Ezra Klein misapprehends them.
To be fair, Ezra is an equal-opportunity misapprehender.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Cats’ Killer Instinct
We feed ours grain-free food, and play with them quite a bit, with fishing poles and lasers. They go outside, but generally stay in the yard, and neither has gotten a bird in the two years we’ve had them. Also, since they were bottle fed almost from birth (their mother was too sick to nurse them, let alone teach them to hunt), they never learned.
The Neoracists
Thoughts on “anti-racism” from John McWhorter.
Excuse Me?
How is comparing today’s political climate to Nazi Germany anti-Semitic?
[Update a few minutes later]
I don’t know where that first link came from, but I think it’s fixed now.
[Update a while later]
Carano’s firing is just more Calvinball.
And she gets her job back by identifying as an abusive male director.
[Friday-morning update]
The Election
…wasn’t “stolen,” but it was underhandedly tilted.
The High Frontier
The movie trailer has been released.
I personally know almost everyone in that trailer (you can see a young Eric Drexler on the extreme right of the MIT mass-driver team). I’m supposedly in the film (I was interviewed for it).
Deranged Space Barons Like Elon Musk
Jacobin mag wants to regulate him.
ISIS Insurgents
Americans shouldn’t be treated like them, but too many people in positions of influence think they should be. Will there ever be any accountability for Brennan, Comey, Clapper, Powers, Rice, et al?
[Monday-morning update]
Campus Diversity Efforts
You’ll be as shocked as I am to learn that they worsen stereotypes and racial understanding.
[Late-morning update]
More on what “anti-racism” does to schools.
Big-Tech Censorship
How to strike back.