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FEATURE

No New Normal

The Editors

This presidency was supposed to be so normal. Watching Joe Biden’s inauguration, Washington Post columnist Max Boot “could not help but recall Warren G. Harding’s 1920 campaign slogan: ‘Return to normalcy.’” And of course, one year in, it’s going great. Record inflation? Normal. Medical intervention via federal bureaucracy? Extremely normal. 

SALVOS

Creating Conspiracy Theorists

Spencer Klavan

If you make a political platform out of shaming virtue and discouraging self-improvement, lots of people are going to run the other way. And if your concern is that health and fitness will then become associated with views you dislike, maybe don’t…make ugliness and obesity into objects of compulsory worship?

Why Do You Know That?

Adam Ellwanger

Earlier this year, Joe Biden asked social media companies to engage in more censorship in an effort to divert attention from the wholesale failure of his administration to “shut down the virus.” He said “I make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets: please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that’s on your shows. It has to stop.”

'THE ROUNDTABLE' EPISODE #110

You Make Me Feel Like a Natural Woman

What is a woman? Whatever Joe Biden says it is, bigot. Even Supreme Court nominees can no longer state the painfully obvious: the fog of woke religion obscures all. Meanwhile, the Hunter Biden laptop story is now officially real news. It’s a little late, but oh well–water under the bridge! The editors discuss transhumanist tecnho-fervor at home, and liberal imperialism abroad.