Maggie's Farm

AVI:

Earnest young Christian writers (males more than females, perhaps) wring their hands over discovering materialism* and pride - even in themselves.  In this they demonstrate that they totally get it, and understand, and aren't really judging at all, clearing the battle space for denunciation. Double bonus points - you get to demonstrate after how many mattresses you can still detect this pea.  Prejudice is another big-ticket item.  We all have prejudices that we don't want to admit.  Even I have a cute anecdote that I shake my head ruefully at in feigned humility before condemning all you racist bastards. Being part of the system and all that.

Patients in Pain, and a Doctor Who Must Limit Drugs

Murray: An open letter to the Virginia Tech community.

I have been reluctant to spend so much space discussing The Bell Curve’s treatment of race and intelligence because it was such an ancillary topic in the book. Focusing on it in this letter has probably made it sound as if it was as important as President Sands’s open letter implied.

But I had to do it. For two decades, I have had to put up with misrepresentations of The Bell Curve. It is annoying. After so long, when so many of the book’s main arguments have been so dramatically vindicated by events, and when our presentations of the meaning and role of IQ have been so steadily reinforced by subsequent research in the social sciences, not to mention developments in neuroscience and genetics, President Sands’s casual accusation that our work has been “largely discredited” was especially exasperating. The president of a distinguished university should take more care.

Colleges Are All For Diversity — Except When It Comes To Ideas

Impaled On Its Own Petard——The Fed’s Folly Festers Further

The EU and climate:  "Watching the increasingly farcical antics of Europe’s ruling class, I
wonder if this is what it must have been like in the dying days of the
Roman Empire."

The Donald’s Big Tent - Into it come blue-collar Dems, out of it go neocons.

Stamina - Trump’s Lingistic Kill Shot for Clinton

Krauthammer:  "The immediate conventional wisdom was to blame the disturbance on the
“toxic environment” created by Trump. Nonsense. This was an act of
deliberate sabotage created by a totalitarian left..."

Krauthammer: I Was Wrong for Laughing at Trump… Democrats Are Worried

Trumpophobia:  Around world, doubts whether Trump could 'make America great again'

The Obama Doctrine