DOWNLOAD IT WHILE IT’S HOT: The Hewlett Foundation has spent over $100 million trying to create an ideological movement to counteract “neoliberalism,” a word that, on the left, seems to mean “anything not socialist that we don’t like.” In the legal academy, the Foundation’s funding has gone to something called the Law and Political Economy Project, based at Yale Law School. I eviscerate the project’s underlying assumptions and ideological conceits in a new article. One point I’d like to particularly emphasize is that while the authors bemoan a decline in government spending and regulation that never happened, blaming it for a rise in inequality, they say not a word about the breakdown of the traditional two-parent family, especially among among American with less wealth and formal education. If you purport to be concerned with inequality but focus on, say, antitrust enforcement rather than the 40% out of wedlock birthrate, much higher among the poor and working class, you are doing it wrong.
Archive for 2024
August 17, 2024
NOT BY ACCIDENT BUT BY DESIGN: College students lack ‘rudimentary’ knowledge of history, civics: survey.
LEFTIST GARBAGE FROM LEFTIST GARBAGE: Pro-Palestine student group in Massachusetts uses readings from Lenin, Stalin, and Palestinian terrorist hijacker in ‘summer camp.’
BOO FRICKIN’ WHO:
Kamala Harris is not happy about this article. She believes it’s racist to call her this and to think a black woman doesn’t know how to fix the economy pic.twitter.com/68D1lE9mK0
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) August 17, 2024
Related:
The memes know https://t.co/3NROLxCyaw
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 16, 2024
UPDATE (From Ed): Kamunism, you say?
SALENA ZITO: Infighting breaks out among Pennsylvania Democrats.
HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: ‘A Huge Conflict of Interest’: Two Professors on Columbia’s Top Disciplinary Body Participated in Encampment, Photos Suggest.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: DEWALT 20V Max Cordless Drill/Driver Kit. #CommissionEarned
DEMOCRATS DISCOVER NATALIST POLICIES: Kamala Harris unveils populist policy agenda, with $6,000 credit for newborns.
Everything is proceeding as I have foreseen.
YOU’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BLOG: Tracking Kamala Harris’ Biggest And Baddest Lies.
August 16, 2024
THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE SHUT UP:
Hey @MichaelEDyson, I found another racist that mispronounced Kamala Harris’ first name, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Time to go to work, buddy! pic.twitter.com/W0M3Q7G3H9
— Defiant Baptist (@DefiantBaptist) August 16, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Ring in the weekend.
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Long March 4B launches experimental Yaogan-43 satellite group.
A BIDEN DEFEAT: Supreme Court blocks temporary enforcement of expanded protections for transgender students. “Challenges to the April 2024 rule are also pending elsewhere, including in Texas, Kansas, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Missouri.”
Related: Ken Paxton sues Biden administration for including misgendering someone as workplace harassment.
PEOPLE ARE HIGHLY SUGGESTIBLE: Barbie’s Final Joke May Have Inspired a Spike in Internet Searches.
YEAH, PRETTY MUCH:
Biden Briefly Released From Captivity To Campaign For Kamala https://t.co/HRjy6M7esC pic.twitter.com/nrOjNyCwJJ
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) August 16, 2024
HEH:
You'll never believe who has been in charge that entire time. https://t.co/XYvL1hWqIi
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) August 16, 2024
Funny, it was just a little while ago lefty journos were telling us that inflation is imaginary.
SCIENCE MARCHES ON: James Webb Telescope May Have Finally Solved the Crisis in Cosmology.
THIS READS LIKE A CERTAIN NYT COLUMNIST: The Conservative Case For Sauron.
DON’T BUY A CAR FROM BIG BROTHER: Driving Dystopia: Ford Patents Automated Speed Violation Detection System for Vehicles.
I REMEMBER WHEN HIGHER EDUCATION WAS SUPPOSED TO ENCOURAGE TOLERANCE FOR DISPARATE VIEWPOINTS: YAF Members Are ‘Unsafe’ Roommates According to University of Tampa RA Training