A righteous Twitter rant from Phil Metzger:
Follow the thread. He lambastes the Alabama delegation, and how this actually harmed Alabama. He’s right. It’s tragic.
The College Admissions Mess
Bottom line: our admissions process is badly flawed. I blame it partly on the decline in the predominance in academic values coinciding with the bureaucratization of the university. Administrators are crowding out faculty not only numerically but in terms of power. I blame it partly on our academic obsession with evaluating people on the basis of group characteristics, not individual merit. What would Alexis de Tocqueville say visiting 21st century America, learning that students bribe their way into a ticket for economic success by lying about their ability to hit tennis balls? Is that the new American exceptionalism?
Apparently.
[Update a few minutes later]
Yes. The college-admissions scandal should make everyone furious.
Academia has been infuriating me for years. It’s a generational disaster, not just for the kids, but the Republic itself.
Robert Bork
Don’t read the Constitution the way he did. A long but interesting disquisition on the founding documents.
Cave Systems On Mars
Bob Zimmerman thinks that this is very significant to settling the Red Planet.
Curating Comments
Ann Althouse is starting something new.
I don’t generally get enough that this would be a problem for me, and if I did, I don’t think I’d have the time. But it could be an interesting site improvement for her, if she does.
CBD
Is it a miracle cure, or hype?
All I know is that I get a lot of spam in email about it.
EM-1
More reporting on Bridenstine’s announcement from last week, from Ken Chang at the NYT, and from Jonathan Callaghan at Forbes, the latter of which contains several quotes from Your’s Truly.
Maduro And Cuba
He used their doctors to manipulate the population with scarcity of medical supplies.
It’s what socialists always end up doing.
[Via Instapundit, who notes: “This totally won’t happen here if we give the Democrats the power they want.”]
Climate Change
No, The New Republic, it’s not this generation’s Vietnam War.
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]