The gerrymandering case before the Supreme Court is one of those things I’ve been meaning to research in depth but haven’t had the time to do yet. My gut feeling has been that gerrymandering is bad, but it’s done by … Continue reading →
You’d think this might be even bigger news than it seems to be so far: Nearly a thousand Islamic State fighters have surrendered to Kurdish forces after the terror group lost its last major city in Iraq, The New York … Continue reading →
A little over a month ago, in the heat of the war against statues, New York’s Mayor de Blasio expressed the thought that perhaps an explanatory note might be helpful in dealing with the dreadful conundrum represented by the offending … Continue reading →
I recently read—or rather, skimmed—a book I got out of the library entitled Love and Trouble, by Claire Dederer. I’d grabbed it from the library shelf without really studying it because I was in a hurry and the title intrigued … Continue reading →
Leah Libresco, who used to write for the statistics site FiveThirtyEight (headed by Nate Silver), describes how the more she studied—in the mathematical, statistical sense—about gun-inflicted deaths and gun control, the more she changed her mind on the subject: Before … Continue reading →
I had somehow missed the fact that an extraordinary law called C-16 passed Canada’s Senate in mid-June of 2017 by overwhelming numbers, sliding the country further down the slippery slope of the tyranny of hate speech laws: Canada’s Senate passed … Continue reading →
…or just routine crazy person?
Continue reading →[Part I can be found here.] One of the strangest mass murderers in history was Charles Whitman, the Texas Tower shooter of 1966. It was a big big story and a profound shock at the time, and those of us … Continue reading →
Iran reportedly may have had a slight change of tactics: Tehran has repeatedly vowed to continue building up what it calls defensive missile capability in defiance of Western criticism, with Washington saying the Islamic Republic’s stance violates its 2015 nuclear … Continue reading →
I don’t have an answer to the question I pose in the title of this post. But I certainly think it’s an interesting question. Lots of other people have dissected the Weinstein flap and I refer you to what they’ve … Continue reading →
Recently someone recommended that I watch a video in which Camille Paglia and Jordan Peterson have a discussion involving—well, the sort of stuff this intense duo likes to discuss. I’m quite familiar with Paglia, but was previously unfamiliar with the … Continue reading →
Yesterday I advanced a theory about the grandiose and psychopathic motives of mass murderer Stephen Paddock. As evidence for my contention that he didn’t much care what open-air crowd he fired into and from which high-rise hotel, I cited the … Continue reading →