Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Entirety of the new website, especially the new magazine archive!
• Charlie: Jeff Blehar’s “The Last Person Whose Opinion on Trump We Need Right Now” 
• MBD: Judson Berger’s magazine piece, “How the West Won Teddy Roosevelt” 
• Dan: Ramesh Ponnuru’s Corner post, “False Choices for the Right” 

Light Items: 

• Rich: The Editors Bingo card!
• Charlie: Finally gets to be home for a while after a month of traveling.
• MBD: Pancake breakfast this morning for his daughter’s birthday. 
• Dan: Looking forward to a Daddy-Daughter weekend.

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Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Andrew McCarthy’s piece, “The GOP’s Midterm Annihilation Comes Down to One Factor” 
• Charlie: Noah Rothman’s Morning Jolt, “Democrats' Cold Peace” 
• Noah: Eva Terry’s magazine piece, “NASA’s Next Mission” 
• MBD: Giancarlo Sopo magazine piece, “Digger Is Not What You Think” 

Light Items: 

• Rich: Baristas often mistake his request for whole milk in his afternoon coffee for oat milk, but he has been able to catch the mistake every time. 
• Charlie: Road trip to Texas!
• Noah: Wistful end to the kids’ soccer season. 
• MBD: Daughter’s birthday is coming up!

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Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Yuval Levin's piece, "Another Repudiation Election"
• Noah: The most recent Editorial, “Repeal the Tariffs" 
• MBD: Andrew Stuttaford’s piece, “What’s Going On in Poland?"
• Dan: National Review's election aftermath coverage, particularly the debate over causes of the loss in The Corner 

Light Items: 

• Rich: Finished Alistair Horne’s compelling book, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954–1962 
• Noah: Despite the losses, enjoyed watching this fascinating election. 
• MBD: It is NHL hockey season, and he has been cheering on the New Jersey Devils.
• Dan: Shouted out his wife's family group chat. 

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Editor's Picks:

• Rich: Daniel Flynn’s piece, “The Enduring Relevance of Ideas Have Consequences”
• Noah: Andrew McCarthy’s piece, “Abdul El-Sayed: The Gerry Adams of the Muslim Brotherhood” 
• MBD: Inez Feltscher Stepman’s piece, “Taking Stock of the Trump Administration’s Victories” 

Light Items:

• Rich: Reestablished his hatred of diet soda.
• Noah: Enjoyed Halloween with his kids!
• Jim: Also Halloween!
• MBD: Loved meeting people at the Buckley Prize Dinner. 

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Light Items: 

• Rich: The William F. Buckley Jr. Prize Dinner went incredibly well, and Lauren Veldhuizen sang the National Anthem before the dinner.
• Charlie: Got to see his colleagues whom he does not get to see more than once a year. 
• Jim: The dinner felt like a family reunion and was a night of great hope for National Review. 
• MBD: Had a wonderful conversation at the dinner about reindustrialization.

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Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Abigail Anthony’s piece about Jason Arday, “The Big Scholarly Lie” 
• Charlie: Judson Berger’s piece, “How the West Won Teddy Roosevelt”
• Noah: Eva Terry’s piece, “Young Men Have Lurched Left Since 2024” 
• Jim: Jeff Blehar’s piece, “Getting to the Bottom of Trump’s Recent Antics” 

Light Items: 

• Rich: Has had zero interest in the World Series this year. 
• Charlie: Went to a Friday Night Lights high school homecoming football game.
• Noah: Spent the weekend in Lancaster, Pennsylvania with his kids.
• Jim: His parents are on the hunt for the best stromboli in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Editor's Picks:

• Rich: Jim Geraghty’s most recent Morning Jolt, “A Simple Question: What Year Was Ilhan Omar Born?” 
• Noah: Jeff Blehar’s piece, “Vivek Ramaswamy Reminds Voters Why They Never Liked Him” 
• Phil: George Weigel’s piece, “The Problem with Abdul El-Sayed’s JFK Analogy” 
• Andrew: John O’Sullivan’s piece, “A New French Revolution” 

Light Items:

• Rich: Celebrated Sid Rosenberg’s induction into the New York State Broadcasters Association Hall of Fame. 
• Noah: Blighted by technology problems.  
• Phil: Purchased a new swim robe. 
• Andrew: Visited Strand Bookstore in NYC.

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Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Noah Rothman’s piece, “Troy Jackson’s Petulant Debate Haunts His Campaign”  
• Charlie: George Weigel’s piece, “Trump’s Strategic Blindness on Russia”  
• Jim: Dan McLaughlin’s piece, “The Starshield Whodunit” 
• MBD: Abigail Anthony’s piece, “Has Woke 2.0 Started?”

Light Items: 

• Rich: Recently became a fan of the Mediterranean restaurant, Maya. 
• Charlie: Watched two incredible Space X launches this week. 
• Jim: Went on an urban hike (aka, a long walk). 
• MBD: Saw the new Spider Man movie (it was terrible).

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Today on The Editors, Rich, Charlie, MBD, and Dan discuss Trump’s ongoing feud with President Zelenskyy, the new White House press secretary's performance, and an update on the Cornell Seven case. 

Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Charlie’s most recent magazine piece, “Your Data Center Life” 
• Charlie: Dan’s piece, “The Shane Gillis Joke Is Undercooked, Not a Capital Crime” 
• MBD: Most recent editorial, “Trump Is Right to Prevent a Livestreamed Execution” 
• Dan: Andrew Stuttaford’s Corner post on American suburbia, “‘Sprawl’ Is Good, Actually”

Light Items: 

• Rich: Increasingly enjoying the fall weather. 
• Charlie: It finally stopped raining and now the weather is nice. 
• MBD: Playing with AI optimization. 
• Dan: Visiting Charleston with his family.

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Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Eva Terry’s piece, “The U.S. Needs Lithium — but Washington Makes It Next to Impossible to Mine” 
• Charlie: Vahaken Mouradian’s piece, “A Walk Through Manhattan’s Unofficial 9/11 Memorials” 
• Jim: Charlie’s Corner post about the recent tragedy on a rollercoaster, “On the Strange and Tragic Accident at Six Flags Over Georgia” 
  • Bonus: Andy McCarthy’s piece, “What to Make of the Trump DOJ’s Investigation of Ilhan Omar” 
• Noah: Andy McCarthy’s piece, “Trump’s Diesel Deal with Putin Is a Gross Abuse of Power” 

Light Items:

• Rich: Rewatched the second Star Trek movie, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and was reminded of how comically bad it was. 
• Charlie: Bought his first pair of cowboy boots for a wedding in Texas.  
• Jim: Couldn’t watch the Jets game because of some quality family time, but enjoyed the win!
• Noah: Enjoying the fall weather and celebrating the end of mowing season. 

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Editor's Picks: 

• Rich: Dan Flynn’s piece, “Christopher Columbus Is Wrongly Reviled — but Not for the Reason You Think”   
• Charlie: Dan Foster’s piece, “Cornell and the Modern Sexual ‘Contract’” 
• Andrew: Noah Rothman’s magazine piece, “The Future of Woke” 

Light Items: 

• Rich: Yankees were knocked out of the playoffs. 
• Charlie: It’s been raining for a week straight. 
• Dan: Watched It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown.
• Andrew: The granddaughter of his uncle came to stay with him for the weekend, and got to share family history.

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