Think More: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
New Jersey's noncitizen voter rolls, a Yorktown family against Albany's sanctuary law, Mamdani's scapegoats, and the DSA on power without papers.
Lead · What Citizenship Still Means
House Republicans Go After the Vendor Behind New Jersey’s 6,600 Noncitizen Registrations
Steven Richards | Just the News
The House Administration and Judiciary Committees have asked IDEMIA North America, the vendor running New Jersey’s motor vehicle registration software, for every document touching the errors that put 6,600 noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls. A companion letter asks Justice Department civil rights chief Harmeet Dhillon to investigate. Governor Mikie Sherrill blames a glitch and concedes at least 400 of them voted.
What Citizenship Still Means
A Grieving Yorktown Family Asks Hochul Why New York Just Restricted ICE Cooperation
The New York Post presses Governor Kathy Hochul over the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, which bars local police from 287(g) agreements with ICE. Tom and Jessica Gorman, whose daughter Sheridan was shot in Chicago in March, want it repealed. Hochul’s office says the law would not have changed her case.
New Jersey’s noncitizen voter registrations, per state figures the vendor disputes
6,600
Noncitizens put on the rolls
400+
Of them who cast ballots
June 2024
When the MVC flagged the setting
Red, Green, and in Office
Jacob Howland Reads Mamdani’s Pied-a-Terre Rollout as a Struggle Session
Jacob Howland | The American Mind
Writing in The American Mind, Jacob Howland argues Mayor Zohran Mamdani governs by manufacturing scapegoats. The city published the names and addresses of more than 960,000 property owners potentially subject to its pied-a-terre tax, a list that swept in rowhouses and primary residences. Howland compares the practice to Maoist name-and-shame campaigns.
An Undercover Tape Catches a DSA Assemblywoman on the Uses of Illegal Immigrants
Stephen Green flags undercover footage from a New York DSA meeting in which Assemblywoman Diana Moreno, who holds Mamdani’s old seat, describes ways illegal immigrants can work behind the scenes. Her line: “You don’t have to have papers to have power.” Matt Miller of PolitiBrawl recorded the meeting.
Credentials Without Learning
John McWhorter on Why Cambridge Made Jason Arday a Professor
John H. McWhorter | City Journal
Jason Arday resigned from Cambridge this month after his scholarship was found to be plagiarized and pieces of his biography fabricated. Writing in City Journal, John McWhorter argues that the elevation was itself the scandal: white academics suspending judgment about a black scholar and calling it virtue.
A New Book Casts Campus Politics as a Religion With Heretics and Apostates
Christianity Today reviews Neil Gross’s What Happened to College?, which borrows the vocabulary of religious conformity to explain campus politics. Students who fear being branded heretics stay quiet and parrot what they think professors want. Gross urges faculty to notice how thoroughly their readings presume a progressive frame.
No Notice, No Appeal
Glenn Reynolds Makes the Case That Brennan Invented the Actual Malice Standard
Glenn Reynolds | Law & Liberty
Reviewing Carson Holloway’s No Liberty to Libel for Law & Liberty, Glenn Reynolds recounts how Justice William Brennan wrote a rule no party had argued, knowing the Times would lose under negligence. Reynolds doubts the Roberts Court will overturn Sullivan, and suggests a return to the narrower public-official standard instead.
The FTC Starts Asking Why Payment Processors Cut Off Conservative Customers
Lyceum’s editors trace the deplatforming pattern from Stripe and Shopify dropping the Trump campaign in January 2021 to PayPal closing the accounts of Covid-policy dissenters. FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson sent warning letters in March to PayPal, Stripe, and major card networks. Customers rarely got notice, and almost never an appeal.
