Already recorded and on School of War in coming weeks: Senator Roger Wicker, Matt Pottinger, Kate Kuzminski, Will Inboden, Peter Feaver, Eric Edelman, Tom Mahnken, Ben Noon...

"Maher notes that he’s faced increased criticism in recent years for directing more of his ridicule toward the Left. His response? 'Well, yes, they’re a lot funnier than they used to be, and I’m a comedian.'" Read Ian Haworth's review in the Weekend Beacon freebeacon.com/culture/smugge…

The Labor Day Weekend Beacon features Andy Ferguson on Griffin Dunne's memoir, Abe Greenwald on Adam Kirsch's On Settler Colonialism, Gary Saul Morson on Joe Epstein's essay collection & Kevin R Kosar on the French 75. Enjoy! freebeacon.com/arts-culture-o…

"'Speed reading?' Joe asks. 'I’d as soon take a course in speed-eating or speed-lovemaking.'" Gary Saul Morson reviews Joseph Epstein's Familiarity Breeds Content in the latest Weekend Beacon. freebeacon.com/culture/parsin…

Reparations for slavery? Harris is coy. Universal Basic Income? She's demure. Abolishing private health insurance? The Harris whisperers say she's no longer interested. But she hasn't said so herself. And Dana Bash didn't ask her about the neo-socialist Medicare for All on CNN.

Terrific episode of “Getting Hammered” w/ Mary Katharine Ham and Victorino Matus, podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/get… for many reasons. It starts w/ funny riffs on toddlers going to pre-school, food delivery and more but then (1) alerts me to the Governor Walz and his new lying story —the PhD he was

The WB lineup: Andrew Roberts on Winston Churchill, Harvey Klehr on To Overthrow the World, Matt Lewis on Tevi Troy's The Power & the Money, Mike Watson on Singapore, & David Skinner on Says Who? Keep Calm and read the Weekend Beacon! freebeacon.com/arts-culture-o…

"Militant antifascism could suddenly morph into a pact with Hitler’s Germany. Such ... shifts did not undermine the regime because they were based on the principle that the Party had a monopoly on truth and all good communists had to accept its policies." freebeacon.com/culture/the-st…

Harvey Klehr reviews Sean McMeekin's To Overthrow the World: The Rise and Fall and Rise of Communism.

I was just talking to my son the other day about Dr. Strangelove and that the bomber pilot was James Earl Jones. RIP!

Love this aside in Matt Lewis's review of Tevi Troy's The Power & the Money: "After Reagan left office, [Lew] Wasserman tried to get him to appear in Back to the Future Part III as the mayor of Hill Valley; Reagan did not accede to this lobbying effort." freebeacon.com/culture/the-ar…

"Says Who? proceeds through a venerable circuit of quintessential usage and grammar dilemmas: double negatives and why other dialects and languages allow multiple negation," writes David Skinner. Double negatives! Oh yeah, that's the stuff... freebeacon.com/culture/a-war-…

Who ate all the gabagool? My guess is Christopher J. Scalia—he reports on the Paisans for Harris Zoom call—a virtual abbondanza! freebeacon.com/democrats/ital…

“I am out of sympathy and often repelled by what passes for travel writing today—weak, flatulent, unambitious.” Paul Theroux talks to Tunku Varadarajan about Burma Sahib and more in the latest Weekend Beacon. freebeacon.com/culture/orwell…