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Closing time for Gerard’s blog – plus an update on the poetry book
I knew it had to happen, although I’d been delaying it: closing down Gerard Vanderleun’s blog. For one thing, he left instructions to me to leave it up for two years and then to take it down. So it was … Continue reading →
The increasingly colorless world
Here’s part of an essay Christopher Cook wrote yesterday: I occasionally point this out to my wife as we’re driving along. Why have car colors become soooooooo boring? The rest of the essay explores ideas about what the reasons might … Continue reading →
Netanyahu explains
I haven’t actually watched this interview with Netanyahu yet, but I’ve seen it highly recommended by several people, including Scott Johnson at Powerline, who writes: In the interview Netanyahu walks us through all the major decisions that shaped the Iron … Continue reading →
Open thread 4/9/2025
Reflections on the stock market
The stock market partially recovers today, then drops again: The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 320 points after giving up an earlier surge of 1,460, while the Nasdaq composite lost 2.1%. Uncertainty is still high about what President Donald Trump … Continue reading →
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is in the news again [see UPDATE]
I read about it at Althouse: I don’t know if Kristol knows what he’s telling us we need to “be,” but he’s upset that “pursuant to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s order to purge so-called DEI content from military libraries and … Continue reading →
Open thread 4/8/2025
I’m not quite sure what to say about this:
Continue reading →Tariffs: everybody’s scrambling, and the EU makes an offer
Some news: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced that the bloc offered President Donald Trump a deal concerning tariffs on industrial goods. Von der Leyen said at a press conference (emphasis the LI author’s): “These tariffs come first … Continue reading →
Leftists want to murder Trump, according to polls
This news is unsurprising. I noticed the phenomenon among some people I know even in Trump’s first term, and not all of them would even define themselves as leftists. And it’s only gotten worse – plus, as the report describes, … Continue reading →
The “allow trans women” (that is, biological men) movement in women’s sports has reached its apogee as two biological men compete against each other in the finals of a pool tournament
If you believe that all a person has to do to be a woman is to declare oneself a woman, then it follows as day follow night (or is it night follows day?) that you must support the absurdity of … Continue reading →
Open thread 4/7/2025
A personal note: I was a dance extra (“silent bit”) in the movie. I wrote about the experience in this post.
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