1. Calling out the Church of Intersectionality? "To demonize a writer rather than address the writer’s arguments is a confession that one has no rational response to them."
2. John Hinderaker, "It is too bad when a severely ailing 85-year-old doesn’t live to be 86. But the fact that we have devastated the lives of our young people over the Wuhan epidemic is a crime."
3. George Will, "[Democrats'] devotion to constitutional propriety expired three months ago, at noon, Jan. 20." I would have written "remaining devotion," but whatever.
4. A father objects to the unintended consequences of inclusive education. "I object to the idea that Blacks are unable to succeed in this country without aid from government or from whites."
5. Outdoor masking is quarantine theater. "It is [TV talker Joy] Reid and [superannuated virologist Anthony] Fauci who are being irrationally paranoid, not the people they are criticizing."
6. The corona tyranny is an opportunity for classical liberals and practitioners of conventional skepticism, should they recognize it. "We can hope it will be the realization that the old principles of public health served us well, as did the legal and moral principles of human rights and restrictions on the powers of government."
7. More John Hinderaker, "The dominant elements of our political class hate our country." The time is right for a pragmatic populism, if people would but see it.
8. Sarah Hoyt, "When an entire class of people think they’re immune from punishment, no matter the reason — skin color, features, size, or whatever — those people will naturally supply the vast majority of criminals." What you enable you get more of.
9. Reason's Matt Welch, "It is entirely possible to believe that the [systematic racism]-term is 100 percent applicable in the previous paragraph's examples while acknowledging that this language and utter preponderance sounds a bit goofy around the gills for a significant portion of the public who need to be persuaded if the sweeping changes advocated by activists are going to be enacted. Unless, that is, skeptics can be alienated into disengagement or intimidated into silence, leaving the remaining players on a shrinking field increased elbow room." Sometimes exit is the only option.
10. Stephen Green, "Insanity Wrap is a big believer in bourgeois, middle-class values and behavior because they are a universal and color-blind way to live a decent and successful life."
11. Matt "Dean Dad" Reed gropes toward the Tragic Vision. "The universalist approach to ethics -- everyone is entitled to basic protections, human dignity and the like -- is often and easily caricatured as idealistic. It’s anything but. It’s based on a realistic, even gloomy, sense that absolutely everybody is flawed."
12. Reason's J. D. Tuccille sees the original intent of the Second Amendment. "Just in case their fears come true, people worried that authoritarianism will come to America might want to learn from pro-democracy activists elsewhere. That requires treating efforts at civilian disarmament as even more reason to keep the tools for self-defense close to hand."
13. Neo: "Black lives don’t matter very much to Black Lives Matter."
14. Charles Marohn, "We were too poor to tear anything down."
15. John Hinderaker, "Liberals love covid restrictions and the arbitrary power they give to governments. They won’t stop bullying the rest of us until we make them stop."
16. There will be a reckoning. "It is time to reassert the primacy of freedom."
18. Let there be limits. "Three-fourths of a century after it ended, the war against Nazi Germany remains the wellspring of American Exceptionalism—the primary source of the illusion that having once rescued the world from evil, the United States is called upon to do it again and again."
19. Michigan, the corona cesspool of the west. "Because [the governor] did such a great job at the beginning of the pandemic, more people are getting sick now because they don’t have antibodies… or something." She's out of options. Pobrecito, que lastima.
21. A different sort of intersectionality. "No, what caused and continues to cause the exodus out of California is not tax burden, or regulation, or cost of living, or housing prices. Rather, it is the burden, and regulation, and cost of living, and housing prices, and more."
23. We don't want this.
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