Allison Shrager on HBS Woke Capitalists; A teacher tells horror stories to Wesley Yang; Tyler Cowen on American robustness; Renaud Beauchard on French fragility
Iād take the tallest Pygmy line a little farther still: the USA has not had massive food riots like the rest of the world, or strikes by farmers and other critical industries. So far we have managed to be slightly less insane than much of the rest of the world, if only just.
"the felicitous promises of the greatest illusion of all, the illusion of progress, are now gone, and have left behind a full-blown techno-totalitarian nightmare"
But what if progress is not an illusion, but something that can be promoted by good government?
Per usual, a hysterical conclusion (Beauchard's) is not justified by the decent analysis that precedes it. Worrisome conditions? Of course. All progress is an illusion? Ah, the underlying motivation driving the reasoning
Wesley's horror story includes a most horrible note - despite the horror inflicted by the horrible Democrats (/ Left), the teacher remains a progressive. Not yet so mugged by reality to accept that they've been teaching and enabling the Democratic muggers.
Wesley has a great transcript from an early 2022 podcast:
He notes that he is trying to become a better extemporaneous speaker, and putting his podcasts on his substack.
He also notes a 2007 Ford Foundation attempt to get educators to support free speech and academic freedom - this is huge support for Tanner Greer's objection to J. Haidt's claim that the polarization is mostly driving by smartphones. Greer is far more correct than Haidt, and even more than he claims.
The US colleges, thanks to 60+ years of soft but increasingly hard discrimination against Christians (& pro-life folk and Republicans) are morally corrupted. Their tax exempt status should be forfeit - they should be paying their fair share of taxes.
Iād take the tallest Pygmy line a little farther still: the USA has not had massive food riots like the rest of the world, or strikes by farmers and other critical industries. So far we have managed to be slightly less insane than much of the rest of the world, if only just.
"the felicitous promises of the greatest illusion of all, the illusion of progress, are now gone, and have left behind a full-blown techno-totalitarian nightmare"
But what if progress is not an illusion, but something that can be promoted by good government?
Per usual, a hysterical conclusion (Beauchard's) is not justified by the decent analysis that precedes it. Worrisome conditions? Of course. All progress is an illusion? Ah, the underlying motivation driving the reasoning
Wesley's horror story includes a most horrible note - despite the horror inflicted by the horrible Democrats (/ Left), the teacher remains a progressive. Not yet so mugged by reality to accept that they've been teaching and enabling the Democratic muggers.
Wesley has a great transcript from an early 2022 podcast:
https://wesleyyang.substack.com/p/transcript-the-road-to-year-zero
He notes that he is trying to become a better extemporaneous speaker, and putting his podcasts on his substack.
He also notes a 2007 Ford Foundation attempt to get educators to support free speech and academic freedom - this is huge support for Tanner Greer's objection to J. Haidt's claim that the polarization is mostly driving by smartphones. Greer is far more correct than Haidt, and even more than he claims.
The US colleges, thanks to 60+ years of soft but increasingly hard discrimination against Christians (& pro-life folk and Republicans) are morally corrupted. Their tax exempt status should be forfeit - they should be paying their fair share of taxes.
You forgot to say, "Have a nice day."