July 26, 2026

FUN:

Posted at 8:56 am by Glenn Reynolds

TRIGGERNOMETRY INTERVIEWS PETER HITCHENS: “We Live in the Age of Delusions.”

At the conclusion of the clip, Hitchens tells his interviewers:

Intelligence chiefs keep coming out and saying we have to prepare for war. Russia is a great threat.

Well, you can believe that if you want, though I find it a struggle.

I always remember going to Moscow—I think it was in 2008. It was the first big parade of the new Russian Army. They had decided they were going to restart the Red Square parades. I’d watched the last one back in November 1990.

My office said, “Why don’t you go out and watch it?” So I watched it with my old friend Igor, whose father had been a Soviet nuclear submarine commander who really knew his military stuff. We stood on the balcony of th hotel, watching it from as close as we could get.

I enjoyed the parade as much as the rest. But at the end of it, Igor turned to me and said, “What did you think of our great display of strategic scrap metal?” [laughter]

And he was quite right! The big new weapons—they probably only had two or three. Most of the stuff they were able able to put on display was probably old, much of it dating back to the Soviet era.

We knew—and we still know—that the Russian military is fantastically corrupt and incompetent, and the training of its soldiers is a disgrace. It’s a terrible army. After four years, they still haven’t managed to take Kharkiv, 20 miles from the border.

So to turn this into a great bogeyman which is supposedly about to arrive at Dunkirk with its tanks pointed at the British coast just doesn’t seem to me to be realistic.

But the intelligence people, retired generals, ex-defense ministers, and NATO chiefs are constantly trying to prepare us for war. The last thing I noticed was some suggestion that we should all start hoarding food and medicines in case there was a war.

There is a real attempt to get the British people to become war-minded, and I think that can only end sadly.

Obsessing over the Russians “about to arrive at Dunkirk” is a great to ignore who is crossing the Channel: Iran smuggling agents into UK as Channel migrants.

Posted at 8:44 am by Ed Driscoll

ATLAS SHRUGS:

Posted at 8:14 am by Ed Driscoll

CLOWN SHOW:

Posted at 8:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

UN-AMERICAN:

Posted at 7:51 am by Glenn Reynolds

ROGER SIMON: The Jews Should Leave New York.

It’s hard to admit this, but we are now at a similar juncture. Jews are not safe around the world, but particularly in New York, a city to which they made huge, one could almost say unparalleled, contributions in finance, architecture, city planning, medicine, education, theater, music, radio and television, museums and art, and virtually every field of science and culture you can think of.

That’s indisputable.

But, ironically, it is time for the Jews to go.

They must leave New York not only to save it but also to save themselves.

Not all will do so. Some are too frightened or too embedded in fusty left-wing politics that has repeatedly failed.

But those who do go, not just titans of Wall Street but regular middle-class folks, will take with them such a significant portion of the city’s tax base that Mamdani’s not-so-Democratic Socialist goals will be more unattainable than they already are.

New York will no longer be the country’s economic capital. Miami and/or Dallas will be, if they are not already.

Lessons might even be learned. Meanwhile, they can go be antisemites by themselves.

New York morphed into London so quickly that everyone noticed:

Posted at 7:44 am by Ed Driscoll

I MEAN, IT’S HARD TO ARGUE WITH THAT.

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

HE SEES THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE:

Posted at 7:30 am by Glenn Reynolds

TROLL LEVEL: POTUS DJT.

Also, consider the media environment that Trump is trolling:

Posted at 7:14 am by Ed Driscoll

I’LL TAKE IT:

Posted at 7:06 am by Glenn Reynolds

THE ENEMY WITHIN:

Posted at 7:00 am by Glenn Reynolds

THIS WEEKEND IS A BIT INSANE: I’ll do my regular posting tomorrow, but I forgot to post the meme post here earlier, and I know a lot of you like it.  So:  Meme Days Of Summer.

Posted at 12:26 am by Sarah Hoyt

July 25, 2026

AND AGAIN: Terror Attack in Berlin.  “Fifteen people were injured, with one having died so far. German police are investigating whether the attack was terror-related, but I am not sure what there is to investigate. The perpetrator drove a car into a gay crowd at a high rate of speed, and then attacked people with a knife. There’s your investigation. I assume the terrorist was a Muslim, but it is possible he was some other kind of extremist. We will find out soon.”

UPDATE: Its origin and purpose, still a total mystery.

MORE: Suspect in Berlin Pride attack identified as ‘Islamist.’ “‘Based on the investigators’ initial findings, we have already identified a suspected perpetrator,’ Florian Nath, a spokesman for Berlin police, said, adding that the force’s search for the suspect was ‘proceeding at full speed’. ‘He is known to us as a member of Islamic circles here in Berlin … we still have no information whatsoever regarding his specific motives, the exact sequence of events, or his role in the crime itself.’”

Posted at 10:14 pm by Ed Driscoll

OPEN THREAD: Bloggin’ all over the world.

Posted at 9:30 pm by Glenn Reynolds

IT’S A FORM OF BULLYING, OR MAYBE TYRANNY: The protesters are not just expressing themselves but demanding that other people stop living their lives freely and become one with the protest. “I am reminded of something Michelle Obama said back in 2008: ‘Barack Obama … is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.'”

Posted at 8:39 pm by Glenn Reynolds

HOW TO MURDER INNOVATION WITH THIS 1 WEIRD TRICK:

UPDATE (From Ed): The Assassination Fan Base.

Posted at 8:30 pm by Stephen Green