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==The Left==
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==Introduction==
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*[https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-meet-the-sanitized-sleuths-known-as-the-hardy-boys-11615590355?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter]
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*[ https://www.takimag.com/article/putins-best-laid-plans/ /putins-best-laid-plans] by Steve Aailer (2022).
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*[https://twitter.com/AOHSUsometimesY/status/1454195267364958220 Do you know what your eight great-grandparents did for a living? Does anyone?] Twitter.
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*[https://worksthatwork.com/3/kongo-gumi "Building on Tradition — 1,400 Years of a Family Business"] by Irene Herrera "Before its liquidation, Kongō Gumi was the oldest continuously operating company in the world. Founded in Japan a mere century after the fall of the Roman Empire, it survived extreme changes in Japan’s culture, government and economy, preserving traditional construction techniques and family values for over 1,400 years."
  
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*[https://lawliberty.org/forum/we-will-burn-and-loot-and-destroy-the-weather-underground-and-its-legacy/ “We Will Burn and Loot and Destroy”: The Weather Underground and Its Legacy,]
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*[https://edition.thrillist.com/s/overrated-underrated-beef-36319cc36dbe4753 "The Most Overrated and Underrated Cuts of Beef, According to Chefs,"] Dan Gentile (November 9, 2021).
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Jay Nordlinger, ''Law and Liberty'' (2021).
 
  
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*[[Mark Steyn Articles]]
  
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*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/ "Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene:
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*[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html?s=03  "Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?"] ''NY Times,'' May 7, 2021.
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Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change."] Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic'' (2021).  
 
  
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*[https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrowski/the-conspiracies-of-valery-salov-part-2 Valery Salov], one of the world's best chess players, thinks Hitler was part of a conspiracy to set up the nation of Israel,  that Jewish identity is a myth, and that the Kabbalah  explains a lot. Bobby Fischer too.  
  
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*[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/ "They Had It Coming: The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs."], Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic''  (2019).
 
  
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==Mark Steyn==
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{{Quotation| Here surely is an almost too perfect snapshot of a culture that simultaneously destroys childhood and infantilizes adulthood. The "child" in this vignette ought to be the ten-year-old boy, "hands up against the wall," but, instead, the "man" appropriates the child role for himself: Why, the graduate assistant is so "distraught" that he has to leave and telephone his father. He is pushing thirty, an age when previous generations would have had little boys of their own. But today, confronted by a grade-schooler being sodomized before his eyes, the poor distraught child-man approaching early middle-age seeks out some fatherly advice, like one of Fred MacMurray's "My Three Sons" might have done had he seen the boy next door swiping a can of soda pop from the lunch counter.
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==Economics==
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*[http://sims.princeton.edu/yftp/AngristPischkeJEP/AngristPischkeComment.pdf "COMMENT ON ANGRIST AND PISCHKE,"] CHRISTOPHER A. SIMS (2010). On econometrics, with special attention to macro and instrumental variables.
  
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The graduate assistant pushing thirty, Mike McQueary, is now pushing forty, and is sufficiently grown-up to realize that the portrait of him that emerges from the indictment is not to his credit and to attempt, privately, to modify it. "No one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds," he emailed a friend a few days ago. "Trust me."
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*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3906201  "Discharging the Discharge for Value Defense,"] Eric Talley on Revlon Clauses in bank documents (2021).  
  
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"Trust me"? Maybe the ten-year-old boy did. And then watched Mr. McQueary leave the building. Perhaps the child-man should try "imagining" the ten-year-old's thoughts or being in his shoes.
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*[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/business/scholastic-iole-lucchese-succession-battle.html?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&subid1=TAFI&ad_id=B4ZRZ16I0DU6&adgroup_id=krkmk&campaign_id=gm8gj&twclid=11466436699664306188 "Inside the Real-Life Succession Battle at Scholastic: The powerhouse children’s publisher, known for Harry Potter, had been passed from father to son until Iole Lucchese, a top executive, was given control."] NYTimes (2021).  
  
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*[https://www.steynonline.com/11000/penn-state-institutional-wickedness "Penn State's Institutional Wickedness,"] (2021).
 
  
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==The Left==
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A society that no longer understands that distinction is in deep trouble. To argue that a man witnessing child sex in progress has no responsibility other than to comply with procedures and report it to a colleague further up the chain of command represents a near-suicidal loss of that distinction.
 
  
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A land of hyperlegalisms is not the same as a land of law. When people get used to complying with microregulations and "procedures", it's but a small step to confusing "compliance with procedures" with the right thing to do – and then arguing that, in the absence of regulatory guidelines, there is no "right thing to do."
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*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/9/the-old-south-shall-rise-again "The Old South Shall Rise Again,] Victor Hanson, The New Criterion (2022). How Silicon Valley and the Antebellum South have many social parallels-- race obsession, poor infrastructure, great wealth, one-party rule, etc.
  
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In a hyperlegalistic culture, Penn State's collaborators may have the law on their side. But there is no moral liability waiver.}}
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*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/9/facing-the-music "Facing the music: On the decline of the WASP establishment,] by Wallace S. Moyle, The New Criterion, 2022.
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"The asphyxiating embrace of ideological conformity was famously captured by Nikolai Krylenko, the People’s Commissar for Justice, in a speech to the Soviet Congress of Chess Players in 1932, at which he attacked the very concept of “the neutrality of chess.” It was necessary for chess to be Sovietized like everything else. “We must organize shock brigades of chess players, and begin immediate realization of a Five-Year Plan for chess,” he declared.  ...
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*[https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1393914129547612160 "Tensions Rise In Middle East As One Side Wants To Kill Jews And The Other Side Are Jews Who Don't Want To Die And Neither Will Compromise"]
  
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Look, I’m an effete foreigner who likes show tunes. My Broadway book was on a list of “Twelve Books Every Gay Man Should Read.” Andrew Sullivan said my beard was hot. Leonard Bernstein stuck his tongue in my mouth (long story). But I’m not interested in living in a world where we have to tiptoe around on ever thinner eggshells. If it’s a choice between having celebrity chefs who admit to having used the N-word in 1977 (or 1965, or 1948, or whenever the hell it was) and reality-show duck-hunters who quote Corinthians and Alec Baldwin bawling out some worthless paparazzo who’s doorstepping his family with a “homophobic” slur, or having all of them banished from public life and thousands upon millions more too cowed and craven to speak lest the same fate befall them, I’ll take the former any day.
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*[https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2021/12/in-memory-of-my-late-brother-christopher-who-died-ten-years-ago-.html Peter Hitchens' memorial article on his brother, Christopher].  
  
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Six years later, the political winds having shifted, Krylenko was executed as an enemy of the people. But his spirit lives on among the Commissars of Gay Compliance at GLAAD. ...
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*[https://babylonbee.com/news/people-have-been-thinking-all-white-men-are-terrible-but-it-turns-out-its-just-steve Horrible Steve], Babylon Bee (2021).  
  
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*[https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-media-lied-repeatedly-about-officer "The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick's Death. And They Just Got Caught,"]  Greenwald, on  the ''New York Times'''s bald lies about Officer Sicknick's death at the US Capitol (2021).
  
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Be nice to him. Or else."
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*[https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-meet-the-sanitized-sleuths-known-as-the-hardy-boys-11615590355?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter  "Dr. Seuss, Meet the Sanitized Sleuths Known as the Hardy Boys; The detective novels got a rewrite in 1959. Was it a needed scrubbing or a sign of cancel culture?,"] WSJ.
  
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[https://www.nationalreview.com/2013/12/age-intolerance-mark-steyn/ "The Age of Intolerance
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*[https://lawliberty.org/forum/we-will-burn-and-loot-and-destroy-the-weather-underground-and-its-legacy/ “We Will Burn and Loot and Destroy”: The Weather Underground and Its Legacy,] Jay Nordlinger, ''Law and Liberty'' (2021). The first part is informative, but towards the end he makes the ridiculous claim that the Right supported violence like the Left did in 2020, and that we all underestimate how much violence is on our side. No we don't. The media is Left, and biases us all towards underestimating Left violence and towards imagining Right violence. Nordlinger is Establishment, and so he doesn't like Trump and wants to smear him. Still, the first 4/5 of the article is good.
  
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The forces of “tolerance” are intolerant of anything less than full-blown celebratory approval."] 
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*https://quillette.com/2021/03/12/the-threat-to-academic-freedom-from-anecdotes-to-data/
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December 20, 2013, National Review.   
 
  
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The response was:
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*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/ "Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene: Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality— and then pretend to be engines of social change."] Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic'' (2021).
  
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{{Quotation| On the other hand, I can’t agree with Mark that anything of value is lost when derogatory epithets go out of bounds in polite society. They tend to be bad even for humor, substituting stereotype and cliché for originality. People who used them in different times need not be regarded as monstrous, nor must the canon be censored; we could instead feel good about having awoken to a greater civility and make generous allowances for human fallibility.
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* [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/charlie-browns-interior-christmas-adventure/617484/ Carlie-browns-interior-christmas-adventure] Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic'' (2020).
  
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By way of criticizing speech, I’ll say that I found the derogatory language in this column, and especially the slur in its borrowed concluding joke, both puerile in its own right and disappointing coming from a writer of such talent.
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*[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/ "They Had It Coming: The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs."], Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic''  (2019).
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[https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/steyn-speech-jason-lee-steorts/ "Steyn on Speech,"
 
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==The Right==
 
==The Right==
 
*[https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/  Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell"] Scott Alexander (2013).  
 
*[https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/  Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell"] Scott Alexander (2013).  
  
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*[https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/activist-milo-yiannopoulos-is-now-ex-gay-consecrating-his-life-to-st-joseph "Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. JosephActivist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph,"] (2021),  
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*[https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/activist-milo-yiannopoulos-is-now-ex-gay-consecrating-his-life-to-st-joseph "Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. JosephActivist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph,"] (2021),
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*[https://cspicenter.org/blog/waronscience/will-zemmour-bring-a-right-wing-revolution-in-france/  "will-zemmour-bring-a-right-wing-revolution-in-france/"] (2021)
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==Culture==
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*[https://americanreformer.org/2022/11/the-managerial-revolution-in-middle-earth/ "the managerial revolution in middle earth,"] Josh AbbotoyNovember 10, 2022. American Reformer.
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=Miscellaneous==
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*[https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463 Personality disorders]," Mayo Clinic description of the three clusters, euphemistically called A, B, and C. Are they psychotics, sociopaths, and neurotics?
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*[https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-polyester-bounced-back/ Virginia Postrel on polyester] (2022)
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*[https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-vs-megalon-1973/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s "All the Godzilla Movies Ranked,"] ''Variety,''  Matthew Cherno (2021).
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*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-new-sultan?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNTgzNTMyMiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzM4ODk4NzksIl8iOiJCMEpCZiIsImlhdCI6MTYxNzY2MTIyNiwiZXhwIjoxNjE3NjY0ODI2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItODkxMjAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.zreo3nLvdp-RAW2M6N8clsJL0jyru0GA7yew_HX_bnk "Book Review: The New Sultan| Summary and commentary on Soner Cagaptay's "The New Sultan: Erdogan And The Crisis Of Modern Turkey,"] ''Astral Codex Ten'' (2021).
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*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-on-the-natural-faculties?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNTgzNTMyMiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzQ5MjY3NjcsIl8iOiJCMEpCZiIsImlhdCI6MTYxODM1MjU3MiwiZXhwIjoxNjE4MzU2MTcyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItODkxMjAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.f8FUl_PJpxOjqLOlI0hhc_DFZKLEVO-7OyLUH4IVlIo "Your Book Review: On The Natural Faculties,"] on Galen. Very good, pleasant reading.
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*[http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"]  Stephen G. Breyer.
  
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*[https://everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/ Bros in Lecce review], a very bad tasting menu.
  
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*[https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463 Personality disorders], Mayo Clinic description of the three clusters, euphemistically called A, B, and C. Are they psychotics, sociopaths, and neurotics?
 
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Latest revision as of 14:19, 10 November 2022

Introduction

  • "Building on Tradition — 1,400 Years of a Family Business" by Irene Herrera "Before its liquidation, Kongō Gumi was the oldest continuously operating company in the world. Founded in Japan a mere century after the fall of the Roman Empire, it survived extreme changes in Japan’s culture, government and economy, preserving traditional construction techniques and family values for over 1,400 years."
  • Valery Salov, one of the world's best chess players, thinks Hitler was part of a conspiracy to set up the nation of Israel, that Jewish identity is a myth, and that the Kabbalah explains a lot. Bobby Fischer too.


Economics

The Left

  • "The Old South Shall Rise Again, Victor Hanson, The New Criterion (2022). How Silicon Valley and the Antebellum South have many social parallels-- race obsession, poor infrastructure, great wealth, one-party rule, etc.
  • “We Will Burn and Loot and Destroy”: The Weather Underground and Its Legacy, Jay Nordlinger, Law and Liberty (2021). The first part is informative, but towards the end he makes the ridiculous claim that the Right supported violence like the Left did in 2020, and that we all underestimate how much violence is on our side. No we don't. The media is Left, and biases us all towards underestimating Left violence and towards imagining Right violence. Nordlinger is Establishment, and so he doesn't like Trump and wants to smear him. Still, the first 4/5 of the article is good.

The Right

Culture


Miscellaneous=

  • Personality disorders," Mayo Clinic description of the three clusters, euphemistically called A, B, and C. Are they psychotics, sociopaths, and neurotics?
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