The Trump administration brought its culture war agenda to top US military brass in a summit on Tuesday, lecturing officers on fitness and grooming standards.
On Tuesday, William G. Young—a federal district court judge in Massachusetts and a Reagan appointee—issued a decision filled with obvious contempt for the unconstitutional actions of the current president of the United States. The ruling comes in a case brought by academic associations seeking to block the Trump administration’s policy of targeting and arresting noncitizens […]
The Commerce Committee chair, R-Texas, told Semafor that he’s already in talks on an alternate solution to what’s becoming an untenable situation in athletics.
Elon Musk doesn’t like empathy, which he calls the “fundamental weakness of western civilization,” which people “exploit.” The late Charlie Kirk did not like empathy either, commenting that "I can't stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that—it does a lot of damage." (He said he preferred “sympathy,” but did not explain what he meant, and elsewhere suggested that it was unimaginable for him to empathize with his own child.) Two conservative Christians have published books arguing that empathy can be corrosive, Allie Beth Stuckey’s Toxic Empathy and Joe Rigney’s The Sin of Empathy. Pastor Josh McPherson, on his “Stronger Man Nation” podcast, was emphatically anti-empathy: “Empathy almost needs to be struck from the Christian vocabulary… Empathy is dangerous. Empathy is toxic. Empathy will align you with hell.”
More than 800 members of the US military’s top brass, including hundreds of generals and admirals, gathered for an extraordinary meeting in Quantico, Virginia, on Tuesday, where they were greeted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s order to return to “the highest male standard” in military fitness tests and training exercises. In the same breath, Hegseth […]