The American Mind's Weekly Digest

SALVOS

No Borders, No Taxes

Seth Barron

Uncontrolled borders are characteristic of failed states. Our regime’s failure to maintain the security of the homeland—in the only real sense—is a mark of its illegitimacy.

Childfree Doesn’t Mean Pain-Free

Peachy Keenan

A childfree life is not a pain free life. You do not get to escape the tsuris tsunami; you just get a different one, and you get it at the worst possible time.

'THE ROUNDTABLE' EPISODE #155

Shattering the Debt Ceiling

The Editors

This week the editors are introducing a new recurring segment, “This is Fine,” in which they discuss at a higher level some of the ongoing crises that plague American life in the background of the day-to-day news cycle. This week: debt, and what to do about it. Plus, Ron DeSantis has racked up another win in the education department, blocking the installation of a radical neo-Marxist indoctrination program masquerading under the banner of “AP African-American Studies.” Has the time come at last to dismantle the credentialism-industrial complex? Our editors discuss.