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https://www.unz.com/article/national-unity-is-a-mirage-we-must-understand-that-or-perish/ Now, after what may have been a racially-motivated mass shooting in Buffalo (May 14) by a deranged young man, new insistent calls go out for the government to fight…
https://www.unz.com/proberts/the-social-credit-system-is-the-elites-means-of-control/ Duff Cooper, Viscount Norwich, was the only British minister who resigned over the Munich Agreement of 1938. His autobiography was titled Old Men Forget. I expect they do, but…
Catherine Thimmesh in Delancey Place: “Their voices were rapid-fire. Crisp. Assured. There was no hesitation. But you could practically hear the adrenaline rushing in their vocal tones, practically hear the…
https://3quarksdaily.com/3quarksdaily/2022/05/war-by-another-name-sanctions-are-not-a-gentler-alternative-to-conflict.html Joshua Craze in The Baffler, with photographic collages by Wolf Böwig: The use of sanctions doubled in the decade following 2000, while their rate of success plummeted. The Global…
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/05/podcast-episode-philosopher-king Computer scientists often build algorithms with a keen focus on “solving the problem,” without considering the larger implications and potential misuses of the technology they’re creating. That’s how we…
https://qr.ae/pvYmAY We should never test someone’s patience in life, whether he or she is a humble, friendly or even a timid person, What I mean by testing someone’s patience is…
iwona_podlasinska taken last summer on a lovely but a little chilly evening
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/05/in-defense-of-extremism.html That is my latest Bloomberg column, the argument is super-simple: Calling something “extremist” is not an effective critique. It’s a sign that the speaker or writer either doesn’t want…