Category: News Updates

New 30 Percent Tariff Threats

New 30 Percent Tariff Threats Plus: Clemency revelations, climate change law affects New York housing prices, Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship, and more… LIZ WOLFE What’s his game plan? On Saturday, President Donald Trump threatened to impose 30 percent tariffs on Mexico and all European Union countries, for seemingly no reason […]

The Miracles of James Schuyler

WEB VERSION July 14, 2025 Random Splendor “Merely to say, to see and say, things / 
as they are”: This was how James Schuyler defined his aspiration as a poet. It sounds humble, but for Schuyler this commitment to empiricism entailed a whole philosophy of form. Reading Schuyler, […]

Xi Père

Sponsored by Bodleian Library Publishing Ian Johnson Lessons of the Father New biographies of Xi Zhongxun and Hu Yaobang provide insights into the opaque culture of the Chinese Communist Party and the political ascent of Xi’s son, Xi Jinping. Anahid Nersessian How Can I Help You? The hypocrisies […]

Now isn’t now

Week XXVIII, MMXXV The news media creates a strange temporal distortion: On a business model driven by our time and attention, it inundates us with endless streams of breaking developments that demand immediate attention, while obscuring the deeper currents that are actually shaping our world. Every day brings […]

My Arrest in Laredo, Texas

SATURDAY, JULY 12, 2025 The ‘Global War on Terror’ cost the American people at least eight trillion dollars. It also took the lives of perhaps a million people. – Daniel McAdams, “Global War on Terror” Is Over. Terror Won.” [2025] HORNBERGER’S BLOG July 11, 2025 My Arrest in […]

The Kash Patel Loyalty Test

The Kash Patel Loyalty Test Plus: Canada tariffs, New York City overtaken by sharks, Paxton cheating scandal, and more… LIZ WOLFE What is the FBI doing? Since the start of the Trump administration, the FBI has ramped up their use of polygraphs, or lie-detector tests. Used in the past […]

Elon Musk’s Latest Invention

JULY 11, 2025 Elon Musk’s Latest Invention Why I Welcome Elon Musk’s “America Party” → The latest invention up Elon Musk’s sleeve is… a political party.   Last weekend, the billionaire Trump defector announced, after apparently polling users on X, that he would create a new “America Party.” […]

7/11/25: Flagrant Pod TURNS on Trump, Dersh Says Epstein COVERUP, Billionaires PLOT Against Zohran

Krystal, Emily and Saagar discuss the flagrant podcast turning on Trump, Dersh claims Epstein coverup, billionaires plot to defeat Zohran & MORE! James Li: https://x.com/5149jamesli Timestamps: (00:00)Intro (3:58) Podcast Turning on Trump (25:52) Zohran Mamdani (49:26) Epstein Coverup (58:26) Israel (1:02:24) Bill Ackman (1:15:22) AMA (1:24:20) Ryan (1:39:08) […]

A Tragedy in Texas

NATIONAL REVIEW JULY 11, 2025 ◼ Please read this newsletter before a district judge enjoins it.   ◼ To call the flash flooding that erupted across central Texas on July 4 a tragedy is to downplay the scope of the cataclysm. Trapped on all sides by high barometric pressure, a […]

Sick, Sad World

Sponsored by Sony Pictures Classics Adam Gaffney, David U. Himmelstein, and Steffie Woolhandler The Dismantling of American Health Care We must resist Trump’s war on medical access and knowledge today, even as we prepare to rebuild something better tomorrow. Casey A. Williams ‘The Red and the Green’ The […]

Tariff Vengeance

Tariff Vengeance Plus: Prime sales slumping, Hill Country flood victim search continues, Diocese of San Bernardino takes on ICE, and more… LIZ WOLFE Trump comes to Bolsonaro’s aid: President Donald Trump has, at times, claimed that his tariffs are due to other countries’ unfair trade practices: “We are going […]

Eternal return

Week XXVIII, MMXXV Brought to you by Codecademy Recently, in The Signal: What does Germany’s new military expansion mean for Europe? Liana Fix on Berlin’s mission to build the Continent’s most powerful army. Today: Why are studios releasing so few original new films? Andrew deWaard on how movie […]

Much Right-Wing Ado About Mamdani

TUESDAY, JULY 8, 2025 The most stringent curb that ever legislation imposed on tyranny. – T.B. MacAulay, commenting on Habeas Corpus, History of England, I [1848] HORNBERGER’S BLOG July 8, 2025 Much Right-Wing Ado About Mamdani Conservatives and Republicans are up in arms over the nomination and likely election […]

The US/Israeli War vs. Iran, Rationality, Opportunity, Conceding the Obvious, Continued American Dominance, Iran as Paper Tiger, TURBO AMERICA

“There’s no time like the present!” The US/Israeli War vs. Iran, Rationality, Opportunity, Conceding the Obvious, Continued American Dominance, Iran as Paper Tiger, TURBO AMERICA Niccolo Soldo Jul 08, 2025 Share In the Realist School of International Relations Theory, (nation -) states are the primary actors on the […]

TSA Policies Become Slightly Less Stupid

If you’re having trouble viewing this email, you can view it in a browser here. TSA Policies Become Slightly Less Stupid Plus: Texas flooding update, shark policy, tariffs affecting Prime Day, and more… LIZ WOLFE The TSA ends its stupidest rule ever after 20 years of pointlessness: The Transportation Security […]

Netanyahu Meets With Trump

If you’re having trouble viewing this email, you can view it in a browser here. Netanyahu Meets With Trump Plus: Zohran Mamdani’s creative race-identification, catastrophic Hill Country flooding, and more… LIZ WOLFE Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with President Donald Trump today: It’s the first meeting since the U.S. […]

‘The World Is So Rare’

Michelle Nijhuis Saving Graces What we conserve and why—art, heirlooms, animals, even the planet—are increasingly urgent questions. Jarrett Earnest ‘I Am the Heir to Delacroix’ Jack Whitten’s brilliantly restless innovation is a rigorous interrogation and a surging expansion of what painting can do. Aryeh Neier Locked Up by Erdoğan […]

The New York World

The weekend before the thirty-three-year-old socialist Zohran Mamdani stunned Andrew Cuomo and the city of New York by winning a decisive victory in the mayoral primary race, the NYR Online published an assessment by Max Rivlin-Nadler of the powerful coalition that Mamdani drew together: “people who love New York City but […]

Add It to the Tab

Add It to the Tab Plus: Trade deal with Vietnam, Romanian right-wing presidential candidate sent to trial, and more… LIZ WOLFE President Donald Trump’s domestic policy agenda advances: At 3:30 a.m., House Republicans advanced the policy bill. “After a day and night of paralysis on the House floor, and […]

The Parrot in the Machine

  Our July 24 issue is now online, with Joyce Carol Oates on serial killers and toxic metals, Fintan O’Toole on Trump’s domestic army, David Shulman on the second Nakba, Regina Marler on the Brothers Grimm, Michelle Nijhuis on what we save, Peter Canby on the murder of […]

ICE Agents Deserve No Privacy

Most Read Trump’s Budget Just Passed the Senate. Brace for a Massive Increase in ICE Raids. Matt Sledge The budget gives $175 billion to immigration enforcement. “The orders of magnitude are going to be multiplied,” immigration experts say. Read More → Senate Passes Trump’s Big, Beautiful Boon for […]

What Freedom of Speech?

FRIDAY, JULY 4, 2025 What a glorious morning for America! – Samuel Adams, Upon hearing the gunfire at Lexington [April 19, 1775] HORNBERGER’S BLOG July 3, 2025 What Freedom of Speech? In a totalitarian or authoritarian dictatorship, government officials do not need the support of the citizenry to exterminate […]