LIFE IN THE 21ST CENTURY: Losing a tooth? Periodontists are using your own blood to rebuild the bone around it.

THE EV BUBBLE CONTINUES TO DEFLATE: Inside Porsche’s Taycan Factory as Questions Grow Over Its Future.

SHOOT THEM: Home Invader’ Is the One Species Most States Still Don’t Protect.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: How gross is biting your fingernails?

SCIENCE, UNSETTLED: Bombshell Great Pyramid of Giza Study Retracted. “A scientific journal has retracted a study that claimed satellite radar could reveal hidden structures inside the Great Pyramid of Giza, finding “serious methodological flaws and statistical errors” that undermined its conclusions. The retraction matters because the paper provided a scientific foundation for increasingly extraordinary claims about what may lie beneath one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites.”

HMM: Psychology says people who sleep better with their dog in the bed aren’t imagining it — the evidence on sleep quality is mixed, but the evidence on felt security is consistent, and for most people the second one decides how the night goes.

ANSWERING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: When it comes to strength training, how much is enough?

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