Think More: Monday, April 27, 2026
Four reads on the third assassination attempt, Justice Thomas on the Founding, Klavan on what comes after the End of History, and Treasury's second front on the SPLC.
Assassination Attempt No. 3: First Thoughts
The morning after the Hilton attack, Hinderaker delivers the sober, contextual read that the moment requires – the third attempt in twenty-one months is not a coincidence, and it is not a security failure alone.
From One Assassination Attempt to the Next: Mainstreaming Violence Against a President
Victor Davis Hanson | American Greatness
Hanson lays out the long arc – from “Death to Tyrants” placards outside the Hilton to the trickle-down logic by which celebrities and elected officials normalize the rhetoric that produces would-be assassins, every one of them on the same end of the political spectrum.
No Conspiracy Required
Stephen Green | PJ Media (Vodkapundit)
Green writes the receipts column the day after the Hilton attack: Pritzker calling America “essentially Nazi Germany,” Jeffries demanding “Maximum Warfare Everywhere All The Time,” Talarico’s pastor joking from the pulpit, Kimmel toasting the First Lady as an “expectant widow,” and a YouGov poll finding 25 percent of very liberal Americans now consider political violence justified.
The Race Is on to Set the Narrative About the WHCD Shooting
Jim Geraghty | National Review (The Morning Jolt)
Geraghty on the predictable scramble: there are progressive activists who absolutely need to believe that other progressive activists do not commit acts of political violence, and the first hours after the Hilton attack are a case study in how that need shapes the coverage.
Justice Clarence Thomas Defends the Founding
Thomas in Austin reframes the contemporary fight not as left-versus-right but as Progressive-versus-Founding: “The Constitution is the means of government; it is the Declaration that announces the ends.”
The Age of America
Spencer Klavan | The American Mind
Klavan on Fukuyama’s “End of History” meme and Operation Epic Fury: history did not end, it simply waited, and the Iran campaign now forces the question of what comes next.
More Corporate Power Can Help Solve the Affordability Crisis
Allison Schrager | Manhattan Institute / Bloomberg
A heterodox case from the right that the Spirit and JetBlue collapse vindicates the merger that Biden-era antitrust killed – sometimes more competition lowers prices, and sometimes consolidation does.
Trump’s Prescription Drug Policies Are Making Small-Town Pharmacies Great Again
Head makes the populist-conservative case that the administration’s pharmacy-benefit-manager reforms are reaching the ground, with the small-town pharmacist as the protagonist of the story.
SPLC Indictment Builds Momentum for Bessent’s Treasury to Probe Partisan Nonprofits
Fox News Digital | April 24, 2026
The indictment is one front; Treasury is opening a second – Bessent and acting IRS chief counsel Ken Kies are tightening Form 990 disclosure rules so that 501(c)(3)s like the SPLC, with $129 million in revenue and $800 million in assets, can no longer route donor money through fictitious entities like “Fox Photography” and “Rare Books Warehouse.”
