I talked to Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky about space a few weeks ago. Here is the result. Note that Jeff Greason (whose name I gave them) is quoted as well.
[Update a while later]
And my piece on what Israel can do in space is up.
…turns out to be a false myth.
So much for that broken arrow in the degrowthers’ quiver.
David Sacks is predicting one. I’m sure that there have been a lot of stealth Republicans there for a long time (as there are in LA), but once the dam breaks, they can come out in public.
How it became our purgatory.
It’s quite a list.
Why Biden is losing them.
Well, he’s a terrible human being, and a terrible president, but other than that, I can’t imagine why.
Jim Meigs describes the sordid history:
…our public health officials, abetted by a politicized media, manufactured an airtight consensus on both Covid science and policy. This consensus was largely immune to scientific evidence or concerns about the real-world impacts of draconian policies.
But not everyone joined the lockstep march on Covid. Stanford University’s Jay Bhattacharya, along with two other public health experts, issued the Great Barrington Declaration. It sensibly argued that the social costs of extended lockdowns far exceeded their mostly hypothetical benefits. The Great Barrington argument was derided in the press and secretly censored on social media at the behest of government officials.
And no one has been held accountable, even at the polls. At a minimum, Fauci should be indicted for perjury to Congress, though that’s hardly the worst of his sins. But nothing will happen to him until we get an Attorney General who cares about the law and the Constitution.
A disturbing and dismaying perspective from Niall Ferguson.
Another parallel is the modern version of Lysenkoism with nutrition, climate, and covid.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Niall Ferguson is right.
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An interesting interview by Ross Douthat. I do think it provides useful insight into Trump.
[Update Monday afternoon]
Here is the Brit Hum post where I found the link, that allowed me to read the interview:
This is long but very much worth reading. It may be the best defense of Trump (and Vance) I have read. https://t.co/FgidWMTRJG
— Brit Hume (@brithume) June 16, 2024
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We’re not buying what they’re selling.
The average age of our two cars is seventeen years. I might buy something newer if my finances dramatically improved, but I’m also leery of all of the “features” in the newer cars. When I look at new car prices, I think about what I could do with the (2000) BMW if I put two or three thousand into it, especially given how new stick shifts are an endangered species.
I hope that SCOTUS will force a rollback of all the illegal mandates coming from Washington.