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Category Archives: Social Commentary
College Children
What a societal disaster.
[Monday-morning update]
Are parents robbing children of their adulthood?
Yes. This is one of the things that drove the “keep your ‘child’ on your health insurance until he’s 26.”
Meanwhile, what happens when all of childhood becomes college prep. In this formulation, the kids are being robbed of their childhood. In some sense, both things are happening.
[Bumped]
Beta O’Dork
He’s the candidate for vapid morons.
That seems a little harsh. It’s true of pretty much the entire field, if not the party itself.
Meanwhile, Zogby says Trump will be hard to beat in 2020.
Yup. Can’t beat something with nothing.
[Update a few minutes later]
Beta’s gafftastic day.
The New Zealand Massacre
I see that the media and the Left (but I repeat myself) wasted no time in blaming Trump for it, because his name appeared in the manifesto. But we also see the left eating its own, with the attack on Chelsea Clinton. But maybe they have a point.
[Update a while later]
Radicalization and degeneration:
It seems clear to me that it in no way requires one to endorse Tarrant’s vile crimes to recognize that like splitting the atom, the unwinding of Western civilization is going to release some extreme energies. It already is.
Yes. And more thoughts, from Richard Fernandez, on the tribal score settling that has infected the West.
[Update a while later]
From the last link:
The old devils are on the loose and the problem is what to do now. One option is to deliver even higher doses of political correctness and demographic replacement. But perhaps the absolute worst thing politicians can do is respond by collecting guns, imposing hate speech restrictions, and announcing open borders. In the current atmosphere of distrust toward authority, such actions can destroy the only asset a state faced with ethnic conflict has: the public belief that it is above the fray and won’t sell anyone out. That quantity can itself run out and therein lies the danger.
And that was the gunman’s stated goal in his manifesto: To drain the public of trust in its own government, and set off a civil war.
Max Boot
Giving him the boot.
He does seem to have gone completely nuts.
The Overview Effect
Loren Grush scored an interview with Beth Moses about her recent trip to space.
I’m always amused at people who say that no one will want to do this twice, or that the market is limited. The only real limit to the market is the affordability.
The American Left’s Anti-Semitism
In order to understand it, look to Europe.
[Sunday-morning update]
The American Left’s anti-Semitism is part of Barack Obama’s legacy.
Indeed.
Tucker Carlson
The attacks on him are absurd and hypocritical. You can tell he’s over the target.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Related: Boyden Gray has filed a complaint to the IRS against Media Matters. They should lose their status.
[Update a while later]
It’s time for conservatives to choose: Fight back or surrender.
Space Tourism
Alan Ladwig reminded me this morning of a paper I wrote on the subject almost two decades ago (about a year and a half before I started blogging). It’s interesting to read it now and see how well (or poorly) it holds up. Few policy makers paid much attention to it at the time.
The Left’s War On Science
Denial of sex differences won’t end sexism.
This is of a piece with the Left’s general denial of the existence of human nature.