Kristallnacht versus BLM
Goering (shouting): “Why did you not kill 200 Jews instead of destroying so many valuables!” Heydrich (defensively): “36 Jews were killed.” [Words uttered during ministerial discussion with a...
View ArticleHow does this ban fit with that rename?
It can be hard to keep the narrative consistent. It appears that BLM enthusiasts love anti-police murals but just hate the idea of a mural claiming that ‘Black preborn lives matter’. Evidently the...
View ArticleAre incentives better than commands – when the goal is fraud?
In the old days, Mayor Daley commanded his goons to “vote early, vote often” and Lyndon B. Johnson ordered his fixers to write down the vote tally required.. Etc. I think incentives work better than...
View ArticleTime for a name change?
Although much of the focus in the UK political reporting is on Boris Johnson’s government (the UK has gone into “Tier 5”, which is basically a lockdown in plain language), it is worth remembering that...
View ArticleAll who died on the 6th supported Trump. What else do we truly know?
Truth is the daughter of time. Meanwhile, what do we actually know about the events of the 6th? Ashli Babbitt died because she was shot. Three protestors died of medical emergencies (it happens in...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“The precautionary principle is a gigantic paternalistic arm around humanity to keep all risk at bay.” – Philip Johnston, Daily Telegraph. (Item behind paywall.) I have friends and relations in the EU...
View ArticleThe logic of absurdity
The authorities police their lockdown laws as if the virus was reliably woke and as reliably anti-Christian – as if PC protests had a mysterious immunity but a church service was sure to be a...
View ArticleBuy Large Mansions
1909: “Socialism … It’s a grand scheme. You work for the equal distribution of property and you start by collaring all you can and sitting on it.” P.G.Wodehouse (comic author), ‘Mike and Psmith’. 2021:...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“America innovates, China duplicates and Europe regulates.” – Jeremy Warner, Daily Telegraph, (behind paywall). (He is writing about the EU’s Precautionary Principle and generally silly approach to new...
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The ‘soft bigotry of low expectations’ is getting harder
Fifty years ago, the BBC screened a dramatised documentary series about the fight to abolish the slave trade. Even a year of the virus limiting new series, at a time of great BBC eagerness to talk...
View ArticleSamizdata quote of the day
“The `robber barons’ gave us railroads and public libraries. Zuck gave us Farmville and censorship.” – Glenn Reynolds, apropos criticisms of how Big Tech bosses such as Mark Zuckerberg carry on. For...
View ArticleCritical Race Theorist literally knows nothing
“They literally know nothing” was what Obama advisor Ben Rhodes said about the Obama-worshipping journalists he fooled into repeating his Iran-deal talking points. But those guys are left standing by...
View ArticleLess economy of truth, please: ‘Maths is Racist’– no, not even this
Teacher training in Louisville, Kentucky is succumbing to the woke bandwagon of “maths is racist”. I’ve already said what I wanted to say about “maths is racist” – but I noticed a remark of a...
View ArticleI could not have said it better myself
(Nor, indeed, have I ever yet said it as well.) as a law professor I try to see all sides of public and legal issues, and in my teaching and writing to present the best case for each contesting view in...
View ArticleI think he needs to get out more
Specifically, out of the bubble more. “no one saw this coming” (Dominic Raab, UK Foreign Secretary) One of many things ‘no one’ saw was the inverse analogy with Iran sending back the hostages just as...
View ArticleBeware the prepared PC put-down
“But despite that [her years of experience]”, the lady said, “I still had to get re-certified. It started with an equality and diversity test, and I got the first question wrong.” “Everyone does”, said...
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Laughing apart
Ten men acting together can make a hundred thousand tremble apart. Three weeks ago Saturday, the FBI were out in undercover force at the ‘JusticeForJan6th’ rally – and looking lonely, since everyone...
View ArticleThe Life of Brian Transcribed
On Friday September 3rd, an event was held at the headquarters of the Institute of Economic Affairs in Lord North Street, London, in honour of our own Brian Micklethwait. This event was announced...
View ArticleMerrick Garland and the Babski Bunty
‘Babski Bunty’ translates as ‘Women’s Rebellions’ – but don’t expect to find too many accounts of them in radical feminist writings. The history of an actual rebellion movement against men with guns...
View ArticleIs Omarova evil (and stupid) or stupid (and evil)?
In 1989, Boris Yeltsin visited a supermarket in Texas (in the past, such things were reported even in the NYT): “When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of...
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