The writer makes a fair point: Today’s big tech monopolies — like last century’s newspaper monopolies — have merged with political governance in ways that make them part of the same, singular power structure. The main consequence, he argues, will be the emergence of corporate socialism, unless we stop it. The solution is to break up the big tech monopolies.
When the manure hits the air circulator
All sorts of people who would never think of owning a gun suddenly see the light.
Nothing like rioting, looting and police looking the other way to show the importance of the 2nd Amendment.
If you still question why we need 30 round magazines, turn on the news.
Anonymous Berkeley Professor Shreds BLM Injustice Narrative
My sense is that the pro-agency narrative for blacks in America is growing. About time.
Continue reading “Anonymous Berkeley Professor Shreds BLM Injustice Narrative”TheBulwark: Where is the DOJ Civil Rights Division?
Benjamin Parker asks a very legitimate quesiton.
Continue reading “TheBulwark: Where is the DOJ Civil Rights Division?”A Presidency is a Terrible Thing to Waste
National Review editor, Rich Lowry, writing in POLITICO, expresses his pain over DJT. You can feel it in his piece. He has evolved from a never-Trumper to a regular apologist. But now he sees what is happening :
Continue reading “A Presidency is a Terrible Thing to Waste”Potemkin journalism and MacGuffins
For those who tend to malign mainstream media, this piece is reason to give you pause and make you think. Just a little. Maybe.
Oh, the irony
https://theweek.com/cartoons/919478/editorial-cartoon-police-racism-prejudice
Pretty good one by Lukovich.
from Attorney Tim Anderson
State Senator Louise Lucas inciting riot
If our State still has any adherence to the Rule of Law, she should be charged. And probably the Portsmouth Chief of Police as well.
Underpoliced and Overprisoned, revisited
Tabarrok mentions it only briefly in this illuminating essay, but I do not favor “ending the war on drugs.” I understand libertarians’ and economists’ arguments on this topic, but I believe there remain practical reasons for allowing state control of human behavior and choices in certain, narrowly defined circumstances.
Nevertheless, the thesis of the essay — that we spend too little on policing and too much on incarceration — strikes me as profoundly valid. I do favor vastly more police with, in effect, less for them to do.
Humankind: A Hopeful History
Are humans inherently good or inherently bad; inherently communal or inherently individualistic; inherently altruistic or inherently selfish? An anthropologist reviews the evidence in a book review.
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