From the article -- According to the survey of nearly 1,400 Americans, 51% now use AI tools for research, up 14 points in a single year. Yet only 21% trust AI-generated information most or almost all the time, while 76% trust it only occasionally or hardly at all. More than half -- 55% -- believe AI will do more harm than good in their daily lives. Seven in 10 expect it to reduce job opportunities, and among Gen Z — the most digitally fluent generation — that labor market pessimism reaches 81%.
What we are watching is not technological growing pains. It is a structural fracture in how Americans relate to truth, authority, and judgment — and the consequences reach far beyond quarterly productivity reports.
We have seen something like this before. When social media took hold, users kept scrolling through platforms they increasingly distrusted because disengagement felt too costly. But there is a critical difference: social media shaped what people saw. AI shapes what people think.
2) “Graduated, Not Educated: Inflated transcripts and empty credentials are driving parents to challenge schools in court.” (Pete Connolly, American Spectator)
From the article -- American education is broken; this isn’t a secret. But parents are starting to fight back with lawyers—not because their kids aren’t getting into Harvard, but because schools are failing to deliver any semblance of effectiveness and to make even the most basic promise of education itself.
Consider the recent case in Washington State. Makena Simonsen, a student in the Edmonds School District, graduated with a 3.87 GPA. As a parent, you’d be saying, “Great job, nice work.” That is precisely what the administration wants — to keep parents off their backs. Yet, according to attorney Lara Hruska of Seattle’s Cedar Law, this student was reading at an elementary level. This “empathy” diploma, her attorney asserts, did not open doors — it “shut the door” on further support.
According to the lawsuit, the district effectively passed her along without ensuring she had mastered basic skills. This “empathy” diploma, her attorney asserts, did not open doors — it “shut the door” on further support. By receiving a standard diploma, she was disqualified from a transition program that could have helped her develop basic life and vocational skills. In turn, this cost the student and her parents money. She had planned to enroll in the district’s free vocational program, which helps transition special-needs students into independent life, but discovered she was ineligible because she received a regular high school diploma. Instead, she enrolled in Bellevue College’s Occupational and Life Skills program at a cost of more than $40,000 annually.
For the Simonsen family, what was presented as an achievement became, in practice, a financial barrier. The lawsuit goes further, alleging what has been described as “benevolent discrimination” — a system that, in an effort to avoid difficult truths, lowers expectations while maintaining the appearance of progress. The result is not compassion. It is educational malpractice.
3) “Why Islamists and progressives have so much in common: A shared loathing of the West is the bedrock of this unholy alliance.” (Daniel Ben-Ami, spiked!)
From the article -- Given this, it is hardly a surprise that Islamism and progressivism have such an affinity for one another. They have an awful lot in common: an aversion to modernity, hostility to democracy, cynicism towards the nation state and intolerance towards alternative views. Despite differences on some questions – most notably in relation to gay rights – the overlap is considerable.
There is also a particular affinity between mainstream identity politics and Westernised Muslims. As French political scientist Olivier Roy has noted, many Muslims in the West do not identify with the nations in which they live. For some of them, Islam is not so much a religion but a form of identity, one that precludes any attachment to a secular country. Such individuals are often attracted to Islamist ideas and networks. In effect, they embody a particular variant of the anti-nationhood trend that dominates identity politics in the West.
The progressive indulgence of Islamism is not primarily driven by cowardice or a propensity for appeasement – although that is certainly a factor. Neither is it solely a case of, as the hackneyed phrase goes, ‘turkeys voting for Christmas’. It is because progressives and Islamists agree on so much that they march arm in arm together.
The fundamental problem is not only that an extreme strain of Islam is corrupting an otherwise healthy body politic in the West. It is also that Islamism and progressivism share so much in common. The modern Western left offers fertile ground for Islamism to flourish on.
4) “We Really Can Get Rid of the United Nations Now: Hypocrisy -- and amnesia -- continues to reign among the kleptocrats in Turtle Bay.” (Scott McKay, American Spectator)
From the article -- If ever there was any doubt as to the utterly worthless character of the United Nations -- the universe’s premier wretched hive of scum and villainy -- that was put to bed on Wednesday of last week.
The end, not that there shouldn’t already have been an end, came when the successor regime to the West African Ashanti Kingdom — that being the nation of Ghana — proposed a resolution indicating that the trans-Atlantic slave trade from the 15th through the 19th centuries was the worst sin against humanity, and called for reparations to be paid.
And the vote was 123-3 in favor, with 52 abstentions.
You probably already heard about this idiocy. If you haven’t, here’s the link to the resolution. Don’t drink anything while you’re reading. You might spit it all over your screen. The three nations voting against the Ghanaian gambit were Israel, Argentina, and the United States. Most of the 52 abstentions were European and other Western countries (the U.K., Canada, Japan, etc.).
Hilariously, the Arab and African countries that have engaged in slave trading both before and since the flowering of the trans-Atlantic flesh market were the bulk of the 123 “yes” votes.
5) “Do not look away from the rising fires of Jew hatred: Everyone should be unsettled by the explosion of anti-Semitism in Britain.” (Naomi Firsht, spiked!)
From the article -- It has been just six months since the murderous Heaton Park synagogue attack in Manchester. So this is life now for the Jewish community of Britain: violence and destruction at regular intervals, increasingly heightened security around Jewish buildings and areas, and a constant feeling of unease.
Can we all agree this is madness? How can it be that, as a child here, it almost never crossed my mind not to be openly and fearlessly Jewish, and yet I now wait in trepidation for the day one of my young children returns home from school or an outing, asking me to explain Jew hatred?
In just the past few weeks, a branch of Gail’s bakery in Archway was vandalised because it was founded by an Israeli Jew (who is no longer involved in the business), and then the incident was belittled in the Guardian. A report into campus anti-Semitism revealed that one in five students would refuse to live with a Jewish peer. An inquiry had to be launched into anti-Semitism in schools. Meanwhile, down in Margate, an art exhibition titled ‘Drawings Against Genocide’ depicts Israelis and Israel Defence Forces soldiers as demons, murderers and baby-eaters. Artist Matthew Collings claims the work is not anti-Semitic, merely ‘anti-Zionist’. Thank goodness he cleared that up!
This is what we’re up against. Anti-Semitism has had a rebrand and, honestly, activists have done a fantastic PR job. Say whatever you like about the Jews and carry out as many petty acts of anti-Semitism as you please – as long as you take care to use today’s euphemisms of ‘anti-Zionism’ or ‘Israel criticism’, you’ll get away with it.
Other Excellent Articles from this Week:
* “1.1 Million Unborn Babies Killed in Abortions in 2025; Telehealth Abortions Skyrocketed” (Katherine Hamilton, Breitbart)
* “Austrian President says: ‘A day will come when ALL women will wear a hijab’” (revolver)
* “Pope Claims That God ‘Rejects’ The Prayers Of Those Who Wage War: History And The Bible Disagree” (Tony Perkins, Harbinger’s Daily)
* “Canada Is One Step Closer To Making Christian Beliefs Illegal To Express” (Ken Ham, Harbinger’s Daily)
* “A Foolish NATO Was a Big Loser in the Iran War” (Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness)
