DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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One of the co-authors of California’s controversial ‘one-time’ tax on billionaires appeared to suggest that the levy could extend beyond a single imposition.

Marxist economics professor Emmanuel Saez, who hails from France, made the comment during a Tuesday debate against economist Arthur Laffer at the University of California, Berkeley.

“I don’t think it’s going to be a one-time tax. Because you can’t surprise billionaires more than once,” Saez said. “Even then, maybe some of them were expecting something like this. So, it’s going to be a debate about this time, you know, a permanent wealth tax at a low rate that’s going to last for a number of years.”

Time to leave.

The Foundry.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is already having success in redistributing wealth, right out of his city.

It seems the socialist mayor’s creepy video celebrating Tax Day and directly calling out billionaire CEO Ken Griffin as a target for a new pied-à-terre tax may have backfired.

While the slickly produced video—where he gleefully spoke about taxing the “rich”—may have been good short-term politics, it could ultimately create a financial doom cascade for a New York City already facing a “historic” budget crisis.

According to a report in the New York Post, Griffin and other “billionaire bigwigs” are earnestly considering leaving the city, or at the very least looking to make future investments elsewhere.

“The splashy one-two punch of Citadel CEO Ken Griffin and Apollo Global Management honcho Marc Rowan pledging to expand outside New York City has been coupled with a silent wave of businesses ‘quiet quitting’ the city over its hostile environment,” according to the Post.

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A prominent X account recently posted her insane $9,000 bill for a hospitalization from a year prior. Then, as always happens, someone on the internet announced with great confidence that this is what happens when healthcare is left to the free market. As if the most regulated industry in America actually functions in a free market.

Nowhere in America is a free market, except maybe schoolkids trading baseball cards.

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A curriculum audit for an Arizona school district last year identified a resource that urged teachers to direct students to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s “hate map” and avoid the websites of “hate groups” or their sympathizers.

Critics have faulted the SPLC for putting mainstream conservative and Christian groups, such as Moms for Liberty, Turning Point USA, PragerU, Focus on the Family, Alliance Defending Freedom, the Family Research Council, and others, on a “hate map” with chapters of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Lake Havasu Unified School District told The Daily Signal that no teacher ever used the resource, which the district said had been created by Savvas Learning Company.

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Fraud in government programs is often treated like an urban legend—something that happens in faraway blue cities run by corrupt political machines. But the truth is more unsettling: Some of the most brazen theft of taxpayer money is happening in places governed by Republicans, right under their noses.

Consider Ohio.

At one address in Columbus, investigators found 94 different companies registered in the same building. The windows were covered. The offices appeared empty. Yet, according to The Daily Wire investigative team led by Luke Rosiak, that single address has billed taxpayers more than $66 million.

This is not a minor accounting error. It is not mere “waste.” It is a system being exploited.

The War Zone.

The U.S. carried out new attacks on Iranian targets today, striking several empty oil tankers trying to break the blockade, according to a post on X by U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). This latest incident comes as the UAE says it was attacked again by Iran today and hours after the U.S. and Iran exchanged blows in and around the Strait of Hormuz.

U.S. forces “disabled M/T Sea Star III and M/T Sevda, May 8, prior to both vessels entering an Iranian port on the Gulf of Oman in violation of the ongoing U.S. blockade, CENTCOM stated. “A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet from USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) disabled both tankers after firing precision munitions into their smokestacks, preventing the non-compliant ships from entering Iran.”

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Celebrity land thief Billie Eilish flaunted her hypocrisy again, this week, when she scolded Americans that we are all morally repugnant for eating meat.

“Eating meat is inherently wrong,” she proclaimed in an interview with Elle Magazine.

“Two things cannot coincide,” she continued, lecturing viewers that loving animals and enjoying a good ribeye are mutually exclusive.

Apparently that makes all of us carnivore dog owners Cruella de Vil!

The self-righteous pop star expectedly alienated many with her take, to which she doubled down with an even more tone deaf and grammar-blind response.

“Go watch some footage of what is done to the animals! if that footage was hard for u to watch i encourage u to pls take a look at urself,” she wrote on Instagram.

That’s rich, coming from a militant abortion cheerleader who has previously stated banning the dismemberment of pre-born babies makes her “so mad.” Maybe she should go watch some footage of what is done to HUMAN BEINGS in the womb and take a look at herself, if it’s also hard to watch.”

If “standing up” and “having empathy for living beings” is so “controversial,” like Billie claims, leftists like her are the reason why.

The Foundry.

Not only was the SPLC allegedly boosting members of the hate groups it says it exists to oppose while demonizing mainstream conservatives, but it also reportedly settled a racial discrimination lawsuit as recently as 2024.

Michael Edison Hayden, who worked as a senior investigative reporter at the SPLC’s Intelligence Project, wrote a tell-all article on Substack last month.

Hayden faulted the SPLC for not attacking conservatives enough; for harassing members of the SPLC’s union; for responding poorly to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel and its aftermath; and for engaging in racial discrimination against him.

Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

As anti-LGBTQ legislation proliferated across the United States in late 2024, leaders at two Jewish nonprofits began discussing the mounting crisis for LGBTQ Americans who no longer felt safe in their home states but lacked the financial means to leave.

Having more queer people around = ‘safe’? News to me.

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Minnesota Senate Democrats recently voted – unaminously – against removing deceased persons from the state’s voter rolls.

This tracks with the fact that almost 100% of dead people vote for Democrats, making them Democrats’ most loyal voting bloc, even surpassing that of serial killers.

(This may explain why, historically, Democrat gerrymandering seems designed to encompass as many cemeteries as possible. O.K., that is just an unfounded assertion, but it seems likely, does it not?)

The dead — and serial killers — are groups that vote heavily for Democrats? Talk about a symbiotic relationship! The latter provide the former! Genius! Kismet!

This after they also voted — unanimously — against an oversight committee effort to compel Rep. Ilhan Omar to testify after she missed a deadline to provide documents to the committee investigating the Somali fraud rampant in the North Star State.

So the multi-millionaire or poverty-stricken representative (take your pick) from Somalia escapes a subpoena, at least for now.

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A longtime donor to Michigan Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has been charged with 16 felonies for allegedly misusing $20 million of state funds.

New York Post.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has been roundly scorned after she claimed on a podcast this week that the idea anyone can earn their way to billionaire status is a “myth.”

“You can’t earn a billion dollars. You just can’t earn that,” the Bronx and Queens rep told comedian Ilana Glazer on Thursday on the latter’s podcast, “It’s Open.” “You can get market power, you can break rules, you can do all sorts of things.

“You can abuse labor laws, you can pay people less than what they’re worth. But you can’t earn that, right? And so you have to create a myth that — since you didn’t earn that, you have to create a myth of earning it.”

AOC doubled down in a post on X Thursday evening, writing: “The single largest form of theft in America is wage theft. $50 billion a year are stolen from American workers … Some people get enraged that I draw attention to this. That’s on them. Let them call me shrill, dumb, inexperienced, girly, uneducated – these folks will say anything to distract from or undercut the truth that working people are getting screwed, and giving people a fair shake means we must have a grown conversation about reigning [sic] in abuse of power.”

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It was supposed to cost $33 billion when voters approved the train in 2008. It will now cost at least $126 billion.

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An Islamic State-affiliated group attacked villages in Congo near the border with Uganda, killing at least 40 people and burning and looting homes, a local civil society group said on Friday.

The Foundry.

A dozen Democrat-led states declared victory Thursday in a legal battle that effectively checked off two priorities from a liberal coalition’s 2024 template for blue states to thwart President Donald Trump’s agenda.

An attachment to a Dec. 13, 2024, email to the coalition Governors Safeguarding Democracy outlined the organization’s priorities to oppose then-President-elect Trump through litigation and policy battles, including opposition to deporting illegal aliens and efforts to prevent the loss of federal funding.

In the Thursday action, the Department of Homeland Security dropped an appeal to withhold Federal Emergency Management Agency funding from sanctuary jurisdictions, which had originally prompted the 12-state lawsuit against the administration.

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Germany’s labour minister has been accused of denying reality after insisting “nobody immigrates into our social welfare system” despite government data showing foreigners are heavily overrepresented among welfare claimants.

The controversy erupted during a government question session on Wednesday, May 6th, when right-wing AfD MP René Springer asked why the government was not cutting spending “where it is obvious: immigration into our social systems” as Germany struggles with rising welfare costs and mounting budget pressure.

Labour Minister Bärbel Bas dismissed the claim outright, arguing instead that immigration was helping to address labour shortages.

Invasion and replacement proceeds apace.

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The UK government’s efforts to stop the boats met with reality on May 8th, as the total number of small-boat arrivals since 2018 officially surpassed the 200,000 mark.

A group of 70 migrants, intercepted by the Border Force vessel Ranger after launching from Dunkirk at dawn, brought the cumulative total to 200,013.

The news serves as a secondary blow to the prime minister, who is already reeling from a disastrous set of local election results overnight.

While the Home Office points to a 35% drop in year-to-date crossings compared to 2025, maritime experts warn that the reprieve is largely due to unseasonably poor weather rather than policy success.

Invasion and replacement is on course.

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The Virginia Supreme Court just struck down the new congressional map steamrolled through by Spanberger. The old map with Republican seats remains intact.

UPDATE: Virginia Considering New Measure That Just Makes It Illegal For Republicans To Vote (Babylon Bee)

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Color me surprised.

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The “reasonable” party, the party of empathy, has struck again.

Even their most reasonable politicians, like former Army Vet Wes Moore, who is now the governor of Maryland and seen as a rising star among Dems, are totally captured by the most insane ideas of the party.

I would let his 12-year-old son ‘change gender’ too. He deserves to have his genes subtracted from the gene pool.

Natural Selection works every time.

Tim Graham.

Leftists in the media cannot stand the idea that Team Trump is coming to the defense of white males at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). They believe white males should never file a complaint, given their centuries of massive white male privilege.

Last week, The New York Times reported scornfully on how discrimination claims by white men and Jews are “Discrimination Cases That Match Trump’s Agenda,” according to their headline. In their view, the EEOC should always match the leftist agenda. It’s supposed to be a captive agency of the Left under every administration.

This week, the EEOC sued The Times for discrimination against a white male employee who applied for a deputy real estate editor position. Despite experience in real-estate journalism, he was excluded from the final pool of candidates, which was composed of a white female, a black male, an Asian female, and a multiracial female. The multiracial female won the job, despite a lack of experience in real-estate journalism.

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Childcare workers across Wales are being trained to spot and report “racist incidents” by toddlers under fresh guidance endorsed by government ministers and bankrolled with taxpayer cash.

The push, which includes lessons on “white privilege,” turns playgroups and nurseries into surveillance hubs for the state’s ‘anti-racism’ agenda — even when the alleged offenders are barely out of nappies.

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States won by President Donald Trump in the 2024 election collectively gained more than $2.2 trillion in adjusted gross income from interstate migration between 2012 and 2023, while states won by Vice President Kamala Harris lost nearly $2 trillion during the same period.

Steve Graham.

Welcome to Dr. Fantasmo’s Dental Fun House

My wife and I went in for dental cleanings, and we learned something that might be very helpful to you. And it’s time-sensitive.

The hippies and trannies have ruined dental floss.

Many people have huge gaps between their teeth, so they can use any kind of floss they want. My teeth are close together, so if I use the wrong floss, it snaps. This is not a rare condition.

In order to fix the problem, our wonderful dental establishment came up with floss made from Teflon. The best-known brand is Glide. It moves in and out of dental gaps much more easily than the old string-and-wax stuff.

I have been buying the Walmart version of this stuff for a long time. I buy it in large quantities so I get the best prices and so I don’t run out fast. I am still working on my last container.

At my cleaning, my hygienist got very angry. She was using some kind of horrible floss that kept snapping, and it felt like she was dragging butcher’s twine between my teeth. She got fed up and started using some kind of little pointy things to get the polishing paste out. I wondered why she was using floss she clearly hated.

I told her I used Teflon floss, and she said it was no longer available.

I was horrified, and when I got home, I did some research. She was right. Since I bought my last shipment of floss, the hippies in a couple of degenerate hippie states banned Teflon floss. Of course, this means it’s banned for everyone else, because companies don’t want to make different floss for different states, and because they don’t want hysterical, hormonal women crying that Oral-B is trying to kill their children.

There are chemicals called PFAS (or something like that) and they are used in the manufacture of Teflon floss. By the time the floss is made, there are only tiny traces of these chemicals in it, and you can probably imagine how much of that will get into your body in a lifetime of flossing. Doesn’t matter. Estrogen is the mind-killer, and you can’t reason with a nose-ringed woman full of SSRI’s.

Incidentally, one of the outfits that got rid of good floss is called Silent Spring, which is named for the 1961 Rachel Carson book that killed millions of little brown people by getting DDT banned because of a greatly exaggerated fear that it might thin bird eggshells. With the use of DDT, the incidence of malaria in Ceylon went from millions per year to 17, and when DDT was withdrawn, numbers shot back up, and there was a tsunami of fatalities as needless deaths resumed.

Malaria is not a joke. You can’t just take a spoonful of quinine and get out of bed, instantly healed, and do jumping jacks. It causes excruciating pain and kills people.

Mosquitoes spread other diseases such as zika and yellow fever. But never mind. Rachel Carson got her chance to virtue-signal.

So what do you do if you want to floss your teeth?

I use a tool called GUM Soft Picks. Using actual dental floss is Too Much Like Work.

The Telegraph (UK).

The Press watchdog has ruled that publications are entitled to describe Israel’s actions in Gaza as genocide.

The First Amendment saves Americans from being subject to a ‘press watchdog’.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation (Ipso) rejected a complaint from a member of the public about the term being used as a statement of fact in a newspaper article.

Ipso said it was “not in a position to adjudicate on the actions of Israel”, even though the UK Government had been clear that genocide was not being committed.

I wonder how they classify Muslim attempts to exterminate the Jews?

The Telegraph (UK).

A group of suspected Islamic State (IS) brides have been arrested in Australia after arriving with their children on flights from Syria.

Three women were immediately taken into custody after two flights with women and children linked to IS landed in Sydney and Melbourne on Thursday.

Kawsar Abbas, 53, who arrived in Melbourne, was expected to be charged with four counts of crimes against humanity relating to slavery, the Australian Federal Police said. Each charge would carry a maximum of 25 ?years in prison.

The Telegraph (UK).

My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

The Telegraph (UK).

Children’s clothes of all shapes, sizes and colours hang on rails along the walls of the second-hand clothes shop in Al-Khiyam. Parents who live in what remains of this part of southern Lebanon are grateful for the hand-me-downs.

A small square hole in the floor, however, betrays a more sinister purpose.

It’s a squeeze, but once you are through it, a tight spiral staircase descends a metal-lined shaft. It opens up at a depth of perhaps 10 to 15 metres into a formidably well-organised Hezbollah tunnel complex, connecting multiple buildings in the village.

Of course they don’t. Who would be such a fool as to think they might?

There are no ‘innocent civilians’ in Gaza.

The Times (UK).

A magistrate has told a teenage shoplifter that she has never seen offending on such a scale after he avoided a custodial sentence for thefts that totalled £116,000

In other words, no prison time.

The 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, participated in dozens of raids in London shops over the past two years, Highbury Corner youth court was told.

He was captured on CCTV either “directly participating” in taking cosmetic products off the shelves or acting as a lookout. The court was told the boy acted alone and as part of a group on a number of occasions and there was an investigation into other perpetrators.

And still, no prison time.

The Times (UK).

Candidates in the Birmingham city council election posted a “celebration” video praising Iran’s success in the war with Israel and America.

Wajad Burkey and Sardar Khan, candidates for the Workers Party, posed with a box of sweets and a superimposed Iranian flag in the video shared on TikTok.

Burkey, a candidate for Bordesley Green, an inner-city ward, spoke in favour of the Iranian government in the footage, believed to have been posted after Tehran closed the Strait of Hormuz.

ScienceDaily.

A test designed to push the limits of single cell DNA sequencing ended up revealing something far more surprising: a microscopic organism from a pond at Oxford University Parks appears to use the genetic code in a way scientists had not seen before.

Naval News.

Russia is investing heavily in a new generation of “super weapons” designed to bypass and potentially nullify conventional defenses. Foremost among them is Poseidon, an autonomous, nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed underwater weapon with effectively intercontinental range. Details about its newest dedicated carrier submarine, Khabarovsk, are only gradually coming into focus.

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President Donald Trump took decisive action last year to halt crime in Washington, and the results have been spectacular.

But that success now looks even more impressive considering recent reports that high-ranking members of the Metropolitan Police Department had been previously cooking the books to create the mirage that crime was lower than it was.

The House Oversight Committee released a report in December uncovering that during their investigation of crime in the capital, they heard “testimonies from commanders that there are clear pressures placed on MPD personnel to lower the classifications of crime to present to the public the perception of low crime in the District.”

The police commanders said, according to the committee, that “on numerous occasions, they were not only pressured, but also instructed, to lower crime classifications to lesser intermediate offenses in such a way that those offenses would not be included in the DCR reported to the public.”

U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said Friday in an interview with Fox News that her office conducted a review as well and found that 50 witnesses and more than 6,000 police reports backed up the claim that there was tampering with the crime stats.

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And apparently is a Woman of Color. (Considering the major part that Arabs and other Muslims played in the slave trade, it constantly astonishes me how American Africans cozy up to Islam and it’s ephemera, e.g. “Hakim” Jeffries.)

On another page of her website for this educational center in Hurst, Texas, DOCTOR Aminah Knight spells it “Leaning.”

Perhaps a Freudian Slip?

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A top House Democrat is being accused of breaking federal law after she admitted to meeting with foreign ambassadors about getting oil to Cuba’s communist regime despite U.S. sanctions, defending the outreach as “literally our right and responsibility.”

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D?Wash., made the remarks during a recent briefing in Seattle following a congressional delegation trip to Cuba, where she discussed the island’s worsening fuel shortages and U.S. policy toward the communist regime.

“I was in conversations with ambassadors from Mexico and some other places … trying to figure out how to get oil there,” Jayapal said during the briefing, describing conditions on the island as “a crisis beyond imagination.”

A ‘crisis’ of their own making.

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The controversy surrounding the banquets organised by Le Canon français shows no sign of abating. The initiative, launched by two young entrepreneurs to revive traditional banquets centred on culinary specialities from across France, has come under fire from the press and the Left on the grounds that it perpetuates an ideology of exclusion and promotes far-right ideas. The rector of the Paris Mosque has spoken out publicly to, in turn, attack these festive gatherings which bring together several thousand enthusiastic guests in towns and cities across France.

In a video dated April 29th, Chems-Eddine Haffiz, rector of the Paris Mosque—who, given his official position, is regarded as a kind of spokesman for Islam in France—lashed out at the Canon français and its banquets: the fact that it celebrates a cuisine featuring pork, he claimed, is proof of a logic of exclusion. He condemns the “4,000 guests gathered around a spit-roasted pig” and accuses them of “symbolically” excluding those who do not share this cuisine—that is to say, Muslims.

His statement was met with outraged reactions from right-wing politicians, as well as from ordinary “canonniers”, as the participants in these popular feasts are known.

Taste, a Voice of the Crust.

Come along with a scion of the Left Coast slumming among the proles.

Babylon Bee.

You think the illegal immigrants were bad? You ain’t seen nothin’ yet! Wait ’til we send in the clowns socialists!

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Editors across Wikipedia are going all out to salvage the Southern Poverty Law Center’s (SPLC) reputation.

The biased, so-called online encyclopedia’s editors downplayed, hid and even deleted content about the recent grand jury indictment of the SPLC across Wikipedia. The SPLC – accused of “manufacturing racism to justify its existence” – was indicted on “11 counts of wire fraud, false statements to a federally insured bank, and conspiracy to commit money laundering.”

While Wikipedia routinely elevates indictments against Republicans and right-of-center organizations, the website’s editors pushed news of the indictment further and further down the SPLC’s own Wikipedia page. Wikipedia editors ultimately buried the news in the 65th paragraph of the entry, making “Federal indictment” a small subheading of “Lawsuits against and criticism of the SPLC.”

By contrast, Wikipedia consistently includes indictments, charges or investigations against Republicans and organizations on the right in the introductory section of their Wikipedia articles, many times as high as the third paragraph. Wikipedia boosted legal attacks on the pages of The Trump Organization, Fox News, former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, White House trade advisor Peter Navarro, former Trump advisor Roger Stone and former White House National Security Advisor Michael Flynn.

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Of course it is.

The scrapping of the term ‘Islamophobia’ is one thing. But a lecture recently delivered to Swedish students suggests that the country’s political class has a lot more to do in what it describes as its fight against Islamist infiltration.

A man who calls himself Yosef Ahmad on social media has recently shared footage of himself telling young Muslims in Sweden that democracy is incompatible with their religion, because it gives politicians the mandate to decide what is ‘halal’ (allowed) and ‘haram’ (forbidden) instead of Allah.

Reports say Ahmad is connected to Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist organisation banned in multiple countries, including in the UK and Germany. It has even been banned in several Muslim countries.

According to the Doku Foundation, which examines the Islamist environment in Sweden, Hizb ut-Tahrir “advocates that Muslims best protect themselves and their children by studying Islam, as an ideology in stark contrast to secular democracy, in order to avoid becoming receptive to other ideas and thereby counteract assimilation.”

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Man, I would’ve never guessed that a guy who crashed a car, tried to steal a bunch of cars, and then was shot dead after trying to steal another car was an illegal alien from Mexico.

Yeah, that would have totally escaped me….

Babylon Bee.

A federal judge ordered the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s purported suicide note, which oddly appears to have been written on Hillary Clinton’s personal stationery.

Nothin’ to see here—move along, move along….

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Over the last year, I’ve come to an unsettling realization—the upper middle class is caught in a trap, and many of them don’t realize it.

A few weeks ago I wrote about why private school isn’t worth the cost. My argument hinged on the fact that the upper middle class pays a lot for private education despite there being no significant impact on lifetime outcomes. In The Death of the Amex Lounge, I found the same thing—premium travel experiences had become crowded while remaining expensive.

And, after recently digging into the data on housing, I’m having déjà vu. Homes are getting smaller even as prices rise. LendingTree reported that, from 2014 to 2024, the average size of new single-family homes shrunk by 11% even as the price per square foot surged by 74%! This is just the average too. A home near a public elementary school with a GreatSchools rating of 9 or 10 costs 78.6% more than a home in the surrounding county.

All of these trends point toward the same thing—people are paying more and getting less. This is what I call the upper middle class trap.

Not that there’s anything wrong with that….

Quillette.

The claim that Jews are imperialist “colonisers” isn’t new. It emerged from the Victorian-era antisemitism of an influential English journalist and matured in the early Soviet Union, long before the modern state of Israel was founded. As Paul Johnson (1928–2023), the great historian, observed:

The Soviet campaign against the Jews, after 1967 a permanent feature of the system, was itself conducted under the code-name of anti-Zionism, which became a cover for every variety of anti-Semitism. [The] Leninist theory of imperialism, like Marx’s theory of capitalism, had its roots in anti-Semitic conspiracy theory.

As Johnson showed, the claim that Jews are “imperialists” predated Vladimir Lenin, leader of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924. Johnson traces the source of this claim to the English writer and journalist J.A. Hobson, who travelled to South Africa to cover the Boer War in 1899. Hobson, as Johnson relates, regarded Jews as “almost devoid of social morality,” and possessing “a superior calculating intellect” that allows them “to take advantage of every weakness, folly and vice of the society in which he lives.”

Quillette.

Homeowner Jane invites the homeless James to live with her. “I’d hate to be homeless,” she tells herself. James starts to exploit and abuse her. She accepts it. “I would not exploit and abuse someone unless something truly terrible had happened to me,” she thinks. This is what Gad Saad would call “suicidal empathy.” In his book of the same name, the Canadian commentator rails against “the orgiastic misfiring of one of our most noble virtues, empathy.”

There is merit to Saad’s critique. He is correct that empathy is problematic when people exaggerate the similarities between individuals. In all likelihood, James is not exploiting and abusing Jane because he has been maddened by trauma. He is, fundamentally, a less conscientious person.

Saad is clear—and rightly so—that he has no inherent objection to empathy. He objects to empathy, and all other emotions, when they are not regulated by rationality. The extent to which we empathise with other people must be framed by a rational understanding of those people and their circumstances.

Associated Press, a Voice of the Crust.

Sometimes the old ways are best.