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Get Ready for ‘Climate Change Death’ Tracking

Tim O'Brien

With Covid more or less spent as a coercive lever, the regime needs a new body count to justify continued undemocratic policymaking and execution. Climate change stands at the ready. So be prepared to start hearing about “climate change death” numbers.

What Elections Won’t Fix

Kevin Portteus

The questions and problems of our time go far beyond ordinary electoral politics, and yet they take place within the context of those politics. Through all the turmoil of his two years out of office, Donald Trump remains an emblem of all those deeper questions we hope to resolve in and through politics.

'THE ROUNDTABLE' EPISODE #153

Breakdowns and Builders

The Editors

As flights are grounded across America and federal officials float—then retract—a ban on gas stoves, the editors gather to discuss the gradual dissolution of American competence, and what if anything can be done about it. Plus: Ron DeSantis has made a bold series of appointments to the New College of Florida’s Board of Trustees. Is this a hopeful first step, or a meaningless drop in the ocean? The editors chose between white, black, and quantum pills on the state of education.