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- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024Jamie, Jon, Iona, and Claire share their favourite essays from this year.Quillette
- Podcast #264: A Theory of Everyone December 21, 2024Iona Italia talks to cultural evolutionary theorist Michael Muthukrishna, author of ‘A Theory of Everyone,’ about the human dual inheritance—part inherited, part taught—and about how energy availability underpins everything.Quillette
- From Skies to Screens December 20, 2024Our experience of the world is increasingly mediated by digital technology. This is stripping us of our sense that the physical landscape is infused with meaning.Robert Huddleston
- Quillette Editors’ Choice of 2024 December 21, 2024
- Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024Reader mail about poems, memorized.Jay Nordlinger
- Poems by Heart, Cont. December 20, 2024Writers tell of poems they have memorized, would like to memorize, etc.Jay Nordlinger
- A Man of Parts December 19, 2024WFB was big, devouring life, and brightening it.Jay Nordlinger
- Roads of Poetry December 20, 2024
Monthly Archives: February 2021
Saving the Rhinos–or Not
It is seldom remarked, although obviously true, that hostility to free markets (and freedom in general) is the driver of much of the environmental movement. That proposition is not restricted to the environmental project though. It also holds true for … Continue reading
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Senator Mitch McConnell Excoriates Donald Trump
In the aftermath of the Senate vote that acquitted former President Trump in his second impeachment trial, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell gave a speech on the Senate floor in which he explained his vote to acquit. His rationale was … Continue reading
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St. Andrew Gets Caught or Why Did it Take so Long?
Back on January 28, 2021, Letitia James, New York State Attorney General released a blistering report documenting the Cuomo administration’s undercount of nursing home deaths as a result of Covid-19. Recall that Governor Andrew Cuomo issued a directive requiring nursing … Continue reading
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Tagged Andrew Cuomo, BLM, COVID19, Murder Rates, Progressives
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Trump Impeachment Redux
Lead impeachment manager Jamie Raskin (D. MD) led off the proceedings with a video montage that included some footage of Donald Trump’s incendiary speech and the subsequent attack on the capitol by an enraged mob. The video, shown below, is … Continue reading
Myths of Socialism Cont’d
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Ben Sassse
The Nebraska Republican Party is set to censure Senator Ben Sasse. Again. The charge is that he has not, and will not, bend his knee to Donald Trump in the upcoming impeachment trial. Like Liz Cheney, Sasse has stuck to … Continue reading
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John Stossel on the Myths of Socialism
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GameStop: Please Stop the Nonsense
The recent surge in the stock price of GameStop has all the usual suspects commenting on “The Greater Meaning of it All”. As usual, very few of these recently minted experts know what they are talking about. Among the more … Continue reading