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 continuing war on facts and reason.

1. Making Fake News Great Again

I just sent you an article on reason versus emotion in the gun control debate. (I would also recommend that you re-read my piece on the same theme from after the Newtown shooting about six years ago.) After posting that, I found the emotionalist mentality's perfect expression, courtesy of Parkland student David Hogg, by way of his leftist institutional sponsor, Move On: "We don't need ideas, we need action." So let's act with no idea what we're doing!

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