Monthly Archives: October 2020

Red America: A More Perfect Union

October 27, 2020 – 11:53 pm

The political situation is like nothing I have ever seen in my longish lifetime; as I wrote a little while ago, we are no longer a single community disagreeing about the difficulties of the world we share, but rather two bitterly antagonistic camps inhabiting utterly different realities of belief and perception, with nothing objective in […]

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Service Notice

October 27, 2020 – 4:57 pm

Today I saw my shoulder surgeon, Dr. Laith Jazrawi of Langone Orthopaedics, for my six-week post-op followup. The result was gratifying: everything is fine, with impressive progress toward full range of motion, and I no longer have to wear that bloody sling. I am also cleared to drive again, which is enormously liberating. I’m able […]

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La Différence

October 23, 2020 – 1:27 pm

I’ve just read a pithy and sensible article at Quilette on the subject of psychological and behavioral sex differences. The essay was written by David Geary, a professor of psychology at the University of Missouri, and it disputes the social-sciences orthodoxy that sees all such differences as social constructions, remediable (as if remediation were actually […]

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The Camel’s Nose

October 18, 2020 – 7:36 pm

It is notable that the Biden campaign hasn’t denied the veracity of the material taken from Hunter Biden’s laptop, even though it appears to be damning indeed. To the cynical observer this suggests what we’ve suspected all along: that the senescent and ineradicably tainted Biden is simply a Trojan horse intended to get the most […]

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The American Multiverse

October 18, 2020 – 3:46 pm

What an extraordinary time in American history this is. We are bifurcated, not into opposing political camps as in normal times, but into opposing realities. The developing story of Biden-family corruption is, in one of these dimensions of reality, evidence of disgraceful, comprehensive political and moral malfeasance that should utterly, and obviously, disqualify the Democratic […]

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On The Toxic Appeal Of Wokeness

October 16, 2020 – 6:42 pm

From a sharp new item by Andrew Sullivan: What antiracism brilliantly does is adopt all the instincts of racism and sexism — seeing someone and instantly judging them by the color of their skin, or sex — and drape them with a veil of virtue. Also this: Many moderns want the experience of religion without […]

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The 1619 Project: Fracture At the Times

October 11, 2020 – 7:32 pm

Here is a scorching critique of the New York Times’ calumnious “1619 Project”, from one of its own.

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The Inverted Monarchy

October 10, 2020 – 2:03 pm

My latest, about the modern-day sanctification of democracy as an end in itself, is up at American Greatness. Have a look.

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How This Works

October 6, 2020 – 1:10 pm

From the Perry Bible Fellowship, a timely and essential truth:

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Mending

October 2, 2020 – 3:30 pm

Sorry to have been so neglectful here. I’m recovering normally, but am still supposed to keep use of my right arm to a minimum for another week or two, and am living in a sling. Typing is slow and uncomfortable. Meanwhile the lovely Nina had surgery yesterday to remove a basal-cell carcinoma from the bridge […]

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