With the one-child policy in effect, China's fertility rate flattened out. Once it was removed, the fertility rate has collapsed. The CCP has now achieved its goal of one child per woman, years after it stopped wanting to achieve it.

I wrote about the sudden open embrace of textbook cancel culture on the right—something they used to decry.

Want to float my meta take on why Kirk murder feels different, conclusive. This is more a take for the libs because it’s something I think the MAGA populists already clearly understand: The lib consensus, iterated broadly with marginal differentiation, is that while maybe Kirk *didn’t deserve it,* he was a Bad Person who Spread Hate. The proper inference from this sentiment is that the lib permission-structure, consensus-manufacturing apparatus is exhausted if not broken and is terrified and no longer capable of tolerating oppositional free speech. Just look at Kirk: he was an affable, slightly goofy, happy warrior who actually kind of looked like a big kid and did viral debate-me videos that were mild and relatively respectful. Such a man being considered ‘dangerous’ (which is what their favorite euphemism, ‘hateful,’ really means) is diagnostic of institutional sickness and ideological fragility. Affable, goofy Charlie Kirk ambles in and starts peeling off students and knocking down shibboleths and there’s nothing they can do it about. That’s crazy! In turn, those outside the lib bubble - populists, conservatives, disaffected libs and moderates - see both that the institutions are authoritarian and weak and that those who are not doctrinaire libs have no place within them. It’s clear both that the institutions are not worth re-capturing AND that the libs can’t be reasoned with (nor, given their weakness, do they have to be). And so what the populists are really after now is not just to win on ‘issues’ but something much more ambitious: to raze the whole thing to the ground, level the institutions, dismantle the core ideological dispensations from the post-war era, and then go ahead and discredit and destroy elemental 20th century notions of progress, because why not? What does a paranoid and fragile institutional and ideological regime have to offer them if even Charlie Kirk couldn’t be tolerated? Why not level it all and start from scratch? That’s the sort of finality and conclusiveness, from both sides, that Kirk’s murder seems to signify to me.

This is the first NPR/PBS station I've seen that's going out of business as a result of the federal rescission: radio.wpsu.org/2025-09-11/pe…

McCarthy should have pushed back. It's Democrats and never-Trumpers who need to stop inciting violence.