A new post from Jim The crisis It looks as though the 2020 election is going to be decided by which side puts the other side’s leading candidates in jail, which is not all that democratic and is on trend for the end of democracy very soon. If Trump being impeached or arrested means that… Continue reading The Crisis

Saw this article going viral China’s Millennials The viralness of the article is evidence of the intense interest and approbation by smart Americans of China, as part of the US-China intellectual and cultural connection, as I have written about on numerous occasions. From the article, Chinese and American millennials share many similarities, which goes show… Continue reading The Chinese Millennial Experience is also an American one, and vice-versa

In recent months, some on the pro-Donald right have been complaining about the Drudge Report having an anti-Trump bias and have stopped reading it. I wound’t know, because the last time I visited Drudge was in 2010 or 2009, so I was one step ahead on that, too. The Drudge Report always has a that… Continue reading Drudge Report

In response to Peloci’s impeachment inquiry, Trump on Twitter invoked the possibility of civil war should he be removed from office. Predictably, the liberal media was apoplectic. Which does not make much sense to me because one would think that the far left would support civil war given that the last time there was a… Continue reading Trump and Stock Market Updates

Nihilism is a difficult word to define despite how often the word is used in everyday language. Some equate it with godlessness, or with amorality, or with life lacking a purpose of meaning. Nihlism is often associated with the philosophy of Nietzsche, who characterized nihilism as “emptying the world and especially human existence of meaning,… Continue reading Nihilistic Realism

Upon reading the “about Us” of Unz Review, which is as follows “A Collection of Interesting, Important, and Controversial Perspectives Largely Excluded from the American Mainstream Media,” and other publications of the so-called “alternative media,” one may be under the mistaken impression that the views espoused in these websites and publications are ignored, neglected, suppressed,… Continue reading The “alternative media” is often not that much of an alternative

I have been thinking about the Greta Thunberg story and what it says about why conservatism is ineffectual or even counterproductive. It’s the job of the left to be outraged and offended, and it’s the job of the right to take great pains to show how not racist and sexist it is. But other times,… Continue reading The Greta Thunberg Story

September has been a terrible month for WeWork, whose CEO stepped down, delayed its IPO until the end of 2019, and had its valuation cut by as much as 80% from as high as $50 billion just a month ago, to around $5-10 billion today. Consequently, there has been a plethora of stories about how… Continue reading No, WeWork failing is not a failure of capitalism, nor the end of the post-2009 tech boom

Oh no…it’s happening Speaker Pelosi has called for an impeachment inquiry After every attempt to unseat and defame Trump for the past two years has failed, investigating Trump’s supposed interference with Ukraine aid is the left’s latest angle of attack. The left’s desperation is really showing that they need to invent a scandal to try… Continue reading Impeachment inquiry: Prediction: Nothing will happen

This is a pretty fascinating article How Costly is Chinese IP Theft? It agrees with what I have been thinking for the past year, which is that the conventional media narrative about China is almost certainty wrong or misleading, and that this China stuff is overblown. It’s very hard to measure the extent of theft,… Continue reading The Cost of Chinese IP and Trademark Theft (it’s probably not that much)