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==Introduction==
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*[ https://www.takimag.com/article/putins-best-laid-plans/ /putins-best-laid-plans] by Steve Aailer (2022).
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*[https://twitter.com/AOHSUsometimesY/status/1454195267364958220 Do you know what your eight great-grandparents did for a living? Does anyone?] Twitter.
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*[https://worksthatwork.com/3/kongo-gumi "Building on Tradition — 1,400 Years of a Family Business"] by Irene Herrera "Before its liquidation, Kongō Gumi was the oldest continuously operating company in the world. Founded in Japan a mere century after the fall of the Roman Empire, it survived extreme changes in Japan’s culture, government and economy, preserving traditional construction techniques and family values for over 1,400 years."
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*[https://edition.thrillist.com/s/overrated-underrated-beef-36319cc36dbe4753 "The Most Overrated and Underrated Cuts of Beef, According to Chefs,"] Dan Gentile (November 9, 2021).
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*[[Mark Steyn Articles]]
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*[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/07/opinion/coronavirus-airborne-transmission.html?s=03  "Why Did It Take So Long to Accept the Facts About Covid?"] ''NY Times,'' May 7, 2021.
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*[https://www.chess.com/blog/Spektrowski/the-conspiracies-of-valery-salov-part-2 Valery Salov], one of the world's best chess players, thinks Hitler was part of a conspiracy to set up the nation of Israel,  that Jewish identity is a myth, and that the Kabbalah  explains a lot. Bobby Fischer too.
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==Economics==
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*[http://sims.princeton.edu/yftp/AngristPischkeJEP/AngristPischkeComment.pdf "COMMENT ON ANGRIST AND PISCHKE,"] CHRISTOPHER A. SIMS (2010). On econometrics, with special attention to macro and instrumental variables.
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*[https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3906201  "Discharging the Discharge for Value Defense,"] Eric Talley on Revlon Clauses in bank documents (2021).
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*[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/business/scholastic-iole-lucchese-succession-battle.html?mc=aud_dev&ad-keywords=auddevgate&subid1=TAFI&ad_id=B4ZRZ16I0DU6&adgroup_id=krkmk&campaign_id=gm8gj&twclid=11466436699664306188 "Inside the Real-Life Succession Battle at Scholastic: The powerhouse children’s publisher, known for Harry Potter, had been passed from father to son until Iole Lucchese, a top executive, was given control."] NYTimes (2021).
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==The Left==
 
==The Left==
*[https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-meet-the-sanitized-sleuths-known-as-the-hardy-boys-11615590355?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter]
 
  
*[https://lawliberty.org/forum/we-will-burn-and-loot-and-destroy-the-weather-underground-and-its-legacy/ “We Will Burn and Loot and Destroy”: The Weather Underground and Its Legacy,]
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*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/9/the-old-south-shall-rise-again "The Old South Shall Rise Again,] Victor Hanson, The New Criterion (2022). How Silicon Valley and the Antebellum South have many social parallels-- race obsession, poor infrastructure, great wealth, one-party rule, etc.
Jay Nordlinger, ''Law and Liberty'' (2021).
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*[https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/9/facing-the-music "Facing the music: On the decline of the WASP establishment,] by Wallace S. Moyle, The New Criterion, 2022.
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*[https://twitter.com/TheBabylonBee/status/1393914129547612160 "Tensions Rise In Middle East As One Side Wants To Kill Jews And The Other Side Are Jews Who Don't Want To Die And Neither Will Compromise"]
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*[https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2021/12/in-memory-of-my-late-brother-christopher-who-died-ten-years-ago-.html Peter Hitchens' memorial article on his brother, Christopher].
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*[https://babylonbee.com/news/people-have-been-thinking-all-white-men-are-terrible-but-it-turns-out-its-just-steve Horrible Steve], Babylon Bee (2021).
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*[https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-media-lied-repeatedly-about-officer "The Media Lied Repeatedly About Officer Brian Sicknick's Death. And They Just Got Caught,"]  Greenwald, on  the ''New York Times'''s bald lies about Officer Sicknick's death at the US Capitol (2021).
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*[https://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-seuss-meet-the-sanitized-sleuths-known-as-the-hardy-boys-11615590355?reflink=desktopwebshare_twitter  "Dr. Seuss, Meet the Sanitized Sleuths Known as the Hardy Boys; The detective novels got a rewrite in 1959. Was it a needed scrubbing or a sign of cancel culture?,"] WSJ.
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*[https://lawliberty.org/forum/we-will-burn-and-loot-and-destroy-the-weather-underground-and-its-legacy/ “We Will Burn and Loot and Destroy”: The Weather Underground and Its Legacy,] Jay Nordlinger, ''Law and Liberty'' (2021). The first part is informative, but towards the end he makes the ridiculous claim that the Right supported violence like the Left did in 2020, and that we all underestimate how much violence is on our side. No we don't. The media is Left, and biases us all towards underestimating Left violence and towards imagining Right violence. Nordlinger is Establishment, and so he doesn't like Trump and wants to smear him. Still, the first 4/5 of the article is good.  
  
 
*https://quillette.com/2021/03/12/the-threat-to-academic-freedom-from-anecdotes-to-data/
 
*https://quillette.com/2021/03/12/the-threat-to-academic-freedom-from-anecdotes-to-data/
  
*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/ "Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene:
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*[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/ "Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene: Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality— and then pretend to be engines of social change."] Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic'' (2021).  
Elite schools breed entitlement, entrench inequality—and then pretend to be engines of social change."] Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic'' (2021).  
 
  
* [ https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/charlie-browns-interior-christmas-adventure/617484/ ] Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic'' (2020).
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* [https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/12/charlie-browns-interior-christmas-adventure/617484/ Carlie-browns-interior-christmas-adventure] Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic'' (2020).
  
 
*[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/ "They Had It Coming: The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs."], Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic''  (2019).
 
*[https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/what-college-admissions-scandal-reveals/586468/ "They Had It Coming: The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs."], Caitlin Flanagan, ''The Atlantic''  (2019).
  
==Mark Steyn==
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==The Right==
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*[https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/  Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell"] Scott Alexander (2013).
  
{{Quotation| Here surely is an almost too perfect snapshot of a culture that simultaneously destroys childhood and infantilizes adulthood. The "child" in this vignette ought to be the ten-year-old boy, "hands up against the wall," but, instead, the "man" appropriates the child role for himself: Why, the graduate assistant is so "distraught" that he has to leave and telephone his father. He is pushing thirty, an age when previous generations would have had little boys of their own. But today, confronted by a grade-schooler being sodomized before his eyes, the poor distraught child-man approaching early middle-age seeks out some fatherly advice, like one of Fred MacMurray's "My Three Sons" might have done had he seen the boy next door swiping a can of soda pop from the lunch counter.
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*[https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/activist-milo-yiannopoulos-is-now-ex-gay-consecrating-his-life-to-st-joseph "Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. JosephActivist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph,"] (2021),
  
The graduate assistant pushing thirty, Mike McQueary, is now pushing forty, and is sufficiently grown-up to realize that the portrait of him that emerges from the indictment is not to his credit and to attempt, privately, to modify it. "No one can imagine my thoughts or wants to be in my shoes for those 30-45 seconds," he emailed a friend a few days ago. "Trust me."
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*[https://cspicenter.org/blog/waronscience/will-zemmour-bring-a-right-wing-revolution-in-france/  "will-zemmour-bring-a-right-wing-revolution-in-france/"] (2021)
  
"Trust me"? Maybe the ten-year-old boy did. And then watched Mr. McQueary leave the building. Perhaps the child-man should try "imagining" the ten-year-old's thoughts or being in his shoes.
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==Miscellaneous==
*[https://www.steynonline.com/11000/penn-state-institutional-wickedness "Penn State's Institutional Wickedness,"] (2021).
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*[https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463 Personality disorders]," Mayo Clinic description of the three clusters, euphemistically called A, B, and C. Are they psychotics, sociopaths, and neurotics?
  
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*[https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/how-polyester-bounced-back/ Virginia Postrel on polyester] (2022)
A society that no longer understands that distinction is in deep trouble. To argue that a man witnessing child sex in progress has no responsibility other than to comply with procedures and report it to a colleague further up the chain of command represents a near-suicidal loss of that distinction.
 
  
A land of hyperlegalisms is not the same as a land of law. When people get used to complying with microregulations and "procedures", it's but a small step to confusing "compliance with procedures" with the right thing to do – and then arguing that, in the absence of regulatory guidelines, there is no "right thing to do."
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*[https://variety.com/lists/godzilla-movies-ranked/godzilla-vs-megalon-1973/?cx_testId=48&cx_testVariant=cx_1&cx_artPos=3#cxrecs_s "All the Godzilla Movies Ranked,"] ''Variety,''  Matthew Cherno (2021).
  
In a hyperlegalistic culture, Penn State's collaborators may have the law on their side. But there is no moral liability waiver.}}
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*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-the-new-sultan?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNTgzNTMyMiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzM4ODk4NzksIl8iOiJCMEpCZiIsImlhdCI6MTYxNzY2MTIyNiwiZXhwIjoxNjE3NjY0ODI2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItODkxMjAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.zreo3nLvdp-RAW2M6N8clsJL0jyru0GA7yew_HX_bnk "Book Review: The New Sultan| Summary and commentary on Soner Cagaptay's "The New Sultan: Erdogan And The Crisis Of Modern Turkey,"] ''Astral Codex Ten'' (2021).
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==The Right==
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*[https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/your-book-review-on-the-natural-faculties?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoxNTgzNTMyMiwicG9zdF9pZCI6MzQ5MjY3NjcsIl8iOiJCMEpCZiIsImlhdCI6MTYxODM1MjU3MiwiZXhwIjoxNjE4MzU2MTcyLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItODkxMjAiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.f8FUl_PJpxOjqLOlI0hhc_DFZKLEVO-7OyLUH4IVlIo "Your Book Review: On The Natural Faculties,"] on Galen. Very good, pleasant reading.  
*[https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy-in-an-enormous-planet-sized-nutshell/  Reactionary Philosophy In An Enormous, Planet-Sized Nutshell"] Scott Alexander (2013).  
 
  
*[https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/activist-milo-yiannopoulos-is-now-ex-gay-consecrating-his-life-to-st-joseph "Activist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. JosephActivist Milo Yiannopoulos is now ‘Ex-Gay,’ consecrating his life to St. Joseph,"] (2021),
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*[http://www.gwlr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/79-6-Breyer.pdf "The Uneasy Case for Copyright: A Look Back Across Four Decades,"]  Stephen G. Breyer.
  
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*[https://everywhereist.com/2021/12/bros-restaurant-lecce-we-eat-at-the-worst-michelin-starred-restaurant-ever/ Bros in Lecce review], a very bad tasting menu.
  
==Miscellaneous==
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*[https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/personality-disorders/symptoms-causes/syc-20354463 Personality disorders], Mayo Clinic description of the three clusters, euphemistically called A, B, and C. Are they psychotics, sociopaths, and neurotics?
 
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Revision as of 15:34, 6 September 2022

Introduction

  • "Building on Tradition — 1,400 Years of a Family Business" by Irene Herrera "Before its liquidation, Kongō Gumi was the oldest continuously operating company in the world. Founded in Japan a mere century after the fall of the Roman Empire, it survived extreme changes in Japan’s culture, government and economy, preserving traditional construction techniques and family values for over 1,400 years."
  • Valery Salov, one of the world's best chess players, thinks Hitler was part of a conspiracy to set up the nation of Israel, that Jewish identity is a myth, and that the Kabbalah explains a lot. Bobby Fischer too.



Economics


The Left

  • "The Old South Shall Rise Again, Victor Hanson, The New Criterion (2022). How Silicon Valley and the Antebellum South have many social parallels-- race obsession, poor infrastructure, great wealth, one-party rule, etc.
  • “We Will Burn and Loot and Destroy”: The Weather Underground and Its Legacy, Jay Nordlinger, Law and Liberty (2021). The first part is informative, but towards the end he makes the ridiculous claim that the Right supported violence like the Left did in 2020, and that we all underestimate how much violence is on our side. No we don't. The media is Left, and biases us all towards underestimating Left violence and towards imagining Right violence. Nordlinger is Establishment, and so he doesn't like Trump and wants to smear him. Still, the first 4/5 of the article is good.

The Right


Miscellaneous

  • Personality disorders," Mayo Clinic description of the three clusters, euphemistically called A, B, and C. Are they psychotics, sociopaths, and neurotics?