This fun @MaxRaskin interview gives me the chance to plug some faves (in alpha order): @Commentary; @J_Insider; @NRO; @ReaganInstitute; @RuthlessPod; @Sefaria; @JimGeraghty & @GregCorombos’s #ThreeMartiniLunch; @AmorTowles: @wsjopinion; & @YUStrausCenter  https://t.co/qZF28FXAdn

“Qatar’s strategy of infiltrating virtually every element of Western society — from media to sports to academia to government — has rendered it a powerful & at times dangerous force…” @MelissaEWeiss @MatthewAShea_ @J_Insider

“‘There once was a man called #Rousseau,’ #ThomasCarlyle reputedly said, ‘who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first.’” ⁦@wrmead⁩ @wsjopinion

“By memorializing known terror operatives & rewarding a propaganda outlet, the #AssociationandClubofForeignPressCorrespondentsUSA transformed what should have been a celebration of journalistic integrity into a moral failure” @Gil_Hoffman @HonestReporting

“The tool of politics is to extract resources from the general taxpayer w minimum offense & to distribute the proceeds among innumerable claimants in such a way as to maximize support at the polls.” The late #JamesSchlesinger, as cited by @davidrhenderson

“For politicians, trying to reform the veteran disability system & America’s other broken entitlement programs can seem like picking up a grenade. Easier to keep the money flowing, even if the spending eventually blows up on taxpayers.” @AllysiaFinley @WSJ

“#OhioState had beaten #Indiana 30 straight times. Thirty! The last time the #Hoosiers stopped the #Buckeyes was in October 1988. #Reagan held down the Oval. The Journal arrived exclusively in print, in staid black and white.’” @JasonGay

“Colleagues and acquaintances say @MaxRaskin is a charismatic, libertarian-leaning Renaissance man and super networker, with a longtime fascination for cryptocurrency and a more recent ardor for @DanielLurie.” @JillianIles @SFStandard

“‘No #SidCaesar, no #MelBrooks,’ Brooks, now 99, has said. Brooks, a frequently cited source in @DavidMargolick’s book, describes how he & Reiner hatched the character of the 2,000 Year Old Man working on #YourShowofShows.” @KHeller on #WhenCaesarWasKing

“a @NYTimes examination of Mr. Biden’s record found that he and his closest advisers repeatedly rebuffed recommendations that could have addressed the border crisis faster, and eased what became a potent issue...” @cflav

“I hate moral equivalent of war arguments. They are an attempt to short-circuit democratic debate by bullying people into compliance with a collective enterprise, whether they agree with it or not” @JonahDispatch @TheDispatch #GFile

“In a new book, #ASeatattheTable, #MitchSilk outlines his religious journey as he progressed through his career. He writes longingly of the joy of returning home to Brooklyn before Shabbat, & the difficulty of driving away…” @GSDeutch @J_Insider

“When you open your mouth in Israel, people are not interested if you’re nice or not nice, tall or short, if you’re blonde or brown haired, they’re just interested if you’re for Bibi or against Bibi.” @AriShavit to @DanSenor. #CallMeBack

“The billable hour is not a sacrosanct system etched on the tablets of Moses. It is a 20th-century invention that will collapse when the cost of producing effective legal work falls dramatically because of AI.” @MaxRaskin

It’s a theory: “We may never fully understand why Zohran Mamdani’s visit with Trump was so chummy, but it seems a safe bet that the New York mayor elect’s penchant for jackets and ties didn’t hurt.” @ShaneIsland ⁦@PostStyle⁩

“right-wing antisemitism tends to emerge from fringe personalities, not from elected officials. What we’re seeing among Democrats is a broad, networked antisemitic movement with cultural power and political influence.” Jennifer Bayer Michaels @wsjopinion

“university leaders must acknowledge that the test-optional admissions experiment has been an abject failure. They need to reverse course, ignore the screaming of DEI dead-enders, & reinstate the #SAT, #ACT or #CLT requirement…” @BenSasse @wsjopinion

#KamalaHarris “was thoroughly disappointed by #Walz’s performance as running mate. She describes watching him in the vice-presidential debate on TV & saying, ‘You’re not there to make friends with the guy who is attacking your running mate.’” @Jimgeraghty

⁦@TeviTroy⁩ on William F. Buckley Jr. at 100 👇👇👇

2/2 “‘… because that’s how, as we saw on the Democratic side, they’re able to infiltrate & take over the party.’ @MattBrooksRJC, along w other Republicans, suggested that antisemitism is still relegated to the outskirts of the GOP." @SamBBenson @AlecAHernandez @Politico

1/2 "@MattBrooksRJC, CEO of @RJC, said his organization will focus on targeting any Fuentes-backed candidates. ‘We just have to ensure that none of those people get through the wire & get elected…’”@SamBBenson @AlecAHernandez @Politico https://t.co/uT4xLjQBaY