Source: Adam Smith Institute
by Madsen Pirie

“Obesity in its modern, mass form is surprisingly recent. In America, adult rates were fairly stable at around one in seven from the early 1960s to the late 1970s. Then something changed. From about 1980 the line turned sharply upward, and by 2000 roughly three in ten adults were obese. By 2022 an estimated 107 million American adults, 42.5% of the adult population, were obese, up from 34.7 million (19.3%) in 1990. Britain followed the same curve about a decade behind. … The timing is the most useful clue. Genes did not change in 1980. Willpower did not suddenly collapse across two nations. Something in the environment shifted, and the evidence points mostly at what we eat rather than how much we move.” (11/05/26)

https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/obesity-causes-and-cures

Source: Law & Liberty
by Michael Lucchese

“Alexander Hamilton is well-remembered as a protagonist in America’s founding drama. He is celebrated widely as a war hero, foreign policy genius, architect of the economy, and framer of the Constitution. Even over the yawning distance of years, young Americans are inspired by the romance of his life. Conservatives and progressives alike claim his mantle to justify their pet projects. ‘There is an elegant memorial in Washington to Jefferson, but none to Hamilton,’ columnist George F. Will once observed. ‘However, if you seek Hamilton’s monument, look around. You are living in it.’ Though his Federalist Party failed, America became a deeply Hamiltonian country.” (11/05/26)

https://lawliberty.org/book-review/hamiltons-counter-revolutionary-republicanism/

Source: Gideon’s Substack
by Noah Millman

“Acknowledging the feel that this ain’t exactly real, or it’s real but it ain’t exactly there.” (11/05/26)

https://gideons.substack.com/p/democracy-is-coming-to-india-and

Source: Common Sense
by Paul Jacob

“Yesterday, Donald Trump and the Republicans took the proverbial shellacking. We’ve seen this sort of thing before. It’s not unheard of. Americans repudiate failed programs, and Trump, who promised to keep the American people out of war did the precise opposite of what got him elected in the first place. Only by grace extended from the American people could the application of the varnish be withheld. … This could be a warning to all: the awfulness of your opponents will not stay the hand of shellac . . . er, citizen correction.” (11/05/26)

https://thisiscommonsense.org/2026/11/04/what-was-applied/

Source: New York Post
by Miranda Devine

“As we survey the wreckage of Republican political fortunes, it’s clear what comes next. Payback is the first priority of Democrats who want to use their victories to grind Republicans into the mud. You saw it in the gloating, Mamdani-esque victory speech from Michigan Sen.-elect Abdul El-Sayed, in which he sarcastically referred to Vice President JD Vance as ‘habibi’ who will have to eat crow when the VP swears him in. You saw it in Minnesota Sen.-elect Peggy Flanagan’s speech: ‘We will rip ICE apart.’ You saw it in the salivating from Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) about impeaching Trump. You saw it in the ugly threats against Elon Musk and ‘greedy billionaires’.” (11/05/26)

https://nypost.com/2026/11/05/opinion/miranda-devine-look-in-the-mirror-president-trump-after-republicans-midterm-rout/