Sarah Hoyt is…not happy.
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Andrew Sullivan meditates on Orwell and the modern Left.
A review of a new book on how they damage academia and students.
Note that the Marxist/racist Critical Race Theory (and the 1619 Project) are almost the exact opposite of this.
They will never be enough.
When you are a totalitarian, there is no limiting principle. The left
are intrinsically totalitarian.
“I did not serve.”
I didn’t, either. The first year I was eligible for the draft, I had a high number. The draft ended the year after that. If I had been notified of being drafted, I probably would have enlisted in the Air Force (I had been in Civil Air Patrol), though my eyesight would have precluded me from being a pilot. But I agree with his point about how most of the “elites,” including every Democrat president since Carter, were people who avoided service.
…and its censorious “fact checkers” have utterly discredited themselves.
The CCP smiles.
XKCD is great when it sticks to science and tech, not so much when it comes to the First Amendment.
Should it stand?
It was a terrible decision, constitutionally so, as he notes, the question now is: Is it Dred Scott terrible, sufficiently so to overcome stare decisis?
A good essay on the history of presidential space initiatives and why it’s futile to think we can do Apollo again (or should).
Yes, we are in an abusive relationship with our government.
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