WASHINGTON — “There is, of course, little evidence of ideological bias at CBS News,” Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-Pa.) offered at a House hearing on freedom of the press last Thursday. Clearly, Scanlon lives in a liberal bubble. READ MORE: Bloodbath at the Idiot Box At the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government hearing, former CBS national security reporter Catherine Herridge testified about being let go in February despite her many scoops and Emmy nominations. Conservatives believe Herridge was expendable because of her dogged coverage of the Hunter Biden lapt ..read more

President Joe Biden’s promise to sign a bill to force TikTok’s parent company to either sell the company or be banned from U.S. app stores has made quite a few of his young supporters — many of whom get their news and entertainment on TikTok — rather angry. So angry that the progressive activist account Gen Z for Change, which has endorsed numerous Democrats in the 2024 election, has refused to endorse Biden. (READ MORE: Pro-Hamas Voters Turn On Biden in Michigan) On today’s episode of The Spectator P.M. Podcast, hosts Ellie Gardey and Aubrey Gulick talk about the Biden election campaign ..read more

Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life By Joseph Epstein (Free Press, 269 pages, $29.99) In the introduction to his autobiography, out this month from Free Press (sorry, this doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay for the book), writer Joseph Epstein apologizes for having the audacity to chronicle his quiet life. He needn’t have. Those of us, your servant included, who’ve enjoyed Epstein’s insightful and amusing essays and short stories over the decades see no need to justify learning how Joseph Epstein became Joseph Epstein. How a smart-aleck high school kid in C ..read more

I have little time for CBS News. Like NBC, ABC, and CNN, its stories on the Middle East regularly treat the absurd casualty figures offered by Hamas as trustworthy, without the least note of their faulty methodology and their failure of elementary tests of statistical probability. They take the questionable premises of Ben Rhodes as a starting point and refer to Jewish settlements as obstacles to peace when in every bit of land under Palestinian or Muslim control east of Tunisia, only the barest skeleton of a Jewish community remains. These networks turn attention away from the ongoing plight ..read more

SACRAMENTO — Around this time last year, California Gov. Gavin Newsom toured the Southland —that is, Southern states such as Mississippi and Alabama, as opposed to communities in Southern California — as part of his Campaign for Democracy. It was a weird trip for a liberal California governor, as he lectured people thousands of miles from home about threats to democratic governance even as his own state attacked various freedoms, such as the right to earn a living as a contractor. READ MORE from Steven Greenhut: Patently Stupid Rules Keep Drug Prices High “The problem with our country righ ..read more

Over at Compact magazine on Tuesday, Nina Power wrote “The Trans Reckoning Is Here,” and, as evidence, she cited a report by a British pediatrician named Hilary Cass written for the National Health Service that upturned the faux-scientific basis on which that country has embarked on normalizing “gender-affirming care.” As Power writes: [The report] made waves by calling into question the medical justification for hormonal and surgical treatments of gender-dysphoric youth demanded by activist groups and embraced by the medical establishment. The report states that the use of puberty blockers a ..read more

If Katherine Maher isn’t in the market for a crisis PR professional already, she should be. The new NPR CEO, who took over at the taxpayer-funded radio station in January, has spent the past month lurching from one bad news cycle to another. Christopher Rufo, the Right’s activist-organizer par excellence, has her squarely in his crosshairs. Elon Musk does too. Powerful legacy media outlets such as the New York Times and the Washington Post have begun to take notice. Conservatives smell blood in the water; the right-wing internet has spent the past week gleefully digging through all of Maher’s ..read more

The Democrat double-standard machine is in sixth gear, its default position when it concerns Donald J. Trump. Manhattan Judge Juan Merchan ​slapped a gag order on the former president in his so-called hush-money case. Merchan accused Trump of making “threatening, inflammatory, denigrating​”​ comments about various parties to his legal proceedings, not least Merchan’s daughter. Loren Merchan has been president of Authentic Campaigns, a Democrat digital-marketing company. Her LinkedIn page, captured before it went private, shows that she was director of digital persuasio ..read more

With the spring heat and summer closing in comes a time of excesses, unpleasant brushing against male bodies, shortness of air, and unbridled alcohol consumption. All of these are offensive to the stylish drinker. Communal drunkenness is to be shunned. More so if it includes the sharing of any concoction in the same container and the exchanging of drool on bottles or straws. Getting drunk at popular celebrations has no merit. Drinking when everyone else is drinking is too boring to be classy. The Time and the Place One can drink where one pleases. To comply with the law or not is not incompati ..read more

The great historian Victor Davis Hanson titled his book on World War II The Second World Wars because the conflicts that evolved into that global war began as separate wars: Japan versus China; Italy versus Ethiopia; Japan versus Soviet Russia; Soviet Russia and Germany versus Poland; Soviet Russia versus Finland; England and France versus Germany; Italy versus France; Germany versus Soviet Russia; Japan versus the United States and England; and Germany and Italy versus the United States. Similarly, in 1912 fighting broke out in the Balkans; then Austria-Hungary went to war against Serbia; Ger ..read more