Monthly Archives: August 2019

Poor Reporting

August 31, 2019 – 3:44 pm

We hear all the time — it’s a favorite trope of our current crop of Democratic candidates — that the United States has a shamefully high percentage of people living in poverty. Not so fast, say the authors of a new study. Where these accusations go wrong is that they measure only paychecks, and not […]

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Common Sense On Mass Shootings

August 27, 2019 – 10:45 am

From Richard Epstein. Here. See also his discussion of this essay with John Batchelor, in two parts, here and here.

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The Descent Of Mann

August 25, 2019 – 11:58 am

Our friend and commenter, the indefatigable JK, sent along a link to a story that’s attracting lots of attention today: climate “scientist” and rent-seeking fearmonger Michael Mann has lost his libel suit against the Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball. Dr. Ball had expressed in public his belief that Dr. Mann’s infamous “Hockey Stick” graph — […]

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R’lyeh On The Potomac

August 24, 2019 – 10:08 pm

Back in 2009, Mencius Moldbug, in Part 1 of his seminal Gentle Introduction essay, took up the question of the curious ideological synchronization (he used the heavily freighted word Gleichschaltung) of our universities and other cultural institutions. [W]e can see easily that Harvard is attached to something, because the perspective of Harvard in 2009, while […]

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Fish-Wrap Of Record

August 22, 2019 – 8:37 pm

The New York Times has a spot of bother in the PR department today: its chief political editor is in hot water for blatant anti-Semitism. There isn’t a peep about this at the paper’s website (not surprising, I suppose, given that this is the same rag that bent over backwards to cover up the Holocaust) […]

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Hope Rekindled On Birthright Citizenship

August 22, 2019 – 12:36 pm

President Trump made an encouraging remark yesterday about the possibility of ending the nation’s lunatic policy of granting U.S. citizenship to any child whose mother managed to get her uterus onto American soil, by any means whatever, before giving birth. “We’re looking at that very seriously, birthright citizenship,” the president said. It seems he is […]

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The ‘1619 Project’: Unfit To Print

August 21, 2019 – 8:19 pm

A young man by the name of Joshua Lawson, who is a graduate student at Hillsdale College, has written a vigorous response to the New York Times’s Orwellian project of “reframing” all of American history as a Marxist narrative of racial oppression. The essay is published at The Federalist. Mr. Lawson provides moral and historical […]

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Service Notice

August 20, 2019 – 11:03 am

Problems continue with the site: apparently my hosting service recently migrated the website to a new database, and in doing so corrupted thousands of pages (punctuation symbols have been replaced little strings of gibberish). It appears that the company’s tech support has been outsourced to India (this is what happens when tech companies get too […]

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Crying “Havoc!” At The NYT

August 19, 2019 – 1:34 pm

If any of you had any lingering illusions about the New York Times being any sort of impartial “news” agency, you can put them to rest. In an all-hands staff meeting last week, executive editor Dean Baquet announced in explicit terms that, the paper’s propaganda war against Donald Trump having suffered a defeat in the […]

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Service Notice

August 16, 2019 – 8:07 pm

Still having problems here: all my old posts with block-quotes (thousands of them) now have broken character-encoding for various punctuation marks. I believe this is due to a database migration that Bluehost did recently (though I could be mistaken). They are looking into it.

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Michael Anton On Collaborationist “Conservatives”, The Strategy Of Stress, And The Limits Of Human Nature

August 15, 2019 – 8:27 pm

Michael Anton has published an outstanding essay at Claremont’s American Mind — his best, I think, since his influential “Flight 93 Election” piece back in 2016. The essay begins with a discussion of the mainstream-media narrative surrounding mass shootings, and of the collaboration of the pseudoconservative pundits he calls the “Vichycons” in support of that […]

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Service Notice

August 14, 2019 – 8:06 pm

The site’s having problems: comments are not working. I’m trying to figure out what’s wrong. Update: There seems to be a problem with this WordPress theme. I may have to switch to another one. Update: Fixed. Back soon.

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Be It Ever So Humble…

August 14, 2019 – 11:44 am

…there’s no place like home. The lovely Nina and I are back from our little trip abroad. We visited Slovenia and Croatia with our daughter and her young family, who had driven down from their home in Vienna to meet us, and we had a fine time getting to know these beautiful places a bit […]

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