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5. Those missing senior noncoms in higher education. "If your goal is to try to move as many students as possible from the remedial course onto the track for graduation, it didn’t make any sense to take the eager but also entirely inexperienced and barely trained first-semester grad student and make them the course instructor." Bonus quote: "Eighty percent of four-year colleges and universities admit more than 50 percent of their applicants, in contrast to Princeton’s 3 percent admission rate. These include regional public institutions that are dedicated to access and opportunity but, because of that mission, are precluded from reaping the rewards of prestige and selectivity." The land grants and mid-majors are in the same business as the Ivies, and they could reap some of those rewards if they chose to.
6. Yes, Virginia, there is government failure. "Markets may fail sometimes, but government policy fails much more frequently, and the world benefits from private efforts to mitigate the fallout from those failures. The almost universal view of economists that government policy serves to correct market failures is misguided." Read and understand.
8. General strikes, without the vanguard. Low wage workers might be participating. "Some workers have retired early or found other ways to make ends meet. Others simply don’t want to return to backbreaking, low-wage shit jobs." Pilots and air traffic controllers might also be going Galt. "Is There a 'Sickout' Over the Vaccine Mandate?" Who is John Galt? "A strike today is less harmful than the alternatives that could happen in the future."
9. Overtaken by events? "You might expect regional inequality to self-correct, given how costly and congested the hyper-prosperous cities have become. Instead, the success of these cities feeds on itself, as more employers and highly educated people decide they need to be where the action is." Might have made sense before the corona tyranny and the riots in Democrat cities.
10. Expensive and Unreliable, Please. "California is committing energy suicide, and given that people rely on energy for just about everything, we shouldn’t be surprised by the toll this will take on human life."
12. Put not your trust in Wise Experts. "Their energy has shifted to achieving a goal that will remain beyond their grasp: getting some kind of acknowledgement of their intellectual and moral superiority from red America." Their authority is gone. "Fogged by data, statistical models, and ideas about nudging the public towards better behavior, experts sometimes fail to reckon with common sense or the fact that the people who need their guidance have access to many other sources of information and advice."
13. How many times do I have to tell you that "no child left behind" means "no child gets ahead?" "The Dutch are quite practical, and saw no reason why those kids capable of working at the highest level should be required to share a classroom with kids who could not, because that would mean the entire class would have to be taught to the level of the weakest students."
14. Kurt Schlichter, may I introduce Rod Dreher. "For what I think was the first time, I began to regard these people — the ruling class that runs NPR and all the institutions — as people who despise normal people so much that they are trying to colonize our culture."
15. Unlivable Chicago. "Say what you will about suburbanites, but they would've raised enough hell about that eyesore and got some results. And we needn't get into John's company holding onto it without bothering to check in frequently or make repairs as they await the perfect time to exploit gentrification and rip people off." That is to say, when neighbors might finally raise hell about the eyesores.
16. Perhaps it's time to bet on emergence. "[D]ealing with unpleasant realities is what it means to be in politics."
19. What If There Is No Meritocracy? "Equality under the law is a principle that describes our relationship to the state, not our relationships to one another in a free society, where many different kinds of hierarchies and elites emerge naturally and inevitably. A mature and healthy society would recognize this as beneficial and necessary, but we are Americans, and we do not have that kind of society."
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