Five Things You Need to Read Today

Here's your weekly update, for subscribers only, drawing your attention to five stories that are worth catching. Today, the main theme is the way in which our culture is substituting Politically Correct didacticism for real enjoyment.

1. Bad Faith

A running theme of the last year has been balancing the good and bad of the Trump administration. Some of the good has been very good, and some of the bad has been very, very bad.

I haven't had taken the time yet to step back and sum it all up, but my Federalist colleague Scott Lincicome recently sent out a series of tweets giving Trump a "report card" on a range of domestic policy issues, and I mostly agree with it.

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