Are we them?
The parallels are disturbing.
All posts by Rand Simberg
How We Forgot Pol Pot
Revisiting the killing fields.
If Marxism means enforced equality, its ultimate endpoint is this. Individuals cannot be ‘allowed’ as they might be ‘different’, they might laugh or be happy, unlike others. Beauty – physical, artistic, sexual, spiritual, intellectual – must likewise be ruthlessly extinguished, because it too prevents a Marxist Utopia. Beauty is unfair. It must be eliminated.
Does this matter? Yes, because we live in a time when kids think Marxism is cool again. When self-confessed Marxist Jeremy Corbyn is seen as an amusing old uncle.
In the early 80s, I worked with a man from Cambodia at Rockwell who had managed to escape, just a few years earlier. He was a good guy, smart engineer, but understandably didn’t want to talk about that.
The Fiasco At Stanford Law
An interview with Judge Duncan.
An apology isn’t sufficient. Both the students and the dean should be punished, and in the latter case, the punishment should be firing.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, apparently the inmates are still running the asylum there.
[Update a while later]
The Stanford Review: Fire Tieren Steinbach.
Yes, though the students should be sanctioned somehow also.
[Thursday-morning update]
Thoughts on mob censorship.
[Bumped]
[Update a while later]
Separating the juice from the pulp at Stanford Law.
[Update late morning]
There are no heroes here.
What Happened To SVB?
A comprehensive explanation, and what it potentially means.
Newsom’s corrupt years of lobbying and donations pay off.
Woke Colleges
…are literally driving students crazy.
[Update a few minutes later]
The diversity dean is just a symptom of a much bigger problem at Stanford, and other law schools.
Who Is Running America?
People who weren’t elected.
The Silicon Valley Era
…is coming to an end.
It’s Dead, Jim
The latest on the crazy-train fiasco in California.
The Department Of Homeland Insecurity
It’s two decades old, and it’s past time to abolish it.
I thought it was a terrible idea at the time.
A Life-Extension Breakthrough
…on the regulatory front.
Left unsaid is that there’s an excellent chance that if the therapeutics work for dogs, they’ll work for humans as well. And we won’t have to wait human lifespans to find out.