Michael A. Lowry

I don't think anyone who's salivating at the prospect of mass political violence or civil war has the foggiest idea of how bad these things are in real life. It's beyond their memory and their imagination.

Political violence is antithetical to the precious, fragile blessing of American democracy. If we do not already understand this from our history, we risk being forced to learn it again from experience.

If you're a person of faith take a hard look at yourself. This isn't what Jesus wants, and we owe it to our country, our community, our families, and our own souls to be better than those that celebrate this kind of disgusting violence.

In January 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt answered the "America First" of his day - and foresaw the "America First" of ours:

"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American eagle in order to feather their own nests."

How did the US become a land of opportunity? In a new paper, we show that the country's pioneering role in mass education was key to its rise in intergenerational mobility from 1850 to 1950.

"America's Rise in Human Capital Mobility"
with Harriet Brookes Gray & Hugo Reichardt

Opinion | Most Trump Supporters Also Back Ukraine Our poll found that 69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin.

"69% of Republican voters say Russia is the aggressor and 83% disapprove of Putin"

www.wsj.com/opinion/most...

Internet access, and expanded liberties for women.

So far, Trump’s art of the deal is to give Russia whatever it wants in advance while asking for nothing from Putin. At the same time, he has tried to extort Ukraine for mineral rights. Once again, he seems not to know or care who America’s allies and enemies are.

“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

Gulf of America is the woke right’s “affirm my pronouns”—except there’s no conceivably generous interpretation of the ask. It’s just pure desire to dominate through arbitrary linguistic fealty displays, like Putin’s “special military operation” instead of “war.”

Nothing is permanent. Change is inevitable, and the will of the people is fickle.

“One’s an exercise in intoxicants, excruciating pain, and endurance; the other is a dental procedure.”

He makes a good argument for consumer benefit. He does not make a good argument for return on investment.

Parents: What are your most memorable moments when your kid did something you had no idea they could do? (Question inspired by such a moment that happened the other day.)

I bet folks in Beijing already have their hands hurt from popping up champagne all the time as America voluntarily barbarizes its own global soft power instruments that particularly made it a superpower and won the Cold War.

Because there’s no social safety net, couples start young so that they can have more children, increasing the chances that they have at least a few surviving offspring to take care of them in their old age.

Clearly society is willing to accept a nonzero number of deaths, just as with auto fatalities or any other cause of death.

The more relevant question though is how to draw the line between compassionate deaths and wrongful deaths.

Good policies can come from bad people. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Bad policies can come from good people. The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Is the ‘patient’ here the LLM?

When the Secretary of Defense transitions from a black 4-star general to a white cable news host, we’ll have ended DEI and brought back the meritocracy.

by Charlie Kirk

Chair Stop-Motion 🪑💨 Made with 444 pictures taken over 10 days

I'm enjoying the novelty of being officially “rebutted” by the Foreign Office, but it remains the case that the Chagos surrender deal is indefensible strategically, diplomatically, legally, morally, and financially, as our new Policy Exchange report argues. policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...

Britain should scrap Chagos Islands deal, former navy chief says The deal to give sovereignty over a vital military base to Mauritius is “irresponsible”, warns Baron West

Coverage in The Times: www.thetimes.com/article/962d...

The New Rasputins Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.

"When conspiracy theories and nonsense cures are widely accepted, the evidence-based concepts of guilt and criminality vanish quickly too."

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Jihad is just an inner struggle, not a holy war.

“That combination of ignorance and certainty is generally a bad condition for democracies, but a disaster when it characterizes whose who govern us.”

If the participants are choosing relative wealth knowing that it is limited to the context of the game, and even at the expense of a lower payout at the end, then that does suggest they are prioritizing the game itself.

It sounds like an artificially supported mini-economy, isolated from the actual economy, except at cash-out.

In the real world people’s choices set prices.

How is that supposed to work? Who are the other participants in these hypothetical economies?

People understand this intuitively. This understanding is captured in the proverb:
“In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.”