Who knew we'd be talking about this? "A sex strike by Democrat women would end the need for abortions." We won't cross picket lines on this one.
We’re done being nice. This week's roundup of pithy elaboration of traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
1. The last gasp? "Such a desperately stupid maneuver could only come from a regime close to collapse."
2. The Fatal Conceit. "To be a moderate Democrat is to say that you’re right, and the rest of humanity is wrong."
3. We'll eventually miss family structure. "More than half of Americans don’t know the names of all four of their grandparents."
4. Deconstruct bourgeois institutions at your peril! "The good fortune to have been born into a liberal market society is far more salient than the luck of either social class or genetic endowments."
5. Imports do not subtract from GDP. The point of Y = C + I + G + (X-M) is to avoid double counting in C or G.
6. By their fruits. "The Left ends up at war with reality."
7. Reality has a steep grading curve. "Having children during one’s best childbearing years is seen as, and statistically is, lower-class—the prejudices of the educated are sometimes stupid."
8. Institutions are civilization. "Russian troops have no respect for civilized norms."
9. Good. "Americans trust the Republican Party over the Democrats to handle inflation, by 19% points; the economy more generally, by 14 points; and crime, by a dozen points."
10. "I don't have a childhood."
11. Donald Trump is his own worst enemy. "[T]he more time that he spends rehashing the 2020 election instead of letting everyone focus on the failures of Joe Biden, the more opportunities are created for the GOP to just screw this whole thing up."
12. Experiments against reality, deconstructed. "Understanding gender identity ideology as a male masochistic fetish serves to explain why it is that transactivists insist that trans-identifying males are the most oppressed and marginalized women."
13. First, do no harm. "Washington has serially underestimated the destabilizing role of its own military supremacy."
14. Recognize that you're being played. "Ultimately, nothing is more corrosive to the alliance of experts and victims than a growing belief that people are being victimized by experts."
17. That is why they fail. "Democrats seem more eager to appeal to the elite in Academia than in working with voters in their communities."
18. That gift from Hank Rearden. "So it’s a moral and political disaster that smartphone producers have made trillions? After getting smartphones to nearly everyone in the world in 14 years?"
19. Indeed. "A university that turns itself into an asylum from controversy has ceased to be a university; it has just become an asylum."
20. A must-read, indeed. "The present crisis in one sentence." That sentence? "Whenever the left feels they have lost control of an institution, they try to destroy it."
21. An entitled sponge interprets Bastiat's grand fiction. "We can support things we won't directly benefit from."
22. Politics divides. "[D]oes anyone think that we live in a world that particularly values sanity?"
23. Welcome back, Carter. "Do Americans need to fear a repeat of the early 1980s?"
24. When a government becomes unresponsive? "If you can't get the votes to exercise power through existing institutions, what makes you think you have enough popular support to overthrow the institutions themselves???"
25. We're done playing nice. "Man can pretend he (or she) can change into some eunuch-like passive priest, but at heart we are Vikings."
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