November 4, 2026

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Michigan Senator Elissa Slotkin recently hinted at using the power of Congress to investigate White House officials, hoping, she stated, to send a “deterrence message” to college graduates who may be considering working for the Trump administration. Others on the Left have suggested that Elon Musk should be in prison.

Ten years into the Trump era, we should take this kind of talk seriously, Christopher F. Rufo argues. During Trump’s first term, Democrats impeached him twice, orchestrated politically motivated prosecutions, and published his mugshot. They can’t stand that Trump was able to become president, and that his ideas enjoy popular support.

“They want to turn Trump into another Richard Nixon,” Rufo writes. “If the president ends his political career in disgrace—or in prison—it will serve as a warning to any future right-wing populist that that is the inevitable fate of his movement and, if he attempts to win the presidency, his life.”

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Parisians are subject to a number of socialist programs, including public housing, child-care subsidies, universal health care, and rent control. They’ve received some short-term benefits from them, but the long-term ramifications have been severe. France’s unemployment rate stands at 8.2 percent, nearly double the U.S. rate. Youth unemployment exceeds 20 percent. The nation’s economy is stagnating, its debt soaring. And now, protesters are rioting in the streets over high living costs.

Given that Mayor Zohran Mamdani has proposed numerous programs similar to those that have helped cause France’s current crisis, it’s worth asking: Is New York City next?

It’s quite possible, Craig R. Roach and John Garnett write. Mamdani has pushed for a rent freeze, city-run grocery stores, free buses, free childcare, and a $30 minimum wage. “Massive budget outlays, economic regulations, and central planning will tamp down long-term economic growth, drain the city’s coffers, and work to the detriment of the very people these programs were supposed to help,” Roach and Garnett argue.

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South Carolina’s Clemson University recently approved the creation of a new department: The Lyceum. It will create new courses, hire faculty, and offer a degree program, all with the goal of revolutionizing higher education.

“The Lyceum will use a Great Books approach to studying the history of liberty, capitalism, the American Founding, and the principles of moral character,” writes C. Bradley Thompson, acting department chair. “Together, our faculty and students will explore the relationship between ideas and action; the history of human accomplishment; the political and cultural architecture of free societies; the economic principles and institutions of the free-enterprise system; and the requirements of character formation.”

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