On our podcast David French and Eliza Griswold discuss Griswold’s new book “Circle of Hope.” French recalls a conversation with the late Tim Keller where Keller increasingly saw people unwilling to hash out differences, but would end friendships over politics or religion.

That's absolutely correct. Lots of Republicans feel this way, but they won't say it in public. They know what will happen to them if they do. There are people who want a decent party back.

My goodness but the masks are coming off. Tucker interviews a Nazi sympathizer, and Elon promotes it. A new indictment alleges MAGA influencers are on the Russian payroll. Candace Owens is lost to the total darkness of conspiracies and antisemitism. And don't forget the

"Ukraine is the enemy of this country." "One of the greatest enemies of our nation right now is Ukraine." "We should apologize to Russia" Just wild, deranged material.

"We refuse to allow Columbia to return to a state of 'normalcy.'" If Columbia permits antisemitic disorder again, then it is going to face immense legal liability. These people are promising "unrest and violence in America," and if Columbia can't keep the peace, Columbia should

In late 2022, Bloomberg reported that the blackout challenge was linked to 15 deaths of kids 12 and younger in only 18 months. It does not hurt free speech to impose the same liability on big tech that we’d impose on anyone else in similar circumstances. nytimes.com/2024/09/05/opi…

Come on now! "Mocking" a policy is prohibited? I've fought censorship on college campuses for over 12 years. I thought I'd seen every everything — but this ... The abuse of Title IX continues to drive campus censorship in new and bizarre ways.

It is simply stunning how many mass shooters wave giant red flags (sometimes for months) before they open fire. I don't think red flag laws will always block mass shooters, but they are tailored to addressing dangerous individuals. They're a vital tool. nytimes.com/live/2024/09/0…

Prospective students and parents should read these rankings and make college decisions accordingly. Colleges are not an undifferentiated blob. There are many schools (including elite schools) that respect free speech and maintain institutional neutrality. Choose those schools.

This is 100 percent the correct take.

Yup. JVL is right. If you know anything at all about the economics of YouTubing and/or podcasting, then you know those numbers were absolutely insane. A reasonable person would have immediately started asking hard questions.

"The polling averages today are closer than the final pre-election polling in any presidential election in the era of modern polling — closer than 2000, 2004 or 2012, let alone 2016 or 2020."

Well stated, by Eliot Cohen. "Kicking a country as it buried its murdered hostages was bad form. But the best-known of these hostages, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, was a U.S. citizen . . . So if the kick was aimed at the Jewish state, it landed on Americans too."

Horrifying.

This is exactly right. The Big Lie was obviously false from the beginning. It contained some of the most absurd conspiracies you'll ever read. At the elected GOP level, it was bad faith all the way down.