ANALYSIS: TRUE. Louvre Heist Encapsulates a Western Culture That Will Not Defend Itself.
More accurately, the core leadership class won’t defend it, and actively hates it. It’s up to the rest of the population to mount a defense.
Archive for 2025
October 27, 2025
GABRIEL ROSSMAN: The Coming AI Cataclysm.
One sometimes hears that instead of waging the impossible fight of getting kids not to use AI, we should teach them how to use it. There is a logic to this. When a technology becomes more available, wages go up for those who have human capital that complements the technology. But this raises the question of what sort of human capital is a complement to—as opposed to a substitute for—artificial intelligence and the corollary of whether such human capital is best cultivated through use of artificial intelligence or abstention from it? The usual assumption is that the most valuable skill one can acquire is prompt engineering. This is indeed an important skill to have, but I am skeptical that one learns to interact well with an AI through off-loading reading and writing tasks to it during one’s education.
My experience when I have caught university students making unauthorized use of AI is that the cheaters are too ignorant and lazy to know what good output would look like. Sometimes these errors are very obvious, as when two of my students turned in memos that did not summarize the assigned reading but one with a similar title. Knowing what good output looks like requires skills and knowledge that can only be acquired the old-fashioned way, by doing one’s own work. And I am talking about students at a selective university a few years into the AI boom. How much worse must it be at a junior high chosen at random? And how much worse will it be when students who used AI for their entire time in junior high and high school age into first college and then the labor force?
Maybe those kids would have been better off learning trades, even before AI.
A BATTLE OF WITS WITH THE HALF-ARMED: BBC Interviewer Demolishes Kamala’s Excuses for Biden Cover-Up.
LEFTISM CAN’T BE MAINTAINED WITHOUT CONSTANT LYING:
A German left wing politician claimed her own attackers were White Native Germans instead of admitting they were migrants
The worst case of suicidal empathy I can ever remember. pic.twitter.com/HoYIRFF1IS
— Basil the Great (@Basil_TGMD) October 27, 2025
KRUISER’S MORNING BRIEFING: Kamala Harris Is Spending a Lot of Time With Her Imaginary Friends. “We’ve been having a grand time poking fun at her train wreck of a book tour. Her delusion has actually metastasized since her ignominious defeat last November. This loon turns every major defeat into a perverse self-affirmation. That breakfast Franzia sure is powerful. Now it appears that she’s completely unaware that she has been doing nothing but firebombing bridges with her book and the tour interviews.”
SEXY, TOO: Rebels turn right: Questioning leftist ideas is ‘dangerous, alluring.’
“The real political energy” on campuses is “on the right,” writes Julia Steinberg, a recent Stanford graduate, in The Atlantic. She started college as a progressive, but was frustrated by classrooms where “everyone was afraid of offending everyone else.” It wasn’t socially acceptable to disagree about ideas.
She ended up with other ex-liberals on the Stanford Review, where the staff “included MAGA diehards, traditional Catholics, anti-Trump neoconservatives, isolationists, anti-identity-politics liberals, Luddites, and (in my case) techno-capitalists, all challenging one another’s ideas.”
When Steinberg talked to students who wanted to write for the Review, they talked about Covid lockdowns, cancel culture and the “stifling” progressivism of their high schools. “Questioning ideas seemed dangerous — and alluring,” she writes. “Preachy, judgmental authority has never sat well with young people. The young people of today see that authority in the establishment left, not the right.”
This right here is why “No Kings” and so many other protests look like Metamucil ads.
IT’S LITERALLY THE STATUTORY TERM: Chicago Mayor Spazzes Out Over ‘Racist’ Term ‘Illegal Alien.’
And Brandon Johnson is a moron.
SAD, BUT HARDLY UNIQUE TO RUSSIA — PUTIN’S STUPID WAR JUST SPED THINGS UP: After the Purges and the Wars: Why Russia Keeps Running Out of Tomorrow. “Slogans can’t hide the hard truth: Too many people have died, too many women have left, and too few believe the future is worth having children for.”
ILYA SHAPIRO: The Constitutional Commentary We Need. A review of The Heritage Guide to the Constitution: Fully Revised Third Edition by Josh Blackman, John Malcolm, et al.
LIMITED TIME DEAL: Crock-Pot 7 Quart Oval Manual Slow Cooker. #CommissionEarned
AHOY!
Hey, @BillKristol is assessing manhood again https://t.co/6aYN16in8g
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) October 27, 2025
Weak man. Fake arena. https://t.co/MCtQwxUK4g
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 26, 2025
(Classical reference in headline.)
CIVIL RIGHTS UPDATE: Chicago Declares War On Lawful Gun Owners. “Both McWilliams and Washington are black, and CBS heavily pursues that angle. I guess we’re supposed to believe that a city with radical leftwing black Democratic Mayor Brandon Johnson, running a one party Democratic city who hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1931, in a state run by Democratic Governor J.B. Pritzker since 2019, is institutionally racist against black people. Maybe. But judging from their rhetoric and actions, Chicago and Illinois Democrats seem institutionally hostile to lawful gun owners of all races.”
YEP.
The NAACP will back the whitest woman to have ever lived if it means not supporting a black Republican woman.
Like the ADL, it is a completely useless organization that will counter its own supposed mission to maintain power for one party. https://t.co/6y3FnTrI1I
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) October 26, 2025
“FAR-RIGHT:” Javier Milei’s far-right party wins Argentina’s midterm elections.
Argentine President Javier Milei’s libertarian party has won a landslide victory in national midterm legislative elections, with voters backing his free-market reforms and deep austerity measures.
On Sunday, Mr Milei’s La Libertad Avanza party procured 40.8 per cent of the congressional votes, with more than 95% of ballots counted.
The center-left Peronist movement trailed behind with 31.6 percent of the votes.
The win should enable Mr Milei, a self-described anarcho-capitalist economist, to plough on with his radical overhaul of Argentina’s long-troubled economy – his campaign centres around downsizing the state and deregulating the economy. However, he will need to forge alliances in Congress with the center-right in order to pass legislation.
In 2023, Foreign Policy smeared Milei as “the World’s Latest Wannabe Fascist,” making him and Trump the only wannabe fascists who aim to downsize the state and deregulate the economy.
AMERICA’S WORST PRESIDENT. WELL, AT LEAST IN THE TOP THREE BAD ONES. Flashback: Woodrow Wilson made democracy unsafe for the world.
ON SUNDAYS I RUN A PROMO POST FOR (MOSTLY) INDIE AUTHORS TO THE RIGHT OF LENIN: Book Promo And Vignettes By Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike.
There’s also a fun vignette challenge.
ANALYSIS: TRUE. The Rot Inside Higher Education Is Too Deep to Self-Correct.
In virtually every college and university in America, there reigns today an ideological monoculture skewed to the left. At Central Connecticut State University [CCSU], where I have taught history for the last 35 years, there are just five or six self-proclaimed conservatives on a faculty of nearly 500. Moreover, many faculty abuse their power over students by reserving class time otherwise spent on the subject they are contractually required to teach by articulating and imposing a left-wing orthodoxy on students who have neither the autonomy nor the intellectual wherewithal to challenge. Over the years, but more so since the death of George Floyd and the riots and destruction it triggered, CCSU students have told me in confidence and in whispered tones how much they resent their professors selfishly shoving their politics down their throats such as issues of illegal immigration, President Trump, non-existent Israeli genocide in Gaza, “systemic racism,” and so on.
A sociology professor at CCSU even informed her students that “listening to country music means you have a white hood [like those worn by the Ku Klux Klan] hanging in your closet.”
All of this is a perversion of why universities exist: to provide students with the knowledge, drawn from exposure to a wide range of opinions on multiple subjects, they will need to prosper vocationally and in every other aspect of their lives. But while CCSU and nearly every other university in America loudly proclaim their commitment to diversity based on race, gender, and class, intellectual diversity, which is the only kind that truly matters in higher education, is virtually absent.
Yes, it is.
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT: Sake Festivals and Other Events.
BE GENTLE SHE’S A NEPO-BABY WHOSE PARENTS LIED TO HER AS THEY LIED TO THE NATION: Chelsea Clinton Lectures Trump on the ‘People’s House’ and Trips Over Her Own Parents Instead.
NOISOME BECLOWNS HIMSELF: Gavin Newsom’s Glass House: The $1.1 Billion Scandal Behind His White House Hypocrisy.
IN THE END, THE LEFT ONLY GASLIGHTS ITSELF: Mind-Boggling: America’s statues “weren’t desecrated or destroyed” — The Left Is Rewriting Its Mobs Tearing Down of Statues to Only a Desire to Put Them “into museums to commemorate the fallen during the Civil War”.
Devoid of their full on control over all media and communication, they can’t make their alternate history stick anymore.
GUESS WHY THERE’S A DRAMATIC RISE IN CHILD PROSTITUTION IN LA? Watching a Horrifying Crisis in Los Angeles, the New York Times…Almost Kind Of Sees It.
IF THEY TELL YOU THEY HATE YOU, BELIEVE THEM: Democrats are upfront about what they want to do to you if you supported Trump.
And for the X-lotls