On the most recent Tucker Carlson show, the guest advanced the idea that the main problem of religion in America is that churches don’t have enough government oversight of their finances. Tucker eagerly embraced this idea.

Can the people who keep insisting that Tucker is not liberal explain which branch of conservatism supports more government interference in religion? Not only would we need to throw away the US Constitution to introduce this government oversight over the affairs of churches, we’d open an era of future liberal governments punishing the faithful over the aspects of their religious teachings that contradict progressivist dogma. If you think this is in any way conservative, you must be on drugs.

The reason why government should control church finances, this guest claims, is that churches are corrupt. So our famously non-corrupt government should take over. We’ve truly arrived at the heights of conservative thinking with this kind of reasoning.

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani unveils a “racial equity plan” directing resources toward “black and brown New Yorkers” across city agencies.

Critics argue the policy raises concerns over race-based treatment.pic.twitter.com/qm9XBADjOd

— Brandon Straka #WalkAway (@BrandonStraka) April 6, 2026

I understand black. But I most certainly can’t comprehend what brown has to do with it. Why are African Americans, who absolutely do have a legitimate historical grievance, lumped together with recent arrivals who showed up willingly? They weren’t dragged anywhere in chains. To the contrary, they insisted on coming. Probably went to great lengths to come. Why is anything’s owed to them?

It turns out that Klara’s 65-year-old Christian school teacher is telling the kids utterly ahistorical things about women’s oppression. I knew something was off when I said, “I don’t lift heavy things. Daddy will do it” and Klara responded with a fiery speech about how wrong it is to be lazy. Then she told me that “in olden times women weren’t allowed to work or to vote.” To which I responded pedantically that for most of human history nobody voted and that there’s zero chance there was a single woman in our bloodline who avoided having to work.

Then I heard a story that a classmate of Klara’s responded to this indoctrination by doubting the wisdom of the female suffrage and was sent to the principal.

I will never understand why any of this is necessary in a 4th-grade classroom and why it’s so impossible to find a teacher who simply teaches instead of cultivating resentments.

I was asked in the Q&A what I think about “the last Lily Allen album.”

My friend, I don’t do albums. I very rarely listen to music of my own free will. Auditory or visual are not my thing. I’m only good with words. I listen to novels when I exercise. If I turn on music, I immediately get massively distracted and don’t hear anything.

I understand from the question that this is an important album, so everybody should feel free to discuss.

Why did people stop going to indoor malls? Is it Amazon? Going to the mall and hanging out for hours was half the 80s. It was friggin awesome. pic.twitter.com/9LC6GwMTNK

— Kron (@Kronykal) April 1, 2026

Eighties, schmeighties. We go all the time. It’s so much fun. They are really quaint little stores in there. We walk around, explore, laugh. We have our mall jokes and our mall routines. There are tons of people there, all clearly in the middle of their own mall rituals. There are teenage girls choosing squishies with the grim determination of fighter pilots. Very young couples on their first dates. Tween girls flocking to Claire’s (that curse of every mother of girls) for their BFF bracelets. Young dudes poring over dusty DVD collections. A father of four little kids sells his 3D-printed apple toys at ridiculously low prices. A single mother bustles in her pop-up wrapping kiosk. A black lady does brisk business of selling dessert pickles.

People sit around pouting instead of just going and doing things like tasting the mall lady’s dessert pickles. Yes, they taste something horrid but you make memories to last a lifetime.

We had a preacher on campus today. He had a megaphone and large posters with messages about Jesus. Many students gathered to listen. Some agreed, some didn’t but I was particularly struck by a female student with a sort of a handmade halo on her head with a transgender flag on one stand a Palestinian flag on the other.

Klara is on spring break so she was with me, and this gave me a great opening to explain what freedom of speech is and why speech that upsets people shouldn’t be banned.

The secretary is on her day off, and Klara went all out to prepare cute surprises for her:

This is only part of the exhibit.

I feel so embarrassed over the bullying to which my colleagues subjected the secretary over textbook orders that I’m happy at least my child is friendly towards her.

This hits hard:

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

– Thomas Mann

Have you, people, every tried pine cone jam? The little pine cones are so tasty.

Somebody asked me why I’m learning German if you can use AI or a digital interpreter app to talk “to anybody in any language.”

Here’s the thing, though. I’ve had people stick their phones into my face to try to talk through an interpreter app. When that happened, I immediately lost all interest in talking to them about anything. It’s tiresome, it’s yet another screen, it’s all constantly interrupted because you need to press this or that. The frisson of excitement that wow, I actually managed to have a conversation with an actual German, is gone. With the app, you can possibly get directions while traveling but you aren’t making any friends, let alone improving your intellectual capacity.

I don’t want a hundred superficial, stilted app exchanges in German. I want to become a German speaker. I want to grow a whole part of my personality that thinks, dreams and expresses itself in German. It’s extremely hard but it’s such an amazing adventure. It’s like what we talked about before. I don’t want an app to live my life for me. I like my life. I don’t mind that things get hard. It’s good to overcome. It’s good to confront hardship. And it’s really good to feel that for the first time you are managing to establish a real connection with another person in a new language.

The excuse for the apps is that “you can save so much time.” But to do what? Save time on exercising your brain, forming new neural pathways, having fun… to what end? What would I be doing instead if I weren’t living my life?

Happy Palm Sunday or Easter, and let’s remain human.