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Category Archives: America
RBG
Comments at Steve Sailer: * Ginsburg is so damn overrated. If she was a man with the exact same record he would be known as a CRUSHING BORE. A plodder. * At the time she was nominated, Alan Dershowitz criticised … Continue reading
Saying Goodbye to Australia
Isabella Kwai writes for the New York Times Australia newsletter: It was the slow pace that struck me most when I returned to my hometown, Sydney, three years ago from Washington, D.C. Walking behind strangers, who always seemed to amble … Continue reading
Reaganland: America’s Right Turn 1976-1980
Here are some highlights from this 2020 book by Rick Perlstein: * Ford began gaining—until his campaign was rocked by a gaffe. It turned on the issue of race. Richard Nixon had once been a friend to Martin Luther King … Continue reading
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Here are some highlights from this 2015 book by Rick Perlstein: * THIS BOOK IS ALSO A sort of biography of Ronald Reagan—of Ronald Reagan, rescuer. He had been a sullen little kid from a chaotic, alcoholic home, whose mother’s … Continue reading
Public Neutrality
New Dealer writes on Steve Sailer: I’ve been able to laugh, shrug, or sigh through thousands of Saileresque vignettes, and remain of sound mind. Osterweil on looting and its sweetheart Lewis on abolition of the family nearly broke me. I … Continue reading
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Review: “…when Nixon turned down his admission to Harvard (because his father would not pay the train fare, which happened to my uncle too) he matriculated at Whittier College. There he attempted to join an elite student society, The Franklins. … Continue reading
Wall Street & 2020 Election
Bud: I don’t think the country fully grasps how the labor and not capital are made to pay risk premiums. The fed has inverted the equation. The only people smart enough by and large to understand what the Fed has … Continue reading
WSJ: Elites Yearn for a Restoration Abroad Under Biden
Gerard Baker writes: “Part of the problem the foreign policy establishment has with Mr. Trump is that it’s hard to stomach that a dilettante has been so effective. Whatever you think of the president, his inconsistencies, his curious taste for … Continue reading
Are Our Opponents Demons?
My friend calls the Antifa-BLM block and those who support them “demons.” I disagree. I think these people are just as motivated by doing what is right as I am, they just experience the world differently from me. When Antifa … Continue reading
Bringing Oligarchs To Heel
Josiah Lippincott writes: America needs to bring its current crop of oligarchs to heel. That starts with constraining their ability to commandeer their massive personal fortunes to shape policy. Technically, the 501(c)(3) designation prevents political activities by tax-exempt charities. Those … Continue reading