Thanks to Roger De Hauteville, King of Sicily, who kept our morning links going over the past week and a half. Kings are busy people, and I am grateful to him for having given us the time and for sharing his talent for the rare, the odd, the enchanting, and the absurd.
Speaking of the absurd, I'm back to work on today's collection:
Important message from white men: We suck and we’re sorry
The Last Communist City - A visit to the dystopian Havana that tourists never see
Cuba isn’t a developing country; it’s a once-developed country destroyed by its own government. Havana was a magnificent Western city once. It should be compared not with Baghdad, Kabul, Guatemala City, or Port-au-Prince but with formerly Communist Budapest, Prague, or Berlin. Havana’s history mirrors theirs, after all.
Trigger Warnings, Campus Speech, and the Right to Not Be Offended
The Koch brothers: What can’t they do?
Who Really Created the ‘Rape Culture’? The cultural Left has encouraged the worst instincts among some young men
The Closing of the Collegiate Mind - Opponents of free speech have chalked up many campus victories lately as ideological conformity marches on.
Obama Administration Attacks Cross-Examination and Due Process Rights in Campus
Guidance
Marco Rubio Has Climate Denial, And Florida Is Dooooooomed From Sea Rise
Society Crumbles When It Takes Its Cues From The Underclass
On Paper - We choose not between Marx and Adam Smith but between the DMV and the Apple store.
Fear of Frankenfoods:
Tracked: May 13, 13:50