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We’re in New York City for the Manhattan Institute dinner this Tuesday evening. They’ll be honoring the Washington Free Beacon for “reporting stories that the media establishment chooses to misrepresent or ignore.” They adds: “Over the last year, the Free Beacon’s bold investigative journalism changed the national conversation by exposing the crisis of antisemitism within our elite institutions and the failures of university leaders to uphold standards of meritocracy.” We’ve featured several of those stories on Power Line.

We made our plans for the weekend a while back, before President Trump announced the Madison Square Garden rally that at which he is speaking as I write. At the moment, President Trump is discussing Kamala Harris’s fictitious employment by McDonald’s — a riff that derives from the Free Beacon’s reportage.

If we hadn’t already made our plans, I would have done my best to cover the Madison Square Garden from the inside of the arena. As it is, it has slightly complicated our plans by making it even more difficult to get around Manhattan by car, as Mayor Adams warned it would at his press conference yesterday. It’s quite an event. Trump could have filled the arena several times over.

The Democrats have used the event to reiterate their theme of the moment: Trump is Hitler, don’t you know. Our own Governor Tim Walz has repeated it like a waxworks dummy. The fundamental unreality and indecency are staggering.

We attended the matinee of the musical Stereophonic at the Golden Theater this afternoon. It’s a sort of Long Day’s Journey Into Night rendition of a near facsimile of Fleetwood Mac during the recording of an album that resembles Rumours. The musical runs three hours plus and ends with a wallop. It is playing in a large theater and drew a full house this afternoon. I think we paid more for the tickets to than I have ever paid for a show before. My wife enjoyed it at least as much as I did. I snapped the photo below as the cast took its curtain call following the matinee this afternoon.