Source: Law & Liberty
by Josh Appel

“Conservatives are not used to winning. Decades of cultural marginalization and political frustration have conditioned the American Right to define itself by resistance. But now, after a sweeping political victory, many on the Right seem unsure what victory is for. This is a lesson the Left once failed to learn, and it’s one the Right risks forgetting in turn. What happens when your side actually wins? And what happens when you don’t know how to stop fighting? We’ve seen this before in American politics.” (07/07/25)

https://lawliberty.org/what-to-do-when-you-win/

Source: Antiwar.com
by Tina Antonis

“In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Steve Bannon declared China to be Donald Trump’s ‘real threat,’ invoking what he called the ‘Edwardian view of geopolitics as a ‘world island,’ in which the power that dominates Eurasia controls the globe.’ It’s a telling phrase – one that reaches back to the early 20th-century British imperial imagination, and more specifically, to Halford Mackinder’s 1904 essay The Geographical Pivot of History. Writing at the height of the Edwardian era, Mackinder argued that control over the Eurasian ‘Heartland’ would determine global supremacy. His dictum was blunt: ‘Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland; who rules the Heartland commands the World-Island; who rules the World-Island commands the world.’ This worldview didn’t fade with the British Empire.” (07/07/25)

https://original.antiwar.com/t-m-antonis/2025/07/06/board-games-and-bottlenecks/

Source: Quillette
by Steve Salerno

“Historically, the imparting of news was a one-way, top-down process. The keepers of this loose-knit kingdom were vested with the right and responsibility to curate a consensus trove of necessary information to be communicated to the masses. Today, the ethic that drove such men and their media organisations is all but gone. Publications and networks alike now set aside tidy sums for focus groups, marketing consultants, and algorithmic formulas designed to ascertain what readers want to know so that it can be provided to them.” (07/06/25)

https://quillette.com/2025/07/06/purity-profit-and-politics-journalism/

Source: Fox News Forum
by Karol Markowicz

“At the frenetic pace of the Trump administration wins, it’s easy to lose sight of smaller but still important successes. The administration just terminated a contract, and let three others lapse, with Springer Nature. Springer Nature is an academic publishing company which includes a consortium of science publications. Funding such a thing may seem innocuous, but Springer is a behemoth in the scientific publishing world and prone to error and politicized decision-making. As Brian Flood reported at Fox News in late June, ‘The German-owned Springer Nature was forced to issue 2,923 retractions in 2024, according to Retraction Watch. The publishing giant has also been accused of significantly downplaying the COVID lab-leak theory and censoring content to appease the Chinese government. It also has a peer review process that critics believe is dominated by woke groupthink.'” (07/07/25)

https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/trump-cuts-millions-taxpayer-funding-pushing-covid-cover-up

Source: The UnPopulist
by Larry Diamond

“Donald Trump’s isolationist movement to put ‘America First’ springs from a deep contempt for multilateral institutions and alliances, and for any rule or organization that prevents the U.S. from doing whatever it wants in the world. But what constrained the U.S. through transparent rules constrained our adversaries much more, by creating international coalitions against their predatory ambitions. America has not been a perfect and consistent adherent to the rules it itself established. But Trump has declared war on them to advance his isolationism. This will cede America’s global status at a time when it is already under challenge — to the world’s detriment and its own.” (07/06/25)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/trump-is-gutting-every-source-of