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June 23, 2019
ROGER L. SIMON ON IRAN: To Neocon or Not to Neocon, Is That the Question?
THE 21ST CENTURY IS NOT TURNING OUT AS I’D HOPED: Flying insects in hospitals carry ‘superbug’ germs.
GOT WOKE, WENT BROKE: Anita Sarkeesian’s Feminist Frequency nonprofit is broke.
WE LIVE IN A GOLDEN AGE OF MUSCLE, BUT THIS IS STILL RIDICULOUS: Hellcat-Powered Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 6×6 Pickup Exists Because It Can.
HIS APPEAL IS BECOMING MORE SELECTIVE: 18 People Attend Eric Swalwell’s Gun Control Speech Near NRA HQ.
VIOLENT RHETORIC ALERT: Democrat Presidential Candidate Eric Swalwell Threatens Violence Against Donald Trump: ‘And there’s nothing we won’t do in the streets, courts, and at the ballot box to stop him.’
Related: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
WHAT A FIND: “Archivists who bought a stash of CDs at a house clearance sale found 2,400 photos of Ground Zero in New York taken following the 9/11 attacks in 2001. They appear to have been taken by an as yet unidentified construction worker who helped to clear up the wreckage of the World Trade Center towers and surrounding area.”
The photos are currently online at a Flickr account.
(Via Ace of Spades.)
IT’S TIME TO END THE CULTURE OF LEFTY IMPUNITY: Multiple fingers pointing at alleged leaker of plans for ICE raids today.
ROGER KIMBALL: Charles Reich, R.I.P.
Finally, speaking of the “ultimate sign of reverence, vulnerability, and innocence” of the liberated youth consciousness that he celebrates, Reich says: “Oh wow!”
“Oh wow!” Do not think that Reich sounds silly because he is quoted “out of context.” As Thomas Mallon observed in a look back at The Greening of America in The American Spectator, Charles Reich is one author who actually benefits by being quoted out of context. The more context you give him, the more preposterous he sounds.
And yet the late William Shawn, then the editor of The New Yorker, thought the book important enough to excerpt in his magazine, thus reminding us that his publication of Jonathan Schell’s hysterically alarmist book The Fate of the Earth in The New Yorker some years later was not simply a loopy aberration. Whatever his virtues as an editor, William Shawn had a large soft spot for unhinged left-wing drivel.
Does that sound too severe, too judgmental, too hard? Read on.
Do indeed. Roger’s obit is a look back at one of the seminal figures who helped birth the strange socialist eco-panic of the early 1970s, largely in response to Richard Nixon being in the White House, much as this week’s “Green New Deal” is a reaction to Trump. A few other early ‘70s panics are featured here:
UPDATE (FROM GLENN): You can learn a lot from Charles Reich, though. The Greening of America would have been seen as obvious nonsense a few years earlier, and dated nonsense a few years later. It appeared, however, at the perfect time to be a national bestseller. This has led to scholars describing the concept of “Reich Optimality” — “the point at which an idea ceases to be ridiculous but has not yet become either banal or ridiculous (again)-the fleeting moment during which it is a creative insight” — in terms of the timing of scholarship.
NEWS YOU CAN USE, PART DEUX: That Story About Kids Growing Horns Because of Smartphones Is Fake News.
NEWS YOU CAN USE, PART UNE: EcoWatch: Those Impossible Burgers are neither healthier nor more eco-friendly.
(Link safe; goes to omnivore Jazz Shaw at Hot Air.)
HIS REAL — AND UNFORGIVABLE — CRIME WAS REVEALING HOW ROTTEN THE SYSTEM IS: PSU poised to punish prof who proved point with hoax ‘dog rape’ article, despite receiving global praise for prof.
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SEE, THIS IS WHY I SAY DON’T GET COCKY, KIDS: Zogby: Trump behind in battleground states key to 2016 victory.
Related: Trump’s Way To Victory.
I BLAME THE PEPSI SYNDROME: 10 Times HBO’s Chernobyl Got the Science Wrong.
Of course, then there are all the critics who got the politics wrong: Liberal Critics’ Bizarre Take: HBO’s Chernobyl: It’s Not About Communism.
(Classical reference in headline.)
THE MEDAL OF FREEDOM IN ECONOMICS:
At the Medal of Freedom presentation, President Trump offered a remarkable glimpse of what he himself is like as a person. It belies the notion that he is but a showman with scant appreciation for ideas. He described the Laffer Curve in detail and spoke of Mr. Laffer’s early work for Governor Jerry Brown of California, as well as President Reagan. Mr. Trump disclosed that he had studied the Laffer Curve, and over the years has heard it discussed at Wharton.
Mr. Laffer spent his remarks acknowledging an array of colleagues and collaborators. Among those at the ceremony were Vice President Pence, Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Steve Moore, and others who played roles what is known as the supply-side revolution. Several figures now gone — Jack Kemp, Robert Bartley of the Wall Street Journal, and Jude Wanniski — were also named. All the more remarkable is the staying power of the supply-side ideas.
Robert Bartley’s The Seven Fat Years and How to Do It Again was a powerful and timely piece of contrarianism during that brief period the DNC-MSM dubbed “the worst economy in 50 years,” only to announce — in December of 1992, after the election — that the recession had ended prior to the fall of 1992. Or as a December 7th 1992 Time magazine headline noted with full snark, “Bush’s Economic Present for Clinton.”
HARSH BUT FAIR:
Reminder: Thanks to Obama’s policies — and Hillary Clinton’s — black people are sold as slaves in Libya. That’s what “expertise” gets you.
Related: The Suicide of Expertise.
BLUE ON BLUE: Buttigieg faces protesters over fatal police shooting.