There are times when it seems more important to me to read and think than to write, and these past weeks have been one of those times. I do apologize to those of you who come by here regularly, and I promise that these lulls are always temporary. But I hate to send you away empty-handed, so I have three items for you tonight.
Two are recent articles by David Harsanyi at National Review. The first of these is about some remarks by that grimacing dotard Joe Biden on the subject of guns. The second is about the preposterous affectation of “victimhood” by several of Donald Trump’s political foes.
The Harsanyi pieces are short and sharp. The third item is far more discursive, and will be more controversial: a substantial essay by Curtis Yarvin on the possible effect of coronavirus on globalism, in which he explores drastic isolationism as a means of preserving the diversity of culture and the essence of nations and peoples. I would like to return to this third item for discussion, but tonight’s not the night, so for now I’ll just suggest it as something you all might like to read. (I should also mention in passing that the full effect of this outbreak on global supply chains and the world economy is possibly yet to be felt — and that, as I’ve noted before, too-tight “coupling” is well-known to engineers as the most frequent cause of failure for complex systems.)
Back soon.