“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 former Trump campaign chief Paul Manafort saying he should be released from solitary confinement — though he is not currently in solitary confinement.
Washington Examiner
“Paul Manafort is being sent to solitary confinement in my district – Rikers Island. A prison sentence is not a license for gov torture and human rights violations. That‘s what solitary confinement is. Manafort should be released, along with all people being held in solitary,” the New York Democrat said.
AOC may have the wit to realize that the “revolution eats its own”. Madame Defarge is eventually called to mount the guillotine because by then it takes on a life of its own and must be fed … fed … fed.
Put down your keyboard now and step away from your computer
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. I am still waiting for a prominent historian to write a volume titled “Ooops”.
But environmentalists are constantly flying to conferences
The glaciers are melting, the coral reefs are dying, Miami Beach is slowly going under.
NYT
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 that seemed like pure escape and adventure has become double-edged, harmful, the epitome of selfish consumption. Going someplace far away, we now know, is the biggest single action a private citizen can take to worsen climate change. One seat on a flight from New York to Los Angeles effectively adds months worth of human-generated carbon emissions to the atmosphere.
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.
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.
“Corporatism” and all other systems of centralized control are ultimately dependent on the virtue of the person at the top. It assumes a “good king”. Therein lies its defect. A centralized system is not sufficiently “trustless” to survive a “bad king” who statistically must come along.
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.
The truth is out there
The Last Longest Day
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.
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.
‘A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall’ on Obama’s Bad Cops and Spies
Shades of Jefferson and Burr
Changing more than pronouns: a non-binary teen fights education laws
Today, at 13, they’ve let their wavy, golden-brown hair grow past their shoulders, with thick bangs over eyelashes long enough to graze oversized aviator glasses. Hormone blockers have staved off puberty, leaving Santi’s face round and their skin clear and hairless.
The doctrine of deep ecology declares that we must keep our hands off nature
I found this out firsthand years ago, when I had a conversation with the late Arne Naess, the Norwegian father of what is known as “deep ecology” and guru of the European Green movement. How seriously did Naess regard the divinity of Mother Nature? He told me that the eradication of smallpox was a technological crime against nature. The smallpox virus, he said—which had maimed, tortured, and killed millions of human beings—somehow “deserved” human protection.
The upheaval in the West
There is a crisis of senescence in liberal politics. The reason Biden, Harris and Sanders are competitive is their ideas are all roughly the same age.
The strategy of recruiting fresh new faces like Beto, AOC cannot obscure the basic problem of intellectual decrepitude. The challenge facing the West is that a generational agenda has become the ex-future.
The current tide of political upheaval is basically rejectionist. It is a backlash against the 20th century nihilist project. It’s necessary but insufficient. The harder part, which comes next, is building a successor to the ruins of 20th century ideology.
The question every revolution answers is “what is man”? Once the answer was that he was free under the sky of truth, entitled to a personal relationship with eternity. Then he became a blob of tissue, a ward of history as represented by the state. What will he be now?
Whatever the answer turns out to be it will be stamped by the age of information, the first era in which humanity has had to explicitly account for reality of ethereal things.
Burr conspiracy – Wikipedia
When Thomas Jefferson faced a coup.
‘Wow, What Is That?’ Navy Pilots Report Unexplained Flying Objects – The New York Times
Macron leads French establishment to disaster
As Le Pen triumphs
Brexiteers shatter establishment
Huge poll gains force showdown