Think More: Monday, August 3, 2026
Fauci's pardoned silence, the AMA on youth gender medicine, Ceuta as a weapon, and the racial bargain's collapse.
Lead · The Experts on Trial
Pardoned and Silent, Fauci Offers the Country No Accounting
Jacob Howland | The American Mind
Jacob Howland notes that Anthony Fauci, shielded by a preemptive Biden pardon covering January 2014 through January 2025, refused to answer Senator Rand Paul’s committee on July 29. The diary Paul released records a private February 2020 estimate of Covid mortality near 0.3%, against the 2% to 2.5% Fauci gave publicly. Without culpability acknowledged, Howland argues, trust cannot be restored.
The Experts on Trial
The AMA Doubles Down on Youth Gender Medicine and Sets No Minimum Age
Joseph Figliolia | City Journal
Joseph Figliolia reports that the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates adopted a policy last month reaffirming pediatric medical transition, calling for restored research funding, and placing surgery within the affirming care protocol. The adopted language sets no minimum age for eligibility. Figliolia notes that systematic reviews prompting practice reversals in Britain, Sweden, and Finland went unaddressed.
Sovereignty and the Citizen
Morocco’s March on Ceuta Shows How Migration Becomes a Weapon
John Daniel Davidson | The Federalist
John Daniel Davidson argues that last week’s entry of some 60,000 Moroccans, mostly military-age men, into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta demonstrated how whole populations can be deployed as hybrid warfare. He ties the episode to Morocco’s claims on Ceuta and Melilla, Spanish for more than four centuries, then contends the American version of the tactic originates at home.
French Officials Decline to Name an Islamist Motive After a Paris Stabbing
Fraser Myers reports that three women, one of them pregnant, were left fighting for their lives in a Paris knife attack whose suspect said Allah had ordered him to act. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez urged caution about motive and raised the man’s mental health. The attack followed the 10th anniversary of the Nice massacre, which killed 86.
Two House Committees Demand New Jersey’s Records on 6,600 Noncitizen Registrations
Steven Richards | Just the News
Steven Richards reports that the House Administration and Judiciary Committees have asked New Jersey Secretary of State Dale Caldwell for records on the alleged software errors that placed 6,600 noncitizens on the voter rolls. Governor Mikie Sherrill blamed a glitch and acknowledged that as many as 400 voted. The vendor, IDEMIA, disputes her account.
New Jersey’s noncitizen voter registrations, as reported by Just the News
6,600
Noncitizens placed on the rolls
400
Who cast ballots, per Sherrill
June 2024
When the state flagged the setting
What Comes After the Bargain
The 1960s Racial Bargain Cannot Survive the Country It Made
Helen Andrews argues that the racial settlement struck in the 1960s, designed for a country almost 90% white and sold as temporary, collapses once its beneficiaries approach a voting majority and the promised convergence in outcomes fails to arrive. Her proposed alternative removes race from law entirely, preserving only the 1964 statute barring segregation.
Freedom Discarded the Bad Hierarchies and the Good Ones With Them
Alex Priou argues that a society unwilling to judge how the young spend their time turns out graduates who learn at 22 what they should have known at 16. Teaching Churchill and Strauss to high school students at the University of Austin, he offers liberal education as the counterpoison to mass culture.
