3. Likely true, but up to a point. "[T]his culture war battle we're having now isn't fundamentally about whether people are really trans but about when and how to recognize it." There's more than one way to interpret "it's just a phase."
4. Limiting government limits rent-seeking. "[C]onservatives who still believe in the idea of free markets and limited government will have to have a response to the growing anti-corporate movement on the right, because it isn’t going away."
5. The next cold war: "China lied, people died, planet-wide."
6. The warring villages? "[T]he tribalist collectivism inherent in contemporary progressives' obsession with identity politics will result in less rather than more altruism in the United States."
7. The work of political economy is never done. "Time and time again, [vice president* Kamala] Harris’s evidence that we need bigger government is pointing to the problems created by… big government."
8. The plural of anecdote is "investigative journalism." "It’s a typical media practice: offer a story-driven account that ignores or obscures the statistical reality underneath, and call it 'news.'"
9. Genealogists quibble by nature. One can’t simply make stuff up because it suits a narrative. The extension to other areas of human endeavour are straightforward.
10. Traffic jams are what keep motorists alive. "[T]he only thing keeping us from crashing into each other was traffic jams themselves."
11. Let the Credentialed Experts tremble! "Should it turn out that scientists and experts and NGOs, etc. are villains rather than heroes of this story, we may very well see the expert-worshiping values of modern liberalism go up in a fireball of public anger." Plus, "Were we to truly understand its implications, this story might have the potential not only to hugely discredit western political, media and scientific elites but even to challenge the whole ideological basis on which their power rests."
12. Make Illinois safe for Eric Zorn? "I look around our deeply polarized country, see how high the stakes are in the fight for the future and how important it is for the Democrats to hold the line where they can." Both major parties seem more interested in being more pure for the base than in expanding their appeal. Is there a better case for limiting government?
13. Our rich revolutionaries have no record of policy success. The column dropped before those Fauci electronic mail messages became public.
14. Atlanta residents "could at least stop backing liberal politicians who fail to take measures to curtail crime."
15. Emergence will find a way. "Ultimately, no matter how devoted you are to centrally planning your bucolic village, there are just too many variables."
16. Marketmaking wisdom from Michael Munger. "[M]iddlemen profit by making other people better off." Yup. (So what if it's an old post? No matter how many times I tell youse guys, there's always some louse messes it up!)
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