MALE PRIVILEGE: “There are now more of these HPV-related throat cancers in men than there are cervical cancers in women.”

THAT’S A FEATURE, NOT A BUG: Democratic Socialists of America’s Drift from Democratic Socialism to Stalinist Totalitarianism.

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A CAPITAL ERROR: You may remember the fuss over income inequality a few years ago caused by the release of Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the bestseller no-one read. it turns out that yet another paper has found problems with Piketty’s data:

I conclude that Piketty’s data for the wealth share of the top 10 percent for the period 1870 to 1970 are unreliable. The values he reported are manufactured from the observations for the top 1 percent inflated by a constant 36 percentage points. Piketty’s data for the top 1 percent of the distribution for the nineteenth century (1810–1910) are also unreliable. They are based on a single mid-century observation that provides no guidance about the antebellum trend and only tenuous information about the trend in inequality during the Gilded Age. The values Piketty reported for the twentieth century (1910–2010) are based on more solid ground, but have the disadvantage of muting the marked rise of inequality during the Roaring Twenties and the decline associated with the Great Depression.

Phil Magness and Robert Murphy, who first drew attention to these errors, are vindicated once again.

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ROGER KIMBALL: Donald Trump Is an American Patriot of the Same Stamp as Ronald Reagan.

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: Sarah Hoyt on Slavery and Freedom.

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THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT THE WAY I’D HOPED: Hacked Butt Plug Can Be Controlled “From Anywhere.”

WALTER DURANTY, CALL YOUR OFFICE: Making the World Safe for Communism — Again.

A recent surge of Communist nostalgia suggests that a Marxist revival of sorts may be afoot in some elite American quarters. Nowhere is this more apparent than in “Red Century,” the New York Times editorial page’s yearlong series of op-eds commemorating the centenary of the October Revolution.

A handful of “Red Century” op-eds were critical of the Communist legacy. Yet readers won’t find among the 35 published so far a detailed treatment of the horrors of the gulag. Nor will they find coverage of the misery that socialist regimes in Cuba, North Korea, Venezuela, and elsewhere inflict on their citizens to this day. There are no accounts of the persecution of Christians under Communism regimes, past and present. Young readers unfamiliar with history will learn about Star Trek’s supposed debt to Marxist ideology, but they won’t encounter major Cold War heroes such as Vaclav Havel, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, John Paul II, and others who inspired Communist citizens to live in truth.

We know which side the New York Times is on — we’ve always known.

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THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER: HILLARY CONFIDANT LINDA BLOODWORTH-THOMASON KNEW OF WEINSTEIN. “The creator of ‘Designing Women’ and Clinton confidant details horrific stories of sexual impropriety and abuse of power (“The No. 1 casting criterion for an actress is that she be ‘hot and f—able”) and reveals she warned Democrat operatives about Harvey Weinstein’s rumored behavior.”

How much of a “Clinton confidant” is Bloodworth-Thomason? In 2014, the Hollywood Reporter listed her as being one of five of “Hillary Clinton’s Biggest Hollywood Confidants,” and as they note, “they’ve known each other since the ’80s, when the Clintons were occupying the governor’s mansion.”

This makes Hillary’s Sgt. Schultz impersonation that she knew nothing – nothing! – of Weinstein’s degradations – while taking nearly $1.5 million of his money over the years seem increasingly implausible. Why is Democrat-dominated Hollywood such a cesspit of abuse and misogyny?

UPDATE (FROM STEVE): Yep.

The only girl power Hillary has ever been interested in is her own.

WELL, GOOD: Hero Mandalay Bay security guard resurfaces on Ellen in LA for his first interview after he vanished.

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WHY ARE DEMOCRATS SO RACIST? Ralph Northam campaign defends deleting black running mate from campaign literature.

Josh Kraushaar comments: “This is a pretty big deal now that it’s been publicized, given how important black turnout is for Northam.”

SO IT’S COME TO THIS: Man Spits on Homeless Guy for ‘Making His Grandmother a Slave.’

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TO BE FAIR, I THINK PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE IN HOLLYWOOD SEES PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE ELSE IN HOLLYWOOD AS AN OBJECT, NOT A PERSON: “And, during this time, a female producer had me do a nude lineup with about five women who were much, much thinner than me.”

Ann Althouse comments: “Listen up, columnists who proffer the solution of putting some more women in positions of executive power. Women do hurt other women, and they can do it in a system in which the men are out to sexually exploit women. For one thing, some women are into sexually dominating/humiliating other women. For another, if the men are structuring the workplace around their own sexual interests, the women who rise within the power structure may be the ones who play along, facilitate, and demonstrate what tough gals they are. And then there’s just good old fashioned woman-on-woman cruelty — all that envy and the burning desire to be The Woman.”