1. Alex Tabarrok smacks the Wise Experts. "I am indeed angry that the people in power think they can solve real problems on the cheap and at someone else’s expense. This is not serious."
3. Why the mask theater backfires. "I trust my immune system more than this current experiment."
4. Bari Weiss, "The public messaging on [corona mitigation] has been a disaster." Get vaccinated, go on with your life!
5. You end up designing perfect bike-sheds. "Yes, we’d all love to reach consensus, but it’s almost impossible to make everyone happy."
6. Respect those bourgeois conventions. "If Biden wants to confer additional benefits on Blacks who are left behind, he should show that their status, somehow, is the result of slavery and Jim Crow, rather than the result of their decisions and their behavior."
7. An idea so loopy only a Trotskyist could come up with it. "The pandemic is a trigger event in world history, vastly intensifying international class conflict driven by 30 years of imperialist war and social austerity following the Stalinist restoration of capitalism in the Soviet Union in 1991."
8. The problem with Democrats. "We need our hands held by our government betters."
9. Euphemisms inevitably backfire, including "latinx." "It exemplifies the alluring yet always elusive quest to change the world by changing words."
10. Harrison Bergeron comes for gifted education. "That’s progressive 'equity' for you: Promote 'fairness' not by adding opportunity, but by removing it from those who’ve already done well."
11. Ambitious people still have the opportunity to opt out. "In the name of equity, [corona tyrants] have kept schools shut and alienated families who have the means to leave."
12. The quarterback controversy migrates. "Green Bay is Titletown. Now, somehow, Chicago is Tickled Town."
13. Mike "Dirty Jobs" Rowe isn't pleased. "Everybody dreams of being in the corner office, but nobody knows how to build the corner office?" We'll rewrite the ending, slightly. "'Forgive student loans' really means workers patternmakers must pay for privileged students people who couldn't carry their water."
14. If Rick Moran could find some ham, he could make a ham sandwich. "If Republicans can find the right messaging, Election Day 2022 will be a dark day in the history of the Democratic Party." It's always on the opposition to not be crazy, and it's not always given that they figure it out.
15. Office hours matter. Use them wisely. Students and faculty alike take note.
16. Jeff Jacoby, "The president and vice president agree that America, for all its racial flaws and grievous history, is not a racist country."
17. Rich Lowry, "Biden will have spent a huge amount of cash and political capital before he even learns what real crisis he’ll have to confront." No worries, the Brains Trust will have anticipated all the contingencies.
18. David Frum, "China must devote such a large share of its resources to basic subsistence needs to avert the overthrow of the state." They're going to get old before they get rich, too.
19. Milton Friedman will have his revenge. The citizens will get the malaise. "Central control came back with a vengeance in the pandemic, for understandable reasons, but the consequences of central control won’t be long behind."
20. Tyler Cowen, "Wokeness isn’t going to disappear, so the sooner wokeness becomes like the Unitarian Church — broadly admired but commanding only a modicum of passion and commitment — the better." So mote it be.
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