Time to Re-Watch

 

Apology

Neil Shenvi

@NeilShenvi

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I would like to apologize for posting direct quotes and screenshots from primary sources and for offering to engage in reasoned dialogue. Twitter is not a place for this kind of behavior and I promise to do better.

Assessing Risks

 Commentary magazine: Noah Rothman on assessing risks. An excerpt:

Over the weekend, Wakana tore into reporting from the Washington Post and the New York Times for declining to properly contextualize the relative risk assumed by fully vaccinated Americans who chose to leave their houses. He attacked the “irresponsible” failure to note that the rate of COVID-19 transmission to and from vaccinated individuals is “VERY SMALL.” But these venues did little more than disseminate the data cited by the administration’s own public health apparatus to justify the resumption of indoor mask mandates.

Empathy

This is an invitation to basic human empathy. Human empathy, assiduously cultivated, is probably the best anti-racism program we’ve got.

- Glenn Loury in the inaugural edition of the Journal of Free Black Thought.

The Often Delayed Bond Film

 

GM Billboard

 

Going After the Orchestras

City Journal: Heather Mac Donald examines the racial attacks on classical music.

The Fact That You Can Do It Doesn't Mean You Should Do It

 Each time a manager does work which once would have gone to a secretary, the organization has just lost a manager and gained a secretary. 

A highly-paid "secretary" who is not as competent as a real secretary.

I know of organizations where department heads are typing their own letters. 

[They think I am a dinosaur when I talk about dictating letters.]

How to Sink a Nation

1. Stress ethnic or racial identity over national identity.
2. Tell the young that their hopes of succeeding are hollow because the entire system is rigged against them.
3. Celebrate anti-heroes and mock real heroes.
4. Push self-esteem over hard work.
5. Favor timidity over courage.
6. Foster instant gratification.
7. Replace conversations with brief and quickly-issued judgments.
8. Limit freedom of speech.
9. Expand envy.
10. Decrease gratitude.
11. Shrink attention-spans.
12. Denounce people for not meeting impossible standards.
13. Rarely give the benefit of the doubt.
14. Make politics a religion.
15. Seek utopia.

Find Something Beautiful Today

[Photo by Patrick Tomasso at Unsplash]