Category Archives: Social Commentary
Escape From 2020
If it makes you feel any better, next year may be worse.
Perrow writes about how the failure of a complex, highly-coupled system can be catastrophic. I used his book, Normal Accidents, as a source for my book.
Democrats’ Reaction To Trump’s Illness
It’s about as classy as you’d expect. Kudos to Rachel Maddow, though.
Unassailable Ideas
Reviews of a new book about the cultural rot in academia.
The Right To Armed Self Defense
…in the face of abdication of law enforcement: A paper.
A reminder that the purpose of police is not to protect the public, but rather to protect the criminals from the inevitable vigilantism in their absence.
[Monday-morning update]
More thoughts at Captain’s Journal.
The Covid Chaos
California’s Ban On Discrimination By The State
There is a battle to preserve it; donate if you can. California’s insanity too often spreads to the rest of the country.
Ten Major DC Consensus Myths
…that Trump has shattered forever.
California
Why Ben Shapiro is leaving.
[Friday-morning update]
Can California’s green extremism go national?
I hope not.
Refugees From Tyranny
…agree that the authoritarian threat to America comes from the left.