I’m going to pause…
…for at least a day before I post Part III of my reaction to Hazony’s work “The Challenge of Marxism.” As often happens, the thing just grew and grew and grew.
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The alleged Portland head-kicker caught on video turns himself in
It will be interesting to see what sort of sentence Marquise Lee Love receives, if any: The Black Lives Matter rioter who was caught on-camera kicking a truck driver in the face in a vicious, unprovoked attack last weekend in … Continue reading →
The MSM is very relieved to know that Joe Biden can read
Good enough for government work, anyway. See this, this, this, and this. From that last link: And declaring that Republicans (at least those who don’t bow to Biden) are the forces of darkness being confronted by the light is not … Continue reading →
The challenge of Marxism: Part II
[Part I can be found here. A Part III is also planned.] Yoram Hazony, author of this Quillette essay on “The Challenge of Marxism,” has a great deal to say about liberalism. He writes [emphasis mine]: Enlightenment liberalism is a … Continue reading →
Reading Orwell as a child
I was about eleven or twelve or perhaps thirteen years old when I first read Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. It made an indelible impression on me, probably greater than it would have if I’d waited till at least college age. I’m … Continue reading →
Fear of COVID
Polls indicate that Americans are very poorly informed about COVID facts. That doesn’t surprise me, and I don’t think it should surprise anyone. A lot of people have trouble with complex scientific information, especially if there’s math involved. It doesn’t … Continue reading →
The challenge of Marxism: Part I
Quite a few people have recommended that I read the essay “The Challenge of Marxism” by Yoram Hazony, appearing in Quillette. It’s fascinating and it’s long. I have mixed feelings about it, or at least parts of it. I agree … Continue reading →
Meanwhile, what’s Barron Trump been doing?
Growing, that’s what. He appears to be about 6’5″ or 6’6″ now, at fourteen. This is not a case of regression towards the mean.
Continue reading →Viewership down for this year’s Democratic Convention
Here are the figures. And that’s despite having a semi-captive potential audience of COVID stay-at-homes. The author of the article claims that “this [drop in viewership] could be a giant red flag for Democrats that there is a major enthusiasm … Continue reading →
I was in a garden the other day…
…and here are some of the things I saw:
Continue reading →It was the leaders who allowed the destruction of their own cities
Knowingly. But after all, those same leaders – mayors and city council members – were chosen to check off certain identity boxes, as well as for their leftist ideology. DAs were chosen in an Orwellian manner: for their propensity to … Continue reading →
Hydroxychloroquine begins to claw its way back?
Quietly, quietly: This past week Minnesota became the second state to reject regulations that effectively ban the controversial drug hydroxychloroquine for use by COVID-19 patients. The decision, which comes two weeks after the Ohio Board of Pharmacy reversed an effective … Continue reading →