He’s running for president. What does it mean for Trump?
Matt Welch interviewed him. I might vote for him, given that where I vote, my vote for president doesn’t matter.
Category Archives: Education
The Paranoid Style In COVID-19 America
Yes, people are trying to scare us into a depression, and much of this is irrational.
[Update a while later]
Nevada is reopening, ready or not.
Two Different Ways Of Being American
Two different ways of being a human being.
Arguably, AOC’s (and Bernie’s) values are not American.
Video Chats
Why are they so exhausting? I haven’t been doing many, and I don’t see a need for a camera. I was glad last week that Allison had hers, though.
The Economic Wreckage
Bob Zimmerman catalogs it.
Some things will recover quickly, but we won’t have a robust recovery until people have sufficient confidence that they can go back to sporting events or movie theaters or restaurants at normal capacity, which will probably require a vaccine (even if it’s a placebo). And now, despite all the money being pumped into the economy, the Fed has to worry seriously about deflation.
Goodbye, Meritocracy
..Hello…what?
We certainly aren’t well served by the current college-admissions process, but there is also too much pressure to get a subpar (at best) education for the actual purpose of getting a credential.
Lexington And Concord
Two and a quarter centuries ago, it was where the rubber met the road. And it was the cause of the Second Amendment, which never had anything to do with hunting.
The Great Depression
The media continues to peddle BS history about it (unfortunately, because it was what they were taught in government schools).
It was sad to see Emily Compagno the other day on The Five say that FDR was elected to deal with Hoover’s “inaction.” So even conservatives believe this nonsense.
Hoover’s policies were disastrous, but they were the very opposite of inaction, and he was the furthest thing from laissez faire. If Coolidge had had a third term, likely the economy would have recovered within a year. Hoover created the depressions, but FDR made it great.
[Update a few minutes later]
Our garbage media.
[Update a while later]
A review of Amity Schlaes’s new book on how poverty won the war on poverty, including some of the history of the Depression.
[Late-morning update]
In reading that history, I had not known that Walter Reuther had sponsored the Port Huron Statement (I lived sixty miles west, in Flint) at the time. It reminded me of a post I wrote early in my blogging career, almost two decades ago now (where did the years go?) about my brief period as a junior-high campus radical.
How To Get The Economy Back In Gear
No, it’s not going to be easy. Some things will be changed permanently.
[Update at noon]
Six things we’ve learned so far. The sixth is probably the most important. People are going to try to take advantage of this to do what they’ve always wanted to do.