Glenn Loury on how we’re being swept along by hysteria about racism in America
Recommended, especially the first half hour or so:
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The game of telephone and the difference between “enjoy” and “great”
Last night I was watching a YouTube video by Bret Weinstein and his wife Heather Heying. Weinstein is the guy who defied the Evergreen crowd a while back. He’s on the left but with a strong libertarian streak. One thing … Continue reading →
To make men free
The NY Times and the left (but I repeat myself) would have you believe that America’s founding principle of the most basic kind was slavery, and that all along slavery and racism have been the driving forces behind the US. … Continue reading →
Today is the 11th anniversary of commenter FredHJr’s death
[NOTE: The following is a somewhat revised version of a post that has appeared previously on this blog.] Unbelievable that it’s been eleven years since commenter FredHJr died suddenly and tragically. As time passes, the number of readers here who … Continue reading →
To despair or not to despair?
That is the question – or at least, one of the questions. I know that some of you – maybe most of you – are feeling some despair right now. Maybe a lot of despair. What we’ve been seeing – … Continue reading →
To the left, history is fiction they can rewrite at will
What’s the war on statues about? It’s a case of “venting,” of course, in the emotional sense. But it’s much much more than that. The pulling down and/or defacing of statues is not some emotional spur-of-the-moment impulse, although I suppose … Continue reading →
The sleep of reason: leftist Furies turning on their own, who don’t know what hit them
In September of 2018 I wrote a post that began like this: It’s no accident that the Furies were women: “According to Hesiod’s Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the … Continue reading →
On supremacies and equality: the Reverend Martin Luther King, 1960
From a speech Reverend Martin Luther King delivered at DePauw University in September of 1960: Black supremacy is as dangerous as white supremacy, and God is not interested merely in the freedom of black men and brown men and yellow … Continue reading →
Sidney Powell talks about the framing of Flynn
[Hat tip: commenter “Kate.”] As I wrote yesterday, the Flynn framing was their “insurance policy.”
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We certainly need them. Perhaps there are too many choices for one to have really caught on, because forums like Twitter need to reach a critical mass to work well. Twitter was the first to come up with the format, … Continue reading →
Another abolitionist’s statue bites the dust…
…in Madison, Wisconsin. And no one seems to have the will to stop it: In Madison, statues of Wisconsin’s motto “Forward” and of Col. Hans Christian Heg were dragged away from their spots guarding the statehouse. Heg was an anti-slavery … Continue reading →
Obama and Biden engineered the war against General Flynn
No surprise at all. What is at least somewhat surprising is that a terse note actually has surfaced from our good friend Peter Strzok describing the event, which apparently occurred (also not a surprise) a couple of weeks before Trump’s … Continue reading →