The Friday Brief, August 7, 2026
The New Wig and Commies Everywhere!
Inside:
The New Wig
Honorless Men
The Loneliness of the MAGA Boomer
Katie Phang Is A Hero
2026: Bastard Child of 2018 and 2006
AI Escape Artists
Commies Everywhere!
Scenes From Home and Abroad
SO many photos!
The Big Picture
Honorless Men
Honor is out of fashion in this age of decline.
The simple definition—the one that has any meaning in real political practice—is in fact much more difficult.
Honor is doing the right thing when it costs you.
A vote which involves no cost is not true courage, and a statement of concern with no risk involved is not actually a stand; the only test that has ever been important in this field is what a man does when acting rightly has a price attached, when that price is real, and he pays it anyway.
That leads me to John Cornyn and Thom Tillis, who this week had to go through that test with the price fixed at about zero and still folded.
Neither man is running for reelection. Neither needs Donald Trump’s endorsement, his money, his Truth Social benediction, or his forbearance.
