Would enjoy that as a Bond scene

this is a genuinely great idea

"Well well well, not so easy to have a democratic collapse that 'makes logical sense' and 'does not require everyone to be their stupidest possible self to even happen' after all, is it?" -George Lucas, somewhere

Well Kevin you’re talking about a department that was created to enforce civil rights law, not

He says he was shamed for using a phrase that evoked the genocide of Native Americans

But yes, he should have been shamed for mixed metaphors.

that’s the occasion

Hurricane Nana thinks you should eat a little

The thing about that Washington painting behind him:

“Washington wanted to make sure that his troops were not affected by disease, and he believed that inoculation would help with that. So, just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers.”

Jerry Seinfeld looking quizzical, standing next to a wooden cigar-store Indian statue, from an episode that lightly mocked Jerry for often, unthinkingly, perpetuating stereotypes of Native people

true but also labor theorists are scarce in business schools

I mean to be fair he claims he got scolded for using the phrase "circling the wagons" at a faculty meeting, so that's anecdata

I'm sure they would accept *this* vague and unsubstantiated assertion

this sentence is the whole of this article and it rests on air

and what issues

"Despite our rhetorical commitment to 'critical thinking,' we typically present one side of an issue — the left-wing side, almost always — and call it a day."

let me stop you right there; who's "we"

everyone who's ever had an associate dean tell them they couldn't get co-sponsorship money for a talk is ready to explain that academia is intrinsically corrupt

I hope Tim feels good about his strategy

It’s the Moffat Method

Though I do love The Sting, what a delightful movie

For years I could watch The Big Sleep every so often without fully remembering it (maybe I still could) but the experience I’d want afresh probably isn’t a twist; it’s probably the pace and the “and then you won’t believe THIS happens” of Raiders of the Lost Ark, or something similar

I study racist politicians from the Jim Crow era and this is on par with anything that John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo, or Cotton Ed Smith ever said in public

A message to Sickos abandoning All-American Alcohol for the Latest Fad “420 Day”:

Just because you CANnabis doesn't mean you SHOULDabis.

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No paper of yours is more than I want to know, Mark

For more than you want to know about Shlaes’s accuracy, see “Epistemic Closure and the Schechter Case,” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

And immensely popular in what was largely a hostile media environment.

This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

The ‘Weaponization Working Group’ Makes Its First Move A new DOJ report purports to show bias under the Biden administration—and fails spectacularly.

The much-vaunted DOJ "Weaponization Working Group" released its very first report last week on supposed DOJ abuses under the Biden administration. The report shows ... not very much.

also because it mysteriously doesn’t work for liberals

would you say it is just around the corner, or at the end of the tunnel maybe

The Must-Have Item in Silicon Valley Is a $178 Sweater With a CEO’s Face Leaders at companies from Nvidia to Palantir are now driving fashion, signaling a new era of the cult of the founder.

My “I am a toadying lickspittle” sweater is raising questions answered by my sweater

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