Seeing recent headlines like “woman catches fire on NY subway” and “a car was driven into a market” shows how identity politics is having a chilling effect on truthful dissemination of information. Let’s talk about how.
— Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن (@elicalebon) December 23, 2024
Ordinarily, these headlines would be written in active… pic.twitter.com/JetXBpU5bk
Category Archives: Social Commentary
Crime Rates In Britain
An interesting history:
By the 1500s, England's murder rate was lower than the murder rate in modern-day Africa 🏴
— Sam Bidwell (@sam_bidwell) December 23, 2024
And by the 20th century, Britain was one of the least violent societies on Earth – but why was this the case?
A 🧵 on the history of how England crushed crime pic.twitter.com/uripa0j2Eu
Tonsils
Can removing them cause anxiety later in life?
I still have mine, and I suspect that a lot of these procedures (if not all of them) are unnecessary and even harmful.
Ireland’s Hatred For Israel
I hadn’t been aware of the degree of anti-Semitism in the Emerald Isle. It makes me less inclined to want to revisit it.
The Years Of Madness
Are they (finally) ending? Many seem to think so.
Team Players And Groupthink
An interesting discussion that has great explanatory power (including perhaps the most recent election results).
What Are They, and Whose?
Four possible drone explanations.
Related thoughts from Roger Kimball.
Irish Anti-Semitism
Sadly, it’s not a new thing.
If you re interested in why Ireland is so weirdly, unreasonably antisemitic and antiIsrael, here is some of the answer….
— S Sebag Montefiore (@simonmontefiore) December 16, 2024
In 1997, I made a tv series @Channel4 about Ireland, Irish nationalism and antisemitism. It happened that my own family were Jewish immigrants to…
The American University
…is rotting from within. And it’s been doing so for decades, and the stench is starting to get overwhelming.
The Fate We Avoided
From Marc Andreeson.
A glimpse into @pmarca’s alternate timeline that we barely avoided
— Shaun Maguire (@shaunmmaguire) December 11, 2024
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BTW, I’m in DC this week at events, so posting will be light.