Contemplating HR1
I was going to write a big long post on HR1 today, but I can’t bring myself to do it right now. Maybe tomorrow I’ll gird my loins and tackle it – tackle it again, that is, because I’ve written … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Liberty
Elite private school education: at least these parents won’t have to worry that their kids will need to be sent to re-education camp
Instead, their kids are getting their goodthink indoctrination very early in life. Bari Weiss formerly wrote for the NY Times, but she got pushed out for being insuficiently woke, despite remaining a liberal. Here she meets with and reports on … Continue reading →
The pro-Biden pro-life evangelicals: promise them anything
Apparently there is a group of pro-life evangelicals who supported Biden because he – or some spokespeople for him – indicated there would be wiggle room on abortion and the Hyde Amendment if Biden were to be elected. Now they … Continue reading →
Our gracious CDC overlords are being magnanimous…
…and are allowing “fully vaccinated individuals” (that’s me!!) to do the following: Americans who have received the full COVID-19 vaccine can gather with vaccinated grandparents or friends without wearing masks or keeping their distance, according to new CDC guidance announced … Continue reading →
What does the left think would be the danger in leaving Trump’s CPAC speech on YouTube?
They’ve removed it, and they’ve suspended Right Side Broadcasting for publishing it. The left has been banning and canceling people for quite some time, but a more blatant and extreme form of institutional (and corporate) censorship began – as far … Continue reading →
The radical “Equality Act”
The Democrats are now bent on codifying at the federal level the so-called “Equality Act,” which if passed would do the following: This bill would require Americans to consider gender identity and even biological sex a personal choice, not an … Continue reading →
Why didn’t more professors oppose the Gramscian march or at least stick up for free speech?
Commenter “huxley” asks this question: I’m trying to understand how academia slid further and further to the left… I’m interested in Prof. Everybody, the academicians who watched and are still watching as their world was gradually taken over by the … Continue reading →
The left and “misinformation”
This would be funny if it weren’t so ominous: House Democrats are pressing cable and streaming services over their decisions to host channels that the lawmakers accuse of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories that lead to “real world harm.” Reps. … Continue reading →
Viva Frei on those canceled Trump lawyers
I wonder how long YouTube will allow Frei to have a voice there.
Continue reading →Here’s some highly recommended video from Frei and Barnes
These guys are good. Here are their recent discussions on the impeachment “trial” and the rule of law (the entire thing is a two-hour video, but I’ve cued up two rather short segments I think are especially fine): If you … Continue reading →
Orwell, Newspeak, and Sapir-Whorf
Commenter “Philip Sells” asks a good question: Does not Orwell’s concept of Newspeak presuppose something like Sapir-Whorf? And commenter “Frederick” responds this way: Yeah, it did, which lessened the book a bit for me…Reading it now is a little jarring… … Continue reading →
Sharansky on living a double life
Several people have recommended that I read this extraordinarily powerful article by Natan Sharansky on the mental doubling that a person had to do in order to survive in the Soviet Union in which his father lived for most of … Continue reading →