The Conservative Woman is going to Substack.
Farewell thoughts from Kathy Gyngell.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Cowardly Democrats
Kurt Schlichter has a few words for them, which is almost all of them.
A Tale Of Two Enlightenments
I often wonder if there would have been a Marx if there hadn’t been a Rousseau.
The Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment – the real antidote to Rousseau and Voltaire
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) July 11, 2026
The French Enlightenment and the Anglo-Scottish Enlightenment happened simultaneously, in the same century, reading the same books, arguing about the same questions. They reached completely opposite… https://t.co/RUPK08vPlD pic.twitter.com/kmUCgSQ7rz
[Update a few minutes later]
This was actually the previous part:
Voltaire – the fake antidote to Rousseau
— Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 (@Kristof_Poland) July 10, 2026
He is the most entertaining man of the eighteenth century and the most seductive trap in Western intellectual history. He seems like the cure for Rousseau. He is the other half of the disease.
1. Where Rousseau is emotional, Voltaire is… https://t.co/qvIS8dQkey pic.twitter.com/ObD72Gw96y
Bari
…continues to make (good) waves at CBS News.
One Of History’s Greatest Monsters
Rousseau was at the root of much of the collectivist evil.
— WG MORROW (@WGMorrow) July 9, 2026
The Qualified
Why they don’t run for office.
— WG MORROW (@WGMorrow) July 9, 2026
Ingrates
I know someone will tell me this is AI.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) July 9, 2026
I know.
But it’s a banger. pic.twitter.com/OgAYl8xZRd
Fortunately, Ember isn’t much of a hunter (neutering probably will do that), and his sister Ashe, who is the hunter in the family, generally only brings in butterflies, most of which I manage to save and release. We don’t have mice (AFAIK), but once in a great while she’ll get a bird.
On Platner
No, we didn’t all make mistakes. I sure as hell didn’t. I didn’t on Covid, either, or Biden’s obvious cognitive issues. That’s on them, and we should never trust them again, if we ever did.
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This is reaping the consequences of the politics of unquestioned assumptions.
I like the kicker: “If they were capable of learning lessons from failure, they wouldn’t be Democrats.”
Coding And AI
An interesting X thread of diverse experiences:
This is a certain kind of talk around LLMs that I find increasingly puzzling. That is all of the people bitching that LLMs constantly generate crap code and hallucinate solutions, and are worthless for programming.
— Eric S. Raymond (@esrtweet) July 8, 2026
This has almost never happened to me, and never during the last…
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.
The Value Of Civilization
Yes, space will be viewed as a waste of money until the looters understand its value, and will then try to take control.