REMINDER:

Since "Capitalism" is trending on X this New Year's Eve, it's a perfect time to remind everyone that it is the single best system for reducing poverty and improving the overall human condition that has ever been discovered. pic.twitter.com/J767QxBlZg

— Ezra Wyrick 🗽 (@Ezra4Liberty) December 31, 2023

WELL, KEEP UP THE SCARE: DEI is on the run. “Diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, in higher education was deceptively sold as a set of policies designed to promote “the fair treatment and full participation of all people,” particularly groups that “have historically been underrepresented.” But DEI offices have proved to be epicenters of division and ideological conformity, stirring hostilities and imposing an intolerant monoculture. Fortunately, 2023 saw more than a dozen states start to take action against the DEI hydra, with six achieving concrete steps that other states should follow.”

ANALYSIS: TRUE. “As we survey the American landscape, we cannot help but notice that just about everything has been corrupted by the left.”

JONATHAN HAIDT & ZACH RAUSCH: What We Learned in 2023 About Gen Z’s Mental Health Crisis.

ROGER KIMBALL: The Pitfalls of Benevolence: Unpacking the Toxic Mix of Universal Good Intentions and Political Correctness in the New Year.

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYONE, EVEN THE LOSERS AND THE HATERS.

MICROBIOME NEWS: Study reveals relationship of gut microbiome on children’s brain development and function.

OPEN THREAD: Last of the year. Try to be worthy.

THE NEW SPACE RACE: Second H3 launch planned for February.

OUT NEXT WEEK FROM KURT SCHLICHTER: The Attack. An October 7 style attack in the United States? It could happen. (Bumped).

GOOD NEWS FOR OTTERS: Thriving Otters in North America Linked to Nuclear Weapons Tests. Here’s Why.

REALLY? SO WHY DO PEOPLE SEEM DUMBER NOW THAN WHEN SMOKING WAS COMMON? Alarming Study: Smoking Causes Brain Shrinkage – “It Sounds Bad, and It Is Bad.”

BEWARE: FDA Warns Amazon Over Supplements Containing Erectile Dysfunction Drugs: Agency bought and tested products that were found to contain tadalafil and sildenafil.

I’m surprised people put those in.

WE KNOW ENOUGH: Why the full extent of Hamas’s sex crimes may never be known: First responders to massacre saw raped and abused bodies, but the rapidity of events – and cultural taboos – may leave the truth uncovered.

The truth of Hamas’s depravity runs counter to the preferred narrative of many in the West.

WELL, GOOD: A Home Invasion That Failed: And it failed because the invadees had done their homework beforehand.

BUMMER: Food-as-Medicine study finds no improvements in type 2 diabetes patients.

“IMMIGRANTS.” Cali. becomes first state to offer health insurance to all undocumented immigrants.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: Out partying on New Year’s Eve? Here’s a safety checklist.

LOOKING FOR A YEAR-END DONATION IN A GOOD CAUSE? Consider donating to FIRE, a campus free speech organization I’ve supported for years. They do excellent work.

I also recommend the New Civil Liberties Alliance. I sit on their board and they’re making major legal inroads against the administrative state.

LOL: Navajo Nation president asks NASA to delay Moon launch over possible human remains.

More here. “In other words, though the Navaho have no plans to ever go there, have done nothing to try to explore it, and have no remains of any tribal members on the flight, he wants to claim the Moon as controlled entirely and forever by the Indian tribes of North America because of a law designed solely to protect specific archeological sites on Earth, where Indian remains are discovered.”

I dunno, kinda sounds like someone’s holding out for a payoff to get out of the way.

LOOKING FOR A YEAR-END DONATION IN A GOOD CAUSE? Consider donating to FIRE, a campus free speech organization I’ve supported for years. They do excellent work.

I also recommend the New Civil Liberties Alliance. I sit on their board and they’re making major legal inroads against the administrative state.

CONSEQUENCES ARE FOR TRUMP SUPPORTERS: Charges dropped against UChicago ‘United for Palestine’ sit-in trespassers.

GOOD MORNING! Happy 123123!

MAYBE PUTTING THE ENEMIES OF CIVILIZATION IN CHARGE OF EDUCATING OUR CHILDREN WAS A BAD MOVE: SHOCKING POLL: 30% of Gen Z thinks Osama bin Laden’s ideas were a ‘force for good’.

WELL, GOOD: ‘Trump Democrats’ helping destroy ‘Obama coalition’ of black people, Hispanics, and youth.