Sunday Links

 A video of Ted Cruz getting quite exercised about the growing antisemitism on the right.  Good for him.

Highbrow Misinformation   Even without a subscription you can read the part about climate.

The highly-literate and abundantly fertile Psmiths cleverly review a book about why having children should be easier now but is harder. 

Also the Psmiths, reviewing The Real Korea   I did not know this.  Not even a little bit.

The quest for perfect communism was also assisted, ironically enough, by the fact that only half the peninsula was heading that way. In the first years of the two Koreas, the line of demarcation between them was very poorly guarded. This resulted in a vast demographic sorting, analogous to India’s partition, but far more thorough. Many of the most idealistic and educated South Koreans, who tended to harbor leftist and communist sympathies, headed North to create a worker’s paradise. This further added to North Korea’s human capital. Conversely, a torrent of former landlords, entrepreneurs, and Christian activists fled South.  

 Arctic Frost Is a Real Scandal, by Eli Lake.  I'm sure it is, but I think of Bullwinkle