With the midterms over and the results underwhelming for the ‘right’, the news cycle is kinda slow as of late. Unfortunately, 2019 and 2020 can be written off. Due to the divided Congress, the obstinate courts, and Trump’s reelection bid, there won’t be any time…
Blame Modern Life for Political Strife Although the culture wars seem especially contentious now, Americans have a long tradition of waging culture war: Trump in office may have fanned the flames to some degree, but the seeds were planted well in advance–things like campus protests,…
From The Atlantic, this article is going viral: Why Are Young People Having So Little Sex? I dunno if it’s just me, but I’m tired of these ‘concern pieces’ by the NYTs, The Atlantic, Vox, and The New Yorker. “Young people are not doing enough…
The Mad Rush to College is Killing Our Children’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Entrepreneurship, of course, requires time devoted to imagining and dreaming—time today’s students simply don’t have. Many spend every minute trying to build a résumé that will usher them into the best colleges. In The…
From Wiki, The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a worldwide study by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) in member and non-member nations intended to evaluate educational systems by measuring 15-year-old school pupils’ scholastic performance on mathematics, science, and reading. It…
Anti-HBD liberal Nassim Taleb endorses ‘reverse-Darwinism’ (survival of the un-fittest): A society is as advanced as its treatment of its weak, its handicapped and incapacitated. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) November 2, 2018 From Nature Beats Nurture: This is true. The left twists science so…
A couple days ago Scott Adams gave a Periscope congratulating the Democrats for their midterm House win, and praising America’s democratic-republic system. He also gives some ideas regarding healthcare and ‘the wall’. He also says people tend to overestimate the size and severity of problems….
Fred Reed and Vox Day predict “America will lose“: The USA has to give up its empire and its Israel First foreign policy or it is going to be militarily defeated within the next 15 years. In fact, it is now possible that the breakup…
With Republicans maintaining a slim lead in the Senate and Democrats taking a small lead in the house, gridlock will prevail. All this anticipation, polling, and build-up, in retrospect, for nothing. This is why I did not even blog about the midterms until now, because…
This article went viral, getting tons of up-votes: Improving Ourselves to Death: What the self-help gurus and their critics reveal about our times. These passages stood out: In our current era of non-stop technological innovation, fuzzy wishful thinking has yielded to the hard doctrine of…