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A Tale Of Two Enlightenments

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I often wonder if there would have been a Marx if there hadn’t been a Rousseau.

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This was actually the previous part:

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Coding And AI

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An interesting X thread of diverse experiences:

My own experience is that it can be useful in providing first drafts for things like business plans, requirements documents, etc., but I have to edit, and many wouldn’t have the knowledge to do it properly or recognize issues. It can be a multiplier of both good and bad.

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The wages of AI: Professor bans take-home exams after rampant cheating.

What would terrify me about this if I were a student again would be having to go back to handwriting papers and essays. If I didn’t have a keyboard, I’d have hardly written anything in my life.

Economics, Education, History, Media Criticism, Political Commentary, Social Commentary, War Commentary

Trump’s Anti-Communist Manifesto

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It was nice to see a president finally stand up to them.

“…the record is pretty suggestive for Mamdani and Avila Chevalier. But it’s not that way for the other DSA candidates who won recently — Claire Valdez, Melat Kiros, Janeese Lewis-George, and others. On the other hand, all of them are members of the Democratic Socialists of America, and the word “socialist” has always been a key part of the vocabulary of communism, in the 20th century and today. So one could say that Trump’s accusation is reasonably true for some of the DSA comrades who have defeated Democratic candidates and at least adjacent to the beliefs of some others. In other words, it’s close enough for a political campaign.”

Most people forget, or never knew, what the second “S” in USSR stood for.

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Yes. Socialists should be disqualified for public office for simply being socialists.

I noted on X right after Chevalier’s election that it was hard to see how she could honestly take the oath of office.

And as someone (von Mises? Hayek?) once noted, if socialists understood economics, they wouldn’t be socialists.

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Happy Semiquincentennial

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First, a message from a Canadian:

I saw festivities in both Tokyo and Paris. For example, this from President Macron, featuring the French gift from the 19th century:

Given recent polling, it appears that the Japanese and French are more patriotic about America than the Democrats are.

And Commie Mamdani doesn’t understand what makes America exceptional:

In fact, what is exceptional is there are some things that are fixed in place, including the limits to government in the Constitution, a document that he has apparently never read, or perhaps has, and (like Obama and other Marxists) hates. Coolidge, who on the occasion, was fortunately not “silent,” said it best a century ago.

About the Declaration there is a finality that is exceedingly restful. It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable [sic] rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers.

I think that last night’s speech by Trump on the danger of communism and collectivism was one of his best. I don’t know how he’ll top it today.

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The College “Educated”

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They’re not educated; they’re credentialed and propagandized, and they’re the problem.

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Stop “fighting anti-Semitism,” and recommit to American history.