BOO HOO: Georgetown U. students miffed pre-orientation program no longer ‘identity-focused.

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM: Beloit College requires ‘diversity plan,’ equity advisor for faculty hiring.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Democrats are both cynical and naive.

Which leads me to the political principle a friend summed up in a pithy observation: “To be a liberal is to be unable to learn from the past.” Sometimes experience is a great teacher. Sometimes it is hardly more than a distraction. My friend’s point is that Democrats seem to derive no sustenance from their experience. The failure of their policies does not lead them to adjust their expectations or their actions. It causes them to double down on their mistakes.

The history of America’s welfare apparatus since the time of FDR and, especially, since the time of LBJ and the so-called Great Society programs, is a case in point.

Well, it depends. If the purpose of the Great Society was to make America better and happier, it was a mistake. If the purpose was to enrich a vast bureaucratic parasite class while holding the nation’s poor in government-funded serfdom, then it succeeded brilliantly. Just remember: The purpose of a system is what it does.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE:

It’s alarming that Americans with advanced degrees are twice as likely to support political violence than high school graduates. They occupy the commanding heights of the US. They staff federal agencies, universities, foundations, newsrooms, law firms, tech companies, and medical… pic.twitter.com/I2WstrA5z7

— Timur Kuran (@timurkuran) September 8, 2026

Remember when higher education was supposed to have a civilizing influence?

OF COURE HE DID: James Talarico Voted Against Bills Targeting CCP Influence in Texas, Including Popular Measure Barring Chinese Nationals From Buying Farmland.

IT WAS TOTALLY ON-POINT, WASN’T IT? Looking Back on the 2016 ‘Flight 93 Election’ Essay That Changed American History.

HMM: The Problem is Not the JAGs. Not Really. The Problem is the Commanders.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer bashed America’s juries — and battered another pillar of justice.

AN IDEA SO CRAZY IT JUST MIGHT WORK: Carmakers Have A New Idea to Boost EV Range: Add a Gas Engine.

EV sales remain depressed since the Trump administration removed a $7,500 incentive last year and rolled back regulations driving a more electric market.

Two primary concerns have kept Americans from buying EVs en masse: the higher cost of battery-powered cars, and concerns over range—specifically, the availability of charging. In theory, EREVs solve the range and charging problem, while offering other advantages for bigger vehicles like three-row SUVs. Those require large batteries that can struggle with long recharge times. The setup is popular in China’s high-tech auto market, where even Ford and General Motors offer EREV vehicles not sold in the U.S.

Most plug-in hybrids on the road today are essentially gasoline vehicles with a battery shoehorned in to provide a small amount of all-electric range. EREVs flip the concept. They are designed first as electric vehicles, and the engine solely acts as a generator for the battery, with no mechanical connection to the wheels.

The setup saves some battery costs compared with full EVs and eliminates the need for gas-car parts like a transmission. EREVs also drive like EVs, including instant acceleration even when the battery is drawing from the generator.

EVs need to offer the range independence of gas cars.

OPEN THREAD: Monday, Monday.

CHANGE: SpaceX is back in the $2 trillion club after nearly two months.

IT’S THE TOXOPLASMOSIS: “Cats seem to be associated with worse mental health measures for children, while other pets, including rabbits, reptiles, or amphibians, seem to have the opposite effect.”

WELL, FIX IT: A Hidden Hormone Disorder May Be Driving Millions of High Blood Pressure Cases.

MY NEW YORK POST COLUMN: Lindsay Clancy’s lawyer bashed America’s juries — and battered another pillar of justice.

MAGNESIUM IS GOOD: Taking Magnesium? This Is the Most Important Thing to Remember.

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Audi Offers EV Lessees Up to $10,000 to Keep Their Cars.

MAKE THEM PAY: NRA Launches Suit Aimed at Denver’s Non-Resident Carry Ban.

ADVENTURES IN DUMB:

Ask communists to explicitly describe what communism would be like. The answers are hilarious.

> Everyone gets a modern urban apartment in a city, no cars
> You don't have to work
> Things are just produced so everyone has stuff somehow
> People work because of a 'sense of… pic.twitter.com/KzG2nT0c8k

— Reddit Lies (@reddit_lies) September 6, 2026

SCIENCE: Prescribe exercise for prostate cancer patients, study says.

STRENGTH AND POWER: Weight loss is no longer the top gym goal — why strength training is taking over.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Do you need electrolytes for summer workouts? Experts explain how to exercise safely in the heat.

SEXISM ON PARADE: North Carolina universities have preferred female applicants for over two decades: report.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Saint Augustine’s cancels fall classes as crisis deepens, judge ‘surprised’ by lack of professionalism.

OUT: BAGHDAD BOB. In: Baghdad NYT. “A More Confident Iran Emerges After Six Months of War With the U.S.” “The Persian Army has more power and it disappeared in a sandstorm west of Thebes 2,551 years ago.”

Plus: “Why would NYT run something awful like that? Because the NYT strives to be awful. Robert Stacy McCain wrote about the New York Times Journalism Institute, Class of 2018, that NYT travel writer Victoria Leandra called the future of journalism.”

ROB HENDERSON ON LINDSAY CLANCY: O.J. Simpson for middle-class white women. “What I’m about to explain is why some verdicts are more about settling emotional debts than attaining a fair outcome. Once you understand this, the support for Lindsay Clancy begins to look much less mysterious.”

Related:

Fascinating how all of the people who have responded negatively to my Clancy essay have been, without exception, college-educated middle class white women, lending support to my hypothesis about what the support for Clancy is really about: https://t.co/asa1Mda1Kg https://t.co/4bbWwpLwyC

— Rob Henderson (@robkhenderson) September 6, 2026