I may get tired of this, but these still spark interest. In me, that's who.
This was originally in Foreign Affairs in 2008, but is now in their archives. I found another copy of Us and Them and pass it along to you. It is about ethnic nationalism,ans seems even more on-point now.
The petition about the Unsettled Nature of Climate Change from five years ago. As we have discussed here, the wording makes a big difference. When one asks "Do you think there's any climate change and do you think humans have anything to do with it?" you get a lot of assent. Yet if you ask "Do you think there is convincing scientific evidence there is going to be catastrophic heating?" then the switch is flipped. May 2014
Christina Hoff Sommers 5 Feminist Myths That Will Not Die. The odd thing is that it's Time magazine. I keep thinking about James experience comparing Little Rock 1957 and Little Rock 1972, and how quickly things can change in a culture. I will be writing about it when I can get my thoughts straight. Compared to when feminism came onto the scene in the late 1960s, feminism has unquestionably won, in terms of what people believe now. The best evidence of this is that the arguments now are between various types of accepted feminists and the heretical feminists like Sommers or Paglia. June 2016.
Cognitive Ability and Party Identity. Boy, I forgot this was there, and could have used it a few times since. November 2014
I seem to have followed up on climate change articles a lot more a few years ago than I do now. The Climate Wars' Damage to Science. June 2015
The Secret History of Silicon Valley. A long but fascinating series by Steve Blank. Originally March 2009.
The Secret Roots of Liberation Theology, by Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking defector from the Soviet Union, ever. April 2015.
Inequality Myths Cato Institute. May 2014.
The Economics of Political Correctness. UK site. I now mentally cross out the phrase "Political Correctness" and scribble in "Blasphemy Laws." April 2014
There's Something About Teutonics. Those Who Can See. An HBD site. November 2014
5 comments:
Of course the argument over "Climate Change" continues. #1, the climate is always changing,verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry sloooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowly, and there's money to be made from the Democrats who insist "we're all gonna dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee" if something/anything/everydamnthing is NOT done.
It's "6 Feminist Myths." Sheesh, you men, you never can learn to be comfortable with numbers.
Centuries ago, when I was becoming a lifelong feminist, we never talked about how disadvantaged women were, only about opportunities we worried would be rigidly denied to us. Over the years, most of the restrictions on entry were erased. Now it's becoming increasingly difficult to find things to complain about, especially things that can be blamed on the patriarchy. Don't get me wrong, I still think men and women entertain bizarre and unhelpful notions about each other, and that we'd all be better opening our eyes to the real qualities of individuals rather than the assumed qualities of type. I just can't get worked up over much injustice.
You sound like a heretical feminist.
The url says 5 feminist myths, the title says 6. Maybe CHS added one late. There are six in the article, so that's the right number. I think I'll leave it unchanged, though, just for contrariness.
You male white people aren't supposed to be able to tolerate ambiguity.
Secret Roots of Liberation Theology
This book has an interesting angle on Reds and the Roman Catholic church. Murder in the Vatican: The CIA and the Bolshevik Pontiff.
Claudio Veliz wrote The True Genesis of Amnesty International.
From the Inequality Myths link:
Greater inequality necessarily means greater poverty. Although it is a virtual matter of faith on the Left that the poor are poor because the rich are rich, there is little correlation between poverty rates and inequality. Poverty rates have sometimes risen during periods of relatively stable levels of inequality and declined during times of rising inequality.
I tested that with Latin America, with two exceptions: Cuba and Venezuela. The World Bank doesn't have inequality/GINI or poverty stats for Cuba. Its most current GINI stats for Venezuela are from 2006; poverty stats end at 2015. While one could estimate poverty for Venezuela- I have seen 80% as an estimate- GINI/inequality is a big guess. Running correlations of GINI/inequality with various poverty stats, I got 0.1 and -0.007. Which is no correlation.
BTW, that's Teutonics, NOT Tectonics.
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