free speech

Hispanics: free speech doesn't matter

2020-05-27

An article in the Occidental Observer addresses the myth among some conservatives and think tanks, such as the Heritage Foundation or the Cato Institute, that Hispanics are “natural conservatives”:…

China

China: the West will abandon its values

2020-05-26

Article in the Global Times, China’s nationalistic mouthpiece. While complaining that the US is riling up international public opinion against China regarding the Hong Kong “security” law, the paper claims that […] The biggest pillar for Hong Kong’s status as an…

China

Hong Kong: A new Iron Curtain

2020-05-23

China’s recently announced “security law” in Hong Kong further subjugates the city to mainland rule. The mainland leftists understand that the dissent in Hong Kong is not going to die down by itself. If left unchecked, these kinds of “pro-democracy” protests (which are…

socialism

Solzhenitsyn trashes socialism at Harvard, 1978

2020-05-21

The Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, author of “The Gulag Archipelago,” and 1970 Nobel laureate, in a 1978 speech at Harvard. https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/alexandersolzhenitsynharvard.htm The speech is wide-ranging and some of it I agree with and some I don’t.…

systemic racism

Interracial homicide stats

2020-05-15

As the media does their best to stoke another moral panic about interracial homicides, it’s good to be reminded of the actual facts – statistics – regarding homicide in the US. From US News, 2016: Race and Homicide in America, by the Numbers The chart they included, based on FBI…

political polarization

Why we should all read things we disagree with

2020-05-11

From the (reliably left, btw) Guardian, July 2019: Think Republicans are disconnected from reality? It’s even worse among liberals From the article: […] But what’s startling is the further finding that higher education does not improve a person’s perceptions – and sometimes even hurts…