “These five changes," write Miles Pollard, policy analyst in the Center for Data Analysis, and Jim Fein, research assistant for National Security and European Affairs, would put us on the road to restoring our defense industrial base and "would be net cost-neutral or cost-saving.” 

Read their op-ed in The Hill.

Not fair: Senior Research Fellow Simon Hankinson recently testified on how the State Department’s commitment to DEI came at the expense of its mission.

• “There are two ways to get diversity in selective professions: you can educate everyone to a high standard and let them compete, or you can discriminate to get the sex and race percentages you want,” said Hankinson. The State Dept. chose the latter.

Watch the clip from his testimony on X.

Walls work: Historian, columnist, and Daily Signal contributor Victor Davis Hanson gave this year’s Russell Kirk Lecture.

• Hanson draws on his vast knowledge of history to explain why national borders have always mattered, that walls do work, and that unfettered immigration can doom a society.
• He also offers an explanation for why the Biden administration let 10 million illegal immigrants into the country.

Watch the illuminating talk on X.

This compendium of essential research takes a critical look at climate science and policy through the lenses of economic analysis and reasoning, statistical analysis, and historical and empirical scrutiny. 

• Experts challenge mainstream views on human-induced climate change and advocate for a balanced, evidence-based approach to climate policy that considers both costs and benefits.

Buy the book here.

The Real West Wing: High Noon at the White House

On this week’s “Case and Point” podcast, May Mailman, deputy assistant to the president and senior policy strategist at the White House, joins Hans von Spakovsky, senior legal fellow, to talk about the formulation of policy at the White House and the lawfare being waged against the president being by outlaw judges.

 

Listen on Apple Podcasts.

• A Test Fit for America’s Finest Schools—Jonathan Butcher and Lindsey Burke, Ph.D.
• Biden Administration Hid Millions of Defaulted Student Loans—E.J. Antoni, Ph.D.
• Here’s Why Young Americans Don’t Appreciate the Meaning of Memorial Day—Mary Mobley
• Democrats Are Scheming to Spread the Tax Misery of Blue States Nationwide—Mario Loyola
• Trump’s Tariff Strategy Can Work, but America Still Needs Deeper Economic Reform—EJ Antoni, Ph.D.
• Justice Department Urged to Seek Death Penalty in Capital Jewish Museum Murders—Cully Stimson
• Pakistan’s Terror Challenge Isn’t Just India’s Problem—Kriti Upadhyaya
• The New Cold War with China—Dan Green

Jay Greene, senior research fellow in the Center for Education Policy, appeared on LiveNow Fox to discuss President Trump’s battle with Harvard University over student enrollment. Watch the clip on LiveNow Fox here.