Grim did compile a list of likely effective gun control measures a few weeks ago, and ones that Second Amendment purists could sign off on. But I still think this is funny from a decade ago. Yes Virginia, There Is Some Effective Gun Control.
The baby bust and partisanship
Strong female partisanship is an important part of the story. In the United States, women have stronger partisan identities than do men. Women are also more polarized than men in their partisan affect, liking their own party and disliking the other more strongly. This gender gap is wholly caused by white female Democrats, however; black women and men show no differences in polarization, and Republican women and men show none, either.
Communal Narcissism Rotate the traditional definition of narcissism - I am the smartest, most popular, most dominant - ninety degrees and you get the communal narcissist - I am the most moral, the most helpful. But are they? Do they walk the walk?
When I was a boy, my social studies book would call them Laplanders, or Lapps, a remote exotic people that somehow lived off reindeer herding. Now my son knows a few Sami in Norway, where dried fish is as important as reindeer to their sustenance. Nomads to Natives tells their ancestry
From the Arthurian site I linked to about a week ago, The Northern Arthur. He dismisses the theory I had repeated about five years ago that "Arthur" was a title rather than a given name. Bernard Mees is coming at the historical record as a linguist, noticing differences in endings and spelling that are usually overlooked, and using these to place Arthur in region and time.
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Do you mean this link? https://ageofarthur.substack.com/p/the-northern-arthur
Yes. Thank you.
I agree with the assessment; in my Arthurian novel, I located Arthur and his comrades in the north, drifting into the Caledonian forest at times, referencing Luguvalium and Chester as 'the City of Legions.'
About the baby bust and partisanship article. I highly recommend the movie "Birthgap," available on Youtube. Stephen Shaw observes in Birthgap that the drop in fertility is due to the rise in "never marrieds." Married couples are having the same number of children as before.
There's a line of argument in articles that assumes that as young women become more progressive, young men must cater to them. I don't think that's true.
Think of all the young women posting video of themselves celebrating Charlie Kirk's death. Independent of one's political party, would you want to spend the rest of your life with such a person at Thanksgiving and Christmas as a family members, let alone being married to her? It is better not to get married at all than to yoke yourself to someone that unbalanced.
The communal narcissism link brought to my mind the empathy discussions.
@Cranberry - I have seen that slicing of the data as well over the last year or so and it makes sense. The drop off from nine children to three children among marrieds is real but occurred a long time ago. Marrieds are having almost as many as they did in 1985, but there are fewer of them now. As for your last point, it is a source of pain for me. Our youngest son of five is 29 and he has it all. Good paying job, very good looking (especially in the gym), very kind and devoted - and girls just don't want committed relationships. I was there for the beginning of this in the 1970s at fancy schools, but I never thought it would become this thorough.
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