Universal Healthcare: The American Way Embracing free market solutions. It sounds great. I don't see who could sell the package without ceasing to be elected, though
Changing Norms to Fit The Narrative Tom Golden at Men Are Good, last of a four-part series on psychological research being bent to serve ideological needs. I had not heard of this particular inventory, but man, does it ring true.
Steve Stewart-Williams at NNN When Wokeness Kills. Links to the longer article by Megan McArdle
A Graveyard of Bad NYC Mayoral Narratives Musa al-Gharbi demonstrates that the narratives of both parties and sub-parties do not explain what was in. fact a banal election.
For those close enough to North Central MA, there is a Lenten study of The Return of the King at the CS Lewis Study Center in Feb-Mar on Wednesdays at 7. I may also go to the Thornton Wilder weekend conference in June. It surprised me to see it, because even though Wilder often uses Christian themes (especially in "The Skin of Our Teeth,") he is not usually regarded as a Christian writer. A bit heterodox at minimum. Outside the tent is more likely.
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The biggest problem I see is when people say they want to provide "universal healthcare" they don't mean broad access to necessary procedures at a reasonable cost with a backstop for catastrophic situations. They want unlimited access to anything vaguely health-related at zero out of pocket cost because that's what they've been told "all other advanced countries do."
I found the Mamdani election article to be underwhelming (maybe that is an indication of the election's banality). It got to be a pretty boring repetition of "A Democrat was always going to win", "there's very little difference between the two groups of voters except when it's something I want to highlight", and "An election with a sore loser from the primary running in the general is unusual, except when it isn't". Coming out of the gate pointing out the demo of voters in an off-year mayoral election is very different from a Presidential election, and then constantly comparing Mamdani and Cuomo's numbers to Kamala Harris's got to be a bit annoying. It also seemed a bit dissonant with the claim the election didn't provide much new information because the outcome was determined by people who you would expected to the most politically informed and motivated.
"When wokeness kills"...see my related post Conformity Kills:
https://chicagoboyz.net/archives/47318.html
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