A long but interesting essay.
Category Archives: History
The “Ecocide” Of Easter ISland
…turns out to be a false myth.
So much for that broken arrow in the degrowthers’ quiver.
The Pro-Hamas Universities
And yes, in their behavior in enabling and not discouraging the pro-Hamas mobs, the universities are objectively pro-Hamas.
[Update a while later]
All eyes should be on Al Jazeera as being founded, funded, and directed by terrorists.
The Trouble WIth (Many) Teachers
Teachers unions (and public-employee unions in general) should be abolished.
Israel And Space
I need to write an essay on the topic by Monday. Comments are open for ideas for me to steal.
Mike Rowe
…gives us something to stand for.
We’ll probably go.
Illegitimate Committee
…to be declared illegitimate. I hope they can get the votes. I’m not sure if this means that Bannon et al are off the hook, legally, if it passes. But it will at least make a statement about the Democrat corruption.
The Fauci Covid Conspiracy
Jim Meigs describes the sordid history:
…our public health officials, abetted by a politicized media, manufactured an airtight consensus on both Covid science and policy. This consensus was largely immune to scientific evidence or concerns about the real-world impacts of draconian policies.
But not everyone joined the lockstep march on Covid. Stanford University’s Jay Bhattacharya, along with two other public health experts, issued the Great Barrington Declaration. It sensibly argued that the social costs of extended lockdowns far exceeded their mostly hypothetical benefits. The Great Barrington argument was derided in the press and secretly censored on social media at the behest of government officials.
And no one has been held accountable, even at the polls. At a minimum, Fauci should be indicted for perjury to Congress, though that’s hardly the worst of his sins. But nothing will happen to him until we get an Attorney General who cares about the law and the Constitution.
We’re All Soviets Now
A disturbing and dismaying perspective from Niall Ferguson.
Another parallel is the modern version of Lysenkoism with nutrition, climate, and covid.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Niall Ferguson is right.
[Bumped]
Antony Blinken
…embodies decades of foreign-policy failure.
Yes.