As tyranny seems to be descending on Hong Kong, remembering the bloody Cultural Revolution of 53 years ago.
And Bryan Preston has four questions.
[Update a while later]
The China challenge.
[Friday afternoon update]
“American flags in Hong Kong show that people still fight for our values. We should join them.”
I think he’s right, but there’s too much Trump bashing in here. Trump is not the problem.
[Bumped]
Is he following in the footsteps of George H. W. Bush?
This has always been the problem with Trump: He doesn’t have any firm ideological principles and is first and foremost a populist. This would be an opportunity for him to explain why these things won’t work, but it’s not clear that he even understands that, and instead he is going along with them.
Worse than ever, after thirty-five years.
What reason is there for them to get better? The unions and the left (but I repeat myself) won’t allow real competition.
I used to admire his writing, but he has become the poster child for Trump derangement:
Before yesterday, my primary criticism of the Washington Post’s Max Boot was political in nature. As I wrote in a recent book review, I found it regrettable that Boot’s opposition to the president had not prevented him from “succumbing reactively to Trump’s cult of personality, or from making Trump the origin of every graph onto which he plots himself.” As of yesterday, my primary criticism of the Washington Post’s Max Boot is that he is a narcissistic, dishonest, calculating, manipulative writer who is prone to engaging in precisely the sort of willfully dishonorable conduct that he claims to disdain in others.
Tell us how you really feel, Charlie.
When a former conservative is telling you to vote for Democrats (as George Will did as well in the last cycle), particularly the Democrats currently on display in the primary campaign, you know that he has gone completely around the bend.
I haven’t read it yet, but Bob Zimmerman gives it a favorable review.
Judith Curry, on the latest travesty.
Science is not science without “contrarians.” It is religion.
[Thursday-morning update]
Related: Enlisting peer-reviewed science in the climate crusade.
Why Democrats are continually talking about it, and why it won’t work.
Is it the key to longevity? Some encouraging results, though there’s still a lot to learn.,
“I vote ‘No.’“
I was thinking this the other day, and even tweeted about it, I think. Booker is an asshat on many levels, but I’m pretty sure that voting for a vegan would be more controversial than voting for a gay president. Pretty sure we’ve never had one in the White House. Vegans should go back to Vega.
Will they bring about the end of civilization?