Author Archive: Glenn Reynolds

MATT TAIBBI: America’s Intellectual “Bloodbath:” If a censored tree falls in the forest, do we still have to misquote it? Of course, comrade, the narrative requires it.

You gotta love this: “Martin complains a ‘tsunami of free expression’ created a place where Trump’s ‘cries of fake news’ have an impact. What to do? He cites the weekend New York Times hit piece that blamed people like me for stopping new censorship plans, and despairs of government ever gaining enough control to reverse the public’s ‘circumvention of traditional media.’ ”

The Internet identifies censorship and routes around it. Maybe they should have thought of that before they started censoring.

OPEN THREAD: Expatiate freely.

THE GLOBAL BABY BUST: Why 4 Billion On the Way Up is Different on the Way Down. “There is a difference [between] a world population that is 4 billion and strongly growing versus 4 billion and shrinking. When I write about global population collapse there are many people who will say that they lived in a world with 4 billion people and it was fine. This like saying they were in an airplane that was flying up through 10,000 feet and then 20,000 feet and those altitudes were all fine. The difference will be when the plane at 30,000 feet has lost engine power and will start plummeting uncontrollably. I am saying hey the world has lost three out of four engines for population growth and this is not good.”

THIS KEEPS HAPPENING: Stanford Professor Behind California’s New Equity-Focused Math Curriculum Accused of Bogus Citations. “Someone should really make a documentary about this. A “rock-star” Stanford Education professor who helped inspire math de-tracking in San Francisco and who subsequently helped re-write the California math curriculum with an emphasis on equity has been accused of dozens of cases of ‘citation misrepresentation.'”

WE NEED A COVID TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION:

This appears to be a settlement by the FDA, which is in some ways more impressive.

HE’S RIGHT:

And yes, any position that’s not crazy and self-destructive is now “far right.”

HE’S NOT WRONG:

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