Saturday, April 26, 2025
Decision Making Techniques
All decision-makers should be wary of The Three Options Trap.
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Friday, April 25, 2025
The Road to Campus Serfdom
Ironically, the left, now alarmed by the federal government’s intrusive reach, bears direct responsibility for crafting the very legal weapons wielded against the universities it dominates. Almost four decades ago, progressive legislators demanded sweeping amendments to civil rights law, expanding federal oversight over higher education. The sequence of events reveals a cautionary tale of political hubris: progressive confidence that state power would reliably serve their ends overlooked the reality that governmental authority, once unleashed, recognizes no ideological master. Today’s circumstances starkly illustrate how expansive federal control over civil society, originally celebrated by progressives, returns to haunt its architects. The left’s outrage ought to focus not on this particular administration but on its own reckless empowerment of the state.
Read the rest of the column by John O. McGinnis here.
Silicon Valley's Bespoke Child Making
They are also enthusiastically destroying an ethical consensus in this country that has tenuously held for some time: the idea that playing God with the human genome is a dangerous thing to do, with likely serious unintended consequences. And they are lying to their customers, to whom they are promising they have powers of prediction that they do not yet possess.
Read all of Christine Rosen's Commentary magazine article here.
A Failed Nation
National loyalty is not known everywhere in the world. And it is not known in the places where Islamists are rooted. Consider Somalia. People sometimes refer to Somalia as a 'failed state', since it has no central government capable of making decisions on behalf of the people as a whole, or of imposing any kind of legal order. But the real trouble with Somalia is that it is a failed nation. It has never developed the kind of secular, territorial and law-minded loyalty that makes it possible for a country to shape itself as a nation state rather than an assembly of competing tribes and families.
- Roger Scruton, Confessions of a Heretic
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