Useful Idiots: When the Revolution You Cheered Comes for You

History’s most dangerous political bait-and-switch begins when groups with completely incompatible end goals unite around a common enemy. Iran’s Marxists thought they were using the Islamists; the Islamists had other plans. Today, America’s socialists, progressives, and Islamist activists sometimes find themselves marching beneath the same anti-capitalist and anti-Western banners. Iran offers an uncomfortable warning: before helping tear down the old order, you’d better ask what your revolutionary partners intend to build in its place—and whether they’ll still need you when they’re finished.

Educated to Destroy: The Rise of the College-Trained Wrecking Class

For decades, political science was the academic punchline—the major you picked when calculus broke you, engineering filtered you out, and chemistry made you cry. Everyone knew the line: If you can’t do anything else, go poli-sci. Parents nodded approvingly because “college is good for you,” administrators cashed tuition checks, and students emerged four years later fluent in theory, jargon, and grievance—but functionally incapable of building, fixing, or running anything in the real world. What no one admitted at the time was that political science didn’t just produce underemployed graduates; it quietly trained a generation in how to dismantle systems they never understood and could never rebuild.

Corporate executives discover their flight over the rainbow doesn’t sit well with investors

In a sign that top corporate executives are finally grasping that investors aren’t on board with their walk on the woke side, there’s been a measurable drop in the number of references to green and social initiatives on earnings calls over the past few quarters. Unfortunately, this doesn’t mean their forays into social activism have …

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Soccer Pro Refuses to Wear Armband After Noticing What’s on It: ‘I Don’t Feel Comfortable’

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As captain of the Dutch professional soccer team Feyenoord, Orkun Kokcu, 21, had worn an armband in each of the previous five games his team had played in the Eredivisie, Holland’s top soccer division. The armbands help identify the team captains to the referees. But when he saw the “OneLove” rainbow armband he was expected …

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