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“Along Hurricane Dorian’s Tortured Path”
Disaster Journalism High and Low
The New York Times has a human interest story, “Along Hurricane Dorian’s Tortured Path, Millions are United in Fear,” a fine example of quality upper-crust American journalism, against which it is interesting to contrast “’Waffle House Index’ is a real thing during disasters. How does the restaurant . . .
Twitter Suggests...
No political bias here, you think?
The other day I at last forced back my terror and signed up for Twitter. I reckon if I stay quiet, lie low, and wag my tail submissively I won't be "doxxed," humiliated, have my life destroyed; get hunted down, disemboweled and eaten on the hot, asphalt pavement by a pack of mad dog SJWs.
To help me on my way, Twitter kindly offered . . .
Macron and the crisis of the managerial elites
"He had a rendezvous with history and failed to show up"
An essay by Philippe Lemoine on the rise and political demise of French President Emmanuel Macron contains these perceptive remarks on the managerial elites that now run France, and, more or less, the other liberal-democratic states of Europe and North America:
“Macron is a product of the French meritocracy. He went to the . . .
Fox Force Five and the Great 'Women's March' Heist
Antisemitism as career strategy
Leah McSweeney and Jacob Siegel have a splendid investigative report at Tablet magazine - “Is the Women’s March Melting Down?” - on the capture of the “Women’s 
March” by a band of racial go-getters, and the movement’s subsequent and ongoing crackup. Here is an abundance of insights into the pitiless . . .
Posted in: anti-semitismclintonselitesethnicityfeminismidentity politicsliberalismracismslaverytrumpwomen
Foxconn in Wisconsin: arguments for an American industrial policy
The pole dance is concluded. Jeff Bezos has chosen New York City and the Virginia suburbs of Washington DC for Amazon’s new headquarters. State and local governments will fork over more than $2 billion for the favor. Earnest policy folk are a bit shocked. The libertarian magazine "Reason" thinks Amazon would have picked . . .
Kissinger on Trump and 'The Cunning of Reason'
The Financial Times has a diverting weekly feature - "Lunch with the FT" - in which its correspondents interview some notable person over lunch. You get the human to-and-fro of a sometimes revealing conversation between two individuals. You get appreciative comments about the attractive and vivacious maitre d', the bottle of . . .
Posted in: chinadiplomacyglobalismglobalizationhegelhistoricismmarxnation statephilosophical historytrump
“My folks sell me and yo folks buy me”
Kanye West, “Barracoon” and some history of African slavery
Do you recollect the uproar caused by the musician Kanye West a couple of months ago when he said the ancestors of today’s African-Americans “chose” to remain in slavery? Arguments bounced around the word “choice.” What choices did slaves have? What choices do African-Americans have today? One point . . .
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