Pay attention to internal migration. "[Democrat-run states] are also beset with crime and homelessness, and they tend to have more oppressive, authoritarian governments, a fact that became evident during covid."
The weekly roundup of pithy elaborations of traditional Cold Spring Shops themes follows.
1. The loss of composure begins with the coaching staff. "We’ve got to be better, and we’ve got to learn from that because that is unacceptable."
2. Take sanity back. "If 'trans-women' really were women, wouldn’t some noted heterosexual date or marry one?"
3. Has this not always been the case? “School and classroom environments might indeed be adapted to traditionally female behaviours. Female students might thus adopt such actual behaviours during class, including precision, order, modesty, and quietness, which go beyond the individuals’ academic performance, but which teachers may highly reward in terms of grades.” Why the "boy problem" now?
4. Laws and norms. "Capitalism is premised on greed but also on guardrails."
5. Deconstruct logic at your peril. "Our trust in the accuracy of news and social media reports, of the studies of so-called medical experts and our elected officials and bureaucrats has been so degraded of late that it’s honestly hard to be certain of much."
6. Logic and content must carry the day. "It is precisely when people feel strongly that some things must be banned (either in general or from classrooms) that we need debate about whether the objections are indeed sound."
8. Woke catechism. "Woe to the student who suggests that systemic racism is unscientific since it is unfalsifiable."
9. Trust, but verify. "Shame on both Dr. Peter McCullough and Tucker Carlson for promoting a dubious narrative."
10. Bottom rail on top? "Over the past two years, activist district court judges have been issuing this kind of sweeping injunction of Biden’s policies, and even the laws of Congress, with alarming frequency." It's long been a thing for people, in or out of elected office, to whinge about unelected judges.
11. China. "I think we were just unprepared for this." Why should Chinese communism be any different from any other communism?
12. Indeed. "Paybacks aren't a bitch. Pelosi is."
13. Same sentiment, new simile. "My course syllabi are beginning to resemble the terms-of-service agreements that folks never read when they are updated."
14. The limits to consensus? "Even intelligent people learn to go along with what is conventional, [Richard J. Bernstein] explained, and they reject good philosophy."
16. Listen to Allan Bloom or Charlie Sykes or me or Richard Vedder. "However exaggerated, his claims need to be confronted, not ignored."
17. Government failure. "Since the Great Depression, our cities have been trapped in a Faustian bargain with State and Federal transportation-funding policies that elevate the car over more resource-efficient transit options, instead of letting them compete in an open market."
18. By the Jarrett regency's fruits: "America is declining by choice, not some inevitable historical force." Everywhere you look. "Public safety, border security, stable prices and quality public education are in decline, leaving many Americans angry about their government and cynical about the people who run it."
19. The tax code is there for a reason. "Trump is engaging in an activity that is very, very incentivized by our current tax code."
20. Oh, Canada? "Canadians are experiencing a three-word addition to what Ronald Reagan called the nine most terrifying words in the English language: 'I’m from the government, and I’m here to help you kill yourself.'"
21. Buckwheat. "Simply too awful to ignore"
22. Exit is a powerful spur. "Businesses know that and, unless they’re bailed out by governments, they need to take that into account."
23. The leper's bell. "The easiest identifier of modern self-styled “progressives” is that they really, really want to run other people’s lives." Generally badly.
24. Let those self-styled progressives tremble. "When the public decides it's tired of being shat on by progressive educational elites who take their money and use it to alienate their children from them, and to create a society in which many of them are marginalized, and decides to do something about it as regards a tiny public liberal arts school in Florida -- well, golly, Attila the Hun is at the gates."
25. Amen. "Resilience is an investment in long-term shareholder value."
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