July 30, 2025

TRUE:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

WELL, GOOD: Huckabee says there’s ‘no break’ between US and Israel following Trump Gaza comments.

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee pushed back on the idea that President Donald Trump has broken with Israel’s government in calling out the humanitarian crisis in Gaza on Tuesday, adding that he remains close to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

“Let me assure you that there is no break between the prime minister of Israel and the president,” Huckabee said in a Tuesday interview with Fox News. “Their relationship, I think, [is] stronger than it’s ever been, and I think the relationship between the U.S. and Israel is as strong as it’s ever been.”

The comments come after Trump said Monday that there is “real starvation” in Gaza, contradicting Netanyahu’s denial of a hunger crisis in the war-torn region. A United Nations-backed report warned this week that a “worst-case scenario of famine” is playing out in Gaza.

Earlier this month, Netanyahu said there was “no daylight” between his government and the Trump administration, praising Trump for the recent U.S. military’s bombing of Iran’s nuclear sites.

Trump and Netanyahu are doing what must be done to restore some semblance of peace to the Middle East, while politically correct fools in London and Paris work to undo to it by recognizing Palestine.

Posted at 7:34 am by Stephen Green

OVERPRODUCTION OF ELITES: The Most Dangerous Class in America? High Education/Low Income Voters. “The Lumpencommentariate is a larger and growing class of political actors who provide the ground troops and the numbers for the woke mob. . . . AWFLs are an easy target for critics of woke because they are highly performative and have the resources to showcase their supposed virtue in ways that break through culturally. They have The View, Race2Dinner, and move in social circles that amplify and influence culturally elite institutions. They are also similar enough in class to be recognizable to most people as overlapping with their own bourgeois aspirations, while at the same time loudly rejecting the comforts of bourgeois life, while enjoying them. In other words, they are grossly hypocritical and easy to mock. The Lumpencommentariate is a distinct breed, typically younger. They share the same education and, if anything, even more radical politics born of resentment rather than vague guilt born out of unearned wealth. This is the base of support for truly radical politics. Highly-educated but low-income voters who feel betrayed by society.”

Kenneth Anderson had some thoughts on this quite a while ago:

In social theory, OWS is best understood not as a populist movement against the bankers, but instead as the breakdown of the New Class into its two increasingly disconnected parts. The upper tier, the bankers-government bankers-super credentialed elites. But also the lower tier, those who saw themselves entitled to a white collar job in the Virtue Industries of government and non-profits — the helping professions, the culture industry, the virtueocracies, the industries of therapeutic social control, as Christopher Lasch pointed out in his final book, The Revolt of the Elites. The two tiers of the New Class have always had different sources of rents, however. . . . The OWS protestors are a revolt — a shrill, cri-de-coeur wail at the betrayal of class solidarity — of the lower tier New Class against the upper tier New Class. It was, after all, the upper tier New Class, the private-public finance consortium, that created the student loan business and inflated the bubble in which these lower tier would-be professionals borrowed the money. It’s a securitization machine, not so very different from the subprime mortgage machine. The asset bubble pops, but the upper tier New Class, having insulated itself and, as with subprime, having taken its cut upfront and passed the risk along, is still doing pretty well. It’s not populism versus the bankers so much as internecine warfare between two tiers of elites. The downward mobility is real, however, in both income and status. The Cal graduate started out wanting to do ‘sustainable conservation.’ She is now engaged in something closer to subsistence farming.

It’s easy to have a comfortable life now, but people have been raised to crave distinction.

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

THIS EXPLAINS A LOT OF WHAT’S WRONG IN AMERICAN SOCIETY, EVEN DOWN TO DATING PROBLEMS.

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

PEOPLE KEEP ASKING IF THE UPCOMING BOOK IS “PROMETHEUS MATERIAL”:  In The Name Of Freedom.

So I wrote that. Because heck if I know. Look, if I had to pick one of mine as Prometheus bait? Not Darkship Thieves. A Few Good Men. Guess which one won the Prometheus. G’on, guess.

Posted at 1:29 am by Sarah Hoyt

July 29, 2025

FIRST THE COLOSSUS AI FACILITY IN MEMPHIS, NOW THIS IN NASHVILLE:

Elon’s marching in my direction! Come on over to Knoxville, Elon, we’ll do lunch. We can talk about my next book, on “seductive AI.”

Posted at 10:24 pm by Glenn Reynolds