Random stuff I find interesting and you may not.
The iconoclastic gestures of the woke left bear an alarming resemblance to the excesses of the French Revolution I spent the first third of my career among conservatives and the next two-thirds among progressives. At first, I thought both parties were equally cynical and instrumental when it came to theories of constitutional authority. The party … Read more
The mistake made by woke theorists of “structural racism” is to confuse two completely different things: the perpetuation of family privilege by inertia, generation after generation — which can occur in the absence of conscious or unconscious racism — and present-day racial discrimination. If today’s “anti-racists” were serious about reducing major disparities among white and … Read more
Norman [Doidge] looked at us sympathetically. “I don’t know how else to tell you this but bluntly,” he said. “There are still many good individuals involved in medicine, but the American medical system is profoundly broken. When you look at the rate of medical error—it’s now the third leading cause of death in the U.S.—the … Read more
In the past eight months, two Capitol Hills have fallen. Two shocking events symbolize the abdication of authority by America’s ruling class, an abdication that has led to what can be described, not without exaggeration, as the slow-motion disintegration of the United States of America in its present form. The first occurred on June 8, … Read more