Bigot or Tribalist?
There’s a world of difference between these three things: hating persons who are different because they’re different fearing persons of a certain type because that type is highly correlated with danger...
View ArticleHow America Has Changed
I believe that the morals and the mores of a populace change observably over time. That’s certainly true of Americans, even if it isn’t true of, say, many tribal peoples of distant lands. This post...
View ArticleAnother Thought or Two about Class
My recent post, “Class in America,” offers a straightforward taxonomy of the socioeconomic pecking order in the United States. The post doesn’t address the dynamics of movement between classes, so I...
View ArticleThe Left and Evergreen State: Reaping What Was Sown
Tiana Lowe writes with misguided enthusiasm at National Review: In the past fortnight, the Evergreen State College mob has incited violence against a professor, gotten said professor, Bret Weinstein,...
View ArticleRacism on Parade
There has been much ado about an article by lawprofs Amy Wax (University of Pennsylvania) and Larry Alexander (University of San Diego), “Paying the Price for the Breakdown of the Country’s Bourgeois...
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How’s Your (Implicit) Attitude?
I was unaware of the Implicit Association Test (IAT) until a few years ago, when I took a test at YourMorals.Org that purported to measure my implicit racial preferences. I’ll say more about that after...
View ArticleDemocrat Values
Virginia’s Democrat governor, Ralph Northam, is under fire from Democrats for (perhaps) having harbored racist thoughts 35 years ago, when he was 25 years old. He is not under fire from Democrats for...
View ArticleIt’s the 1960s Redux
The death of George Floyd, which was caused (if only indirectly) by a member of the Minneapolis Police Department, has met with predictable reactions: 1. Trump is to blame for creating an “atmosphere...
View ArticleRegarding the Verdict in the Chauvin Trial
What I said here still applies. And … regardless of the justice or injustice of the verdict, cops will be further demoralized and thugs will be further emboldened by it. Look for less law and order in...
View ArticleHow Two Wrongs (Do Not) Make a Right
The essential aim of Black Lives Matter and its many allies in the woke-o-sphere is to serve a hot, heaping dish of revenge to whites who meet certain specifications (non-woke, straight, white, male,...
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