Links to Keep You Busy While I am Gone

We leave early on the 5th to meet sons John-Adrian and Jocie, Chris and Maria (Nome and Tromso respectively) and the three youngest granddaughters in Orlando.  I am not much interested in Mouseworld or Universal, but I am interested in them.

Suggested by Razib 

An Apology for Philology Philology used to be the core of Classics, which has now been taken over by people who write things like "Through a combination of Audre Lorde’s Black queer lens and Paul Preciado’s trans scholarship on the dildo, I further argue that by imagining Simulus as Black, queer, and/or trans, the power imbalance between Simulus and Scybale is greatly reduced." Solveig Gold and Joshua Katz push back.  The criticisms of philology seem to be "Neutrality is impossible, it's all whiteness, and we'd rather talk about ourselves being fashionable." 

Religion in America has stopped declining, but is not rebounding, according to Pew Research 

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Peggy Sastre at Quillette has a three part series Darwinian Hereises about the longstanding crusades to cancel Napolean Chagnon, E.O. Wilson, and Randy Thornhill and Craig Palmer.  This includes death threat and kicking them out of academic societies as well as delisting their scholarship in hopes of making them invisible. 

 The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Idea Revisited. Edward Campbell at Unfashionable Truths replies to the comments on his socialism essay.  I linked to the last part of this previously.

As I explained in the original essay, the Nordics are not the examples many American socialists imagine. They aren’t evidence of socialism’s success; they’re evidence of capitalism’s success paired with unusually strong social cohesion.

Long before Scandinavia built modern welfare states, it spent centuries developing strong property rights, independent courts, high institutional trust, and vibrant trade networks. These countries built globally competitive private industries—shipping, timber, energy, engineering, technology—and produced companies like Maersk, IKEA, Volvo, Ericsson, and Novo Nordisk. They got rich first. Only after generations of market-driven prosperity did they construct generous social welfare systems. 

The Sweden Syndrome  What Swedes will deny is happening - except when it can't be ignored.