According to the most recent report from the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, the US economy added 114,000 jobs (according to the establishment survey) during July. This was a lackluster number that came in below expectations, and it wasn’t enough to prevent a surge in the unemployment rate up to 4.3 percent. Moreover, the “underemployment” rate, the “U-6” unemployment rate, jumped substantially from 7.4 percent to 7.8 percent.

I am a great admirer of your work and thank you for the tremendous job you are doing in raising the level of public discourse and, importantly, combating the cultural Marxist nonsense emanating from academe.

“Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism”
by Rachel Maddow,
Crown, 2023; xxx + 392 pp.

By now most who watch such things are familiar with the opinion issued by the Supreme Court in the case Loper Bright Enterprises et al. v. Raimondo, Secretary of Commerce, et al. on June 28, 2024. Loper overturned an opinion issued by the court in 1984 titled Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc.