How the game was played. National Review
Author Archives: Richard Fernandez
Prosecutors and their power
But was the real-life Ms. Fairstein as scheming as the TV version? (She is played by Felicity Huffman, who was arrested in the college admissions scandal after filming was complete.) NYT Is the system capable of conveying unvarnished truth? But it’s not just about 5 wrongly convicted teenagers in NYC who have lost their youth …
It’s not about trade but the kind of world we want to live in.
If you watch from 12:00 on you’ll get the feeling the next global financial crisis may already be brewing in China. The 5G discussion is at 20:00. Spalding’s interview is a must watch. The words almost flood in. “I’d bet they’re asleep in New York. I’d bet they’re asleep all over America…” “Your phone knows …
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A Mythical Form of Space Propulsion Finally Gets a Real Test
If it works call it the Epstein Drive. Wired
Creating more vulnerabilities
The problem with making service providers responsible for content is it implicitly makes them responsible for political intelligence gathering and intelligence targets for hostile powers. Instead of gathering intel themselves enemy powers can just spy on the service providers. Or worse it can create a business opportunity for social media service providers to sell political …
Crime of the Congo
I am rereading Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Crime of the Congo”, detailing little Belgium’s monumental atrocities in Africa, made famous in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness. It’s easy to understand in retrospect how Europe blundered into the Great War. It had lost track of reality. Watching the way in which the media makes its own narrative today …
The jury is still out
Political historians are still divided over the cause of Hillary’s 2016 shock loss. Was she blocked by an unseen 8 foot center? Or was she alone under the basket and missed?
Blood, sweat and fears
“America has faced huge challenges before, WWII and putting a man on the moon,” Warren said. “This environmental catastrophe bearing down on us may be the biggest challenge yet.” Federalist
AOC denounces Manafort solitary confinement
This is all the reason why elections should mean “wait your turn till the next”. Manafort’s treatment may someday apply to his prosecutors. But people in power never realize this. “Happy Days” will never end. The money will never run out. The music will keep playing. Until it stops. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sided with imprisoned …
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Put down your keyboard now and step away from your computer
After admitting on Tuesday that conservative comedian Steven Crowder had not violated their community standards, YouTube announced Wednesday it would strip his videos of monetization, which keeps him from earning income from ads on his content. Blaze
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
“The Last Black Man in San Francisco,” the debut film for both Fails and Talbot, is a lament for the exodus of black people from the city and the affordability crisis that is pushing out all but the rich. NYT People think they can manage complex systems only to discover it leads to unintended consequences. …
But environmentalists are constantly flying to conferences
The glaciers are melting, the coral reefs are dying, Miami Beach is slowly going under. Quick, says a voice in your head, go see them before they disappear! You are evil, says another voice. For you are hastening their destruction. To a lot of people who like to travel, these are morally bewildering times. Something …
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He Stayed at Tiananmen to the End. Now He Wonders What It Meant
You do some things for yourself, because of who you are. What other people do is up to them. NYT
Elizabeth Warren’s Corporatism
Corporatism” is one of the most misunderstood words in the political vocabulary. American progressives use it to indicate the domination of the state by business interests, when in fact it means something closer to the opposite: the subordination of commerce and industry to political mandates. National Review “Corporatism” and all other systems of centralized control …
A Physicist Has Proposed a Pretty Depressing Explanation For Why We Never See Aliens
“What if the first life that reaches interstellar travel capability necessarily eradicates all competition to fuel its own expansion?” he hypothesises. Science Alert
The truth is out there
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The Last Longest Day
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No Heroes Left: The MLK Revelations | Roger L. Simon
Great piece. The challenge since the Fall has been to live in a world without heroes yet still believe in heroism. The Judaeo Christian journey was always an enterprise of sinners. The difference used to be: we knew it. Roger Simon
Why Edmund Morris Couldn’t Capture Reagan
To this day nobody can figure out how Reagan, who all the intellectuals of the day proclaimed a cruel, reckless dunce with near unanimity, could have been a great American president. Atlantic
‘A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall’ on Obama’s Bad Cops and Spies
Shades of Jefferson and Burr Real Clear Politics