There is a ton of chatter amongst the élite where everyone in finance/tech knows that the current admin is about to incinerate everything that allows private industry to proliferate, but their wives will divorce them if they vote for Trump. It’s not an enviable place to be in.

Women are passionate about social justice.

A certain kind of elite American desperately wants to see a mirror image of themselves in Chinese technocrats, only to discover they’re nationalists not globalists. Every time.

If the cost of rectifying an injustice is the destruction of a civilization, is it worth it?

The West has asked this question many times and occasionally answered yes.

Leftism makes a principle of the conundrum, such that rectifying injustice requires destroying civilization.

In Foreign Policy, I argue that it may be helpful for U.S. policymakers to understand problems with our defense industrial base primarily in political, rather than technical, terms.

foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/26/def…

Population decline? What kind of population? Job growth? What sort of jobs? Please be specific and show your work.

A lot of adjectives are annoying but we need more of them; pernicious people are using abstract nouns to preempt rigorous debate.

Though I guess a they/them can be an alumni?

People will put their pronouns in bio and still get alumnus/alumna wrong.

An Axis of Upheaval, you say?

“‘The wines were too various,’ he said: ‘it was neither the quality nor the quantity that was at fault. It was the mixture. Grasp that and you have the root of the matter. To understand all is to forgive all.’”

You're right. It's not fair of me to say, 'No one is at the wheel. No one is in charge.' Empty suits and empty heads are in nominal steering roles.

Fascinating description of what democratic success and political equality mean to the New York Times. Extraordinary.

Enough is enough.

There are videos on Twitter of children being exploited with millions of views.

Every normal interaction is spammed with porn.

Enough dancing around the problem.

It's time for Elon Musk to #BanAllPorn

>Pastor preaches a sermon with political implications.
>“You’re not allowed to do that. Stick to the gospel.”
>Christian political theorist presents a Christian political theory.
>“You’re not allowed to do that. You’re not a pastor.”

Bipartisan blinkers on the American church.

every. single. time.

I am incredibly proud of being one of the founding signatories of the AGOGE statement.

Care to join me?

agogeclassical.org/statements

It’s time to repost one of my favorite tweets ever

You have to have lived in the Beltway for ten years to be surprised by this.

Can concede there’s a lot of room for differences of opinion about smartphone adoption at a society level, or even by teenagers, but if someone needed a study to tell them smartphones are likely disruptive at schools—places for communal learning—and especially in the classroom,…

Too often, American foreign policy has led to the destruction of a historical Christian community. We are the world’s largest Christian majority country. Did any of us sign up for this?