Links for 5–13-25
shedding the pillars of civilization
🎯 Victor Davis Hanson: The decivilizing of America. From: American Greatness. From secure borders to functioning cities, America is shedding the hard-won pillars of civilization — by choice, not chance — in a sweeping, top-down descent into disorder.
US, China reach 90-day agreement to reduce reciprocal tariffs. From: Craig Nigrelli/Straight Arrow News. The new deal will reduce American levies on Chinese products from 145% to 30%. Additionally, China’s reciprocal tariffs of 125% on American imports will decrease to 10%.
👉 Trump targets Big Pharma: Slashes drug prices with ‘most favored nation' rule, aims to cut out middlemen. From: Zero Hedge. The "most favored nation" policy would tie the prices the U.S. government pays for certain medications to lower rates charged in other developed countries.
DHS is not finished with New Jersey lawmakers caught on camera storming ICE facility. From: Sierra Marlee/American Wire. Democrats may soon find out that they’re not the only ones who can believe “nobody is above the law.”
🔎 Both parties must act to limit surging electricity inflation. From: Paul Bledsoe/Real Clear Energy. Prices are surging in the electricity sector, presenting new headwinds for U.S. consumers and manufacturing alike.
Do we even need a Surgeon General? From: Bobbie Anne Flower Cox/Brownstone Institute. We have enough “parenting” going on as it is.
🚩 “An act of solidarity”: Sotomayor calls for lawyers to “fight this fight” in controversial speech. From: Jonathan Turley. This is not the time to be seen as speaking in “solidarity” with one side.
What do Democrats do next? From: Christopher Chantrill/American Thinker. Today everything Democrats do infuriates the middle class.
⭐️ The war on landlords. From: Steven Malanga/City-Journal. From Covid eviction bans to tenant-slanted laws, property owners are under financial siege. Here’s what Trump can do about it.
‘No excuses.’ From: Ireland Owens/Daily Caller. Newsom asks cities to clear homeless encampments after throwing billions at problem.
🤐 German censorship highlights Europe's eroding free speech protections. From: J D Tuccille/Reason. America stands alone in valuing and protecting free speech.
How they “clunkered” us. From: Eric Peters Autos. Why are cars – specifically, used cars – so expensive today? They weren’t once. In fact, there was once an abundance of used cars so cheap teenagers could commonly afford them.