Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
How should professional sports teams pay to build their stadiums? Definitely not with public funding. The use of taxpayer dollars to build professional stadiums is generally a terrible deal for communities since these stadiums won’t pay for themselves. Plus, in the case of top-tier professional sports teams, they’re owned by billionaires in leagues that generate … Read more
In a roundtable organized for Tablet by David Samuels, Angelo Codevilla said, The current American elites hold every lever of power. But their power is brittle. They no longer try to persuade. They command and find ways of hurting and mocking the reticent. No organization that lives by pulling rank can be considered strong. I … Read more
Only 1 in 8 adults in the United States was teleworking this past summer. At the peak of the pandemic, it only got as high as 1 in 3. If this shocks you, you may be in the bubble bubble. Follow the elite media, and you’ll believe that the story of 2020 and 2021 was … Read more
Over-the-counter hearing aids may soon be hitting the shelves of community pharmacies nationwide. We are a pharmacist and audiologist who study the potential ways OTC hearing aids could be distributed and managed. In a market dominated by only a handful of manufacturers, hearing aids that are available without a prescription will be more accessible to … Read more
Congress cannot do the work of a real Congress, for a variety of reasons, none of which is remediable. . . . I read The Federalist, and I find the experience of reading to be profoundly saddening, as if I were returning to a city I once loved, that was once full of the human … Read more
Secretary of State Antony Blinken was even more emphatic: “We are not withdrawing. We are staying. The embassy is staying. Our programs are staying.” (I know the Blinken type. When one of these bloodless, dead-eyed Ivy League lawyers says he isn’t going to screw you, you’re already screwed. Blaming them for it is like blaming … Read more
A poll released Monday found that half of “openly Jewish” college students have at times attempted to conceal their religious identity on campus, and that they are more likely to do so the longer they’re enrolled. The study — conducted by the Cohen Research Group with the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under … Read more
“The presumption is that a spouse’s independent professional activities don’t necessarily require a judge to recuse unless a spouse has a substantial interest in the outcome of the proceeding,” says Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch. “Washington, D.C. is a small town, and the resulting interlocking relationships result in all sorts of apparent conflicts of … Read more
Bryan Caplan raises the question. From the standpoint of the textbook Median Voter Model, this is awfully puzzling. Even if urbanites are extremely left-wing, you would expect urban Republicans to move sharply left to accommodate them. Once they do so, the standard prediction is that Republicans will win half the time. But plainly they don’t. … Read more
The presidency has always been inclined to unilateral power—and many Americans like it that way. President Joe Biden’s national vaccine mandate sparked a lot of debate and set political seismometers jumping even more frantically than usual. Most commentary has focused on two issues: Is forcing people to take vaccines a good idea, and will the … Read more
Some may see today’s “we will not comply” movement as a modern trend, but civil disobedience has a rich history in America. In response to the COVID-19 lockdowns and mandates, the phrase “we will not comply” and sentiments of civil disobedience have become increasingly popular. Parents at school board meetings have been chanting the famous … Read more
Disturbing as it was to hear Milo Yiannopoulos describe then-president Trump as “Daddy” a few years ago, it’s even more alarming to hear much more mainstream media figures referring to Joe Biden as our new national dad. Thinking of the president as America’s sole controlling authority, in whom all power and decision-making rest, is a … Read more
Not long ago, progressives would have recoiled in horror from the prospect of a political culture in which the limits of public discourse are policed by profit-seeking corporations deploying their capital toward narrowly partisan and ideological ends. But nothing makes a so-called liberal more comfortable with power than achieving a little bit of it. That … Read more
Magazines such as Rolling Stone, the major newspapers, the academic establishment, and the professional-activist class are not staffed in the main by people who grew up on Indian reservations or in dysfunctional mountain villages, people who dropped out of high school, people who have been incarcerated, or other people from the margins. You may find … Read more
Families looking for alternatives to battlefields of the culture war have a bonanza of educational options. It’s too early to know whether the pandemic-fueled surge in homeschooling will continue in the coming year, but the early indicators are that do-it-yourself education is here to stay as a popular choice for families from all sorts of … Read more
Corporate Welfare: Where’s the Outrage? – A Personal Exploration by Johan Norberg – Full Video Other People’s Money See “Corporate Welfare: A Documentary” Let student money follow the student. Educational choice! And stop eating sugar and sugared foods – break the addiction. Related PostsWhy Americans Adore Conspiracy Theories The Odious and Abusive Practice … Read more
President Biden is wrong: The Supreme Court lacks the “supreme authority to ensure justice could be fairly sought.” . . . On Wednesday, the Supreme Court declined to intervene in a challenge to S.B. 8, Texas’s new abortion law. This unique statute empowers private citizens to sue those who perform or facilitate abortions. President Biden … Read more
The sin and sorrow of despotism is not that it does not love men, but that it loves them too much and trusts them too little. G.K. Chesterton, “Robert Browning” Related PostsDeceit and Demagoguery in Montgomery County, Maryland Brandon Johnson’s Chicago Is a Preview of Zohran Mamdani’s New York George Santos is the ‘Jew-ish’ Rachel … Read more
We are at war. And no, I am not referring to Afghanistan. There is a fight much closer to home and the enemy does not wear, for the moment, burqa nor turban. This enemy has an official car and is determined to raise your taxes and destroy your culture. Wait and see. This week we … Read more