Category Archives: Media Criticism
The Suleimani Strike
Thoughts and links from Instapundit.
We’ve been letting Iran get away with far too much for four decades. And the George W. Bush administration was feckless in that regard as well. I had thought one of the primary purposes of removing Saddam was to pressure Iran, but if that was part of the plan they botched it almost completely.
[Monday-morning update]
A Twitter thread from John Hayward on the pusillanimity of the media, the Obama administration, and the UN.
The Space Force
Its establishment is just the end of the beginning.
Another Anti-Science Cabal
Now it’s Alzheimer’s. It is infuriating, and tragic. In nutrition, in climate, and in medicine in general, the peer-review system is so broken, it would be better to just get rid of it entirely.
[Thursday-morning update]
How Tom Steyer and Michael Bloomberg corrupted climate science.
[Update a while later]
Tuberculosis vaccine found to be effective against Alzheimer’s. It seems, to the degree that it’s effective at all, to be more prophylactic than a cure.
Galaxy Quest
An interesting history of why the best Star Trek movie ever made wasn’t a bigger hit.
[Afternoon update]
Now that I’ve read the whole thing, I’d like to see a director’s cut with the missing Rickman scenes, and get Weaver to dub in the right word.
A Water-Eating Virus
…from Maaaaars.
A truly dumb article, disappointing from Quillette.
Running
Why you shouldn’t be doing it.
This is definitely news I can use. I only run when chasing something, or being chased by something, or trying to catch a plane.
A Matter Of Truth
Thoughts on J. K. Rowling and the new totalitarianism of wokeness from Dr. Dalrymple.