Within hours of Mr. Vance’s blunt message to Israel on Thursday, Hezbollah killed four Israeli troops. This guaranteed a retaliation, which Tehran then took as a pretext to postpone talks and threaten the Strait.

Iran orchestrates these escalations to waste time, divide the U.S. and Israel, gain leverage and win immunity for its proxies. While Mr. Trump claims the regime’s new leaders are “far less radicalized,” and Mr. Vance says they want to “turn over a new leaf,” this seems like the same old Iranian regime we know and don’t love.

This will be a multi-post series…I just put up the first post, which is an eclectic list of books about and/or written during the era up to 1860.

https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/77098.html

Just in case any of you are keeping track.

https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2026/06/22/some-real-talk-about-the-iran-deal-n2678042

Great note on honor vs dignity culture, with some empathy from Holly:
https://hollymathnerd.substack.com/p/a-specimen-in-the-internet-wild

I haven’t looked at her math tutorials but her deaf autistic math orientation is often very interesting.

Looks like Starmer resigned, finally. Too bad there isn’t a new election.

Columbia voted for a Law & Order new President—since USAID has been defunded, so it doesn’t support woke folk in elections, 7 new Latin American countries have new conservative law&order leaders.