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Big news from SCOTUS this week! If you haven’t already filled up your weekend to celebrate, consider joining us this Sunday, June 26 at 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT, for our latest “No Dumb Questions” with the 
Ricochet and Hillsdale in D.C. teamed up to host a live taping of The Byron York Show featuring Mollie Hemingway. On June 15 at the Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center, they discussed “The 2022 Election: The Status of Election Integrity in America and What the Republicans Should Do if they Win.”
“Meteoric” is thrown about somewhat excessively as a description for rapid success stories. It’s a shame that’s so for two reasons. Firstly, if I had my way, grand words wouldn’t be wasted on even the pretty dang impressive; and second, the successes tend to burnout in pathetic fashion. A full professor at the University of Toronto cannot really be rescued from obscurity, but the ascension of Jordan Peterson shows that superstars can be made faster than ever before. (If former words for greatness are reduced to cliche, it makes one wonder if neologisms are in order.) On top of it, he’s approaching six years of abiding influence in the internet age. I haven’t sorted the attention span inflation rate, but that’s quite a feat. I can’t say what will come of the liberal experiment, but, if it has a real future, we might be discussing the most important figure of this careening chapter of its history.
Byron York and Mollie Hemingway will be recording an episode of The Byron York Show at Hillsdale’s DC campus, 
When I arrived at my brother’s apartment in New York, on my way to the Ricochet Meetup, we exchanged hellos, he asked how I was.”Exhausted,” I said. I hadn’t slept the night before because I rarely get sleep if I have to wake up early for a flight. His response, “Welcome to the club.” He had been kept up the night before by his son, who’s a mere 11 months old. I gather being kept up by his 11-month-old boy is common.
That’s right! It happened, it was lots of fun and we wish you could’ve been there.
I’m not sure if how long it’s been since I’ve seen something as funky as HBO’s miniseries Station 11. I couldn’t really say with confidence that I liked it, and describing it would be an even more challenging endeavor. But the overwhelming critical praise it’s received isn’t something I’ll debate now. At Rotten Tomatoes, the paradoxically titled “Critics Consensus” runs as follows: “Station 11 rewards patient viewers with an insightful and thematically rich assertion that–even in the post-apocalypse–the show must go on.” In this instance, I can live with a product of the Tomatometer.
I really love New York City. I like moving fast through a place where, headphones in, every soundtrack I can think of fits beautifully. It’s strange because the city has an over-abundance of so many things I don’t like. Crowds, cold weather, depersonalization on the street, constant phone usage, expensive… everything. 
In a dreadful sort of way, there’s nothing unusual about 
There aren’t many Presidential farewell addresses of which Americans have much familiarity. One of the few, possibly the most famous of them, may well owe most of its notoriety to some silly little moviemaker incapable of swallowing the hard truth that his favorite commander-in-chief was simply killed by some silly little Communist. Just a few years prior to John Kennedy’s assassination, his predecessor identified two threats, “new in kind or degree,” to a great nation that rose out of the ashes of a great depression and a great war. Your average chatty mediocrity rails against the first — like I said, it was in the pictures! — but the second is a bit more current to the far out future-times of right now.