Welcome back! Here are some highlights from the past week.

I have had two pieces for Newsweek since my last newsletter was released. This week, my weekly column discussed the massive victory in last week's two consolidated affirmative action cases, which held that the deliberate use of race in higher education admissions violates the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. This is a huge win for our colorblind Constitution and for the conservative legal movement, which has worked for decades to achieve precisely this result. Chief Justice John Roberts penned the finest majority opinion of his career, and Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a truly memorable concurrence that fully vindicated his decades of decrying the status quo ante of race-conscious admissions programs. I am particularly proud of my close friend (and former law school teacher) Adam Mortara, who argued the Harvard case at trial, and of the late Will Consovoy, a brilliant conservative lawyer who (along with Mortara and others) envisioned and quarterbacked this tremendous result. Furthermore, I also participated in Newsweek's "Daily Debate" on Monday with an additional piece highlighting the asininity of those who argue that this just-completed Supreme Court term was somehow "not...normal" or otherwise "illegitimate." Read the whole thing, but here's a preview in one data point: The two justices who found themselves in the majority least often this past term were the Court's two most reliable conservatives, Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito.

I have had two podcast episodes since my last newsletter was released. First, NYC City Council Minority Leader (and all-around mensch) Joe Borelli joined to discuss the almost-too-insane-to-be-true news that NYC may ban brick-oven pizza ovens (seriously, what the heck?!), as well as the broader "climate justice" war on human fun and human happiness. (You can listen to this episode on Apple, Spotify, or here). Second, I recorded an episode earlier this week breaking down in detail last week's major conservative victories at the U.S. Supreme Court—namely, in the affirmative action, free speech/LGBT (303 Creative, out of Colorado), and Biden's student loan forgiveness program cases. (Catch that episode on Apple, Spotify, or here).

In terms of other media appearances over the past week: I joined "Jenna Ellis in the Morning" to discuss the disappointing outcome in the Supreme Court's Moore v. Harper redistricting case out of North Carolina, joined "The Jason Rantz Show" on AM 770 KTTH (Seattle) to talk about the demise of affirmative action at SCOTUS, joined "John Bachman Now" on Newsmax to discuss the wild end to the SCOTUS term, joined "The News & Why It Matters" with Sara Gonzales on BlazeTV to discuss the same topic, guest-hosted Jason Rantz's radio show on Friday on AM 770 KTTH (you can catch all three hours of the program here, here, and here), joined "The Rita Panahi Show" on Sky News Australia to talk about the string of conservative victories at SCOTUS (among other topics), and (as always) co-hosted the most recent production of the Edmund Burke Foundation's weekly "NatCon Squad" podcast. I'm also happy to share that a pre-recorded episode of "The Liz Wheeler Show" that I guest-hosted, focusing on the huge affirmative action victory at SCOTUS, was just released this morning.

Our additional highlighted right-leaning Newsweek op-eds from the past week include selections from Paul du Quenoy, John Yoo and Robert Delahunty, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), and Asher Fredman.

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