Monthly Archives: January 2024

My Favorite Songs

That’s the beginning number of my Youtube music playlist.

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My Favorite Movies

* A Man For All Seasons (1966) * Chariots of Fire (1981) * Cinema Paradiso (1988) * A Perfect World (1993) * Legends of the Fall (1994) * Big Fish (2003)

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Decoding Journalism, Decoding Winners From Losers (1-17-24)

01:00 New Yorker: How Ten Middle East Conflicts Are Converging Into One Big War, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/how-ten-middle-east-conflicts-are-converging-into-one-big-war10:00 Democrats Are Preparing For Donald Trump To Be President Again, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-KxZ8gbp2Y17:00 Amy Wax talks with Richard Hanania, https://www.richardhanania.com/p/amy-wax-versus-the-midwit-gynocrats19:00 Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, … Continue reading

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Extremely Online: The Untold Story of Fame, Influence, and Power on the Internet

The world is a big oozing mess, but to create meaning and order in our lives, we develop and sanctify boundaries between the clean and the dirty, the heroic and the cowardly. Here are some excerpts from this 2023 book … Continue reading

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Why Is The Right So Dumb?

Nathan Cofnas writes: The Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) ranks the world’s universities based on objective criteria such as the number of publications they produce in Nature and Science and how many of their alumni have won Nobel Prizes … Continue reading

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