Quick Read
Most attention has been paid to the question of whom the state has mandated to wear masks (whether or not it has the authority), but an important point has to be made about Governor Dan McKee’s vaccine mandate for healthcare workers. Brian Amaral reports for the Boston Globe: If health care workers at state-licensed facilities in…
Reading about the many failures of our leading class and observing the continuing reluctance of our governing class and its supporters to acknowledge reality, I turned to the illustrated summary of Friedrich Hayek’s The Road to Serfdom. I’d say we are here: Follow the link above for step 10. Hayek was a thinker, not a prophet,…
The Boston Globe article to which I linked earlier made a point of citing one statistic from that irresponsible RI American Academy of Pediatrics letter: They said a recent study reports that nearly 5 percent of all COVID-infected children have lingering symptoms such as MIS-C, fatigue, and brain fog for more than four weeks after their…
Cards on the table: I do not want my children forced to wear masks in school. Apart from discomfort and health (including mental health), masks unarguably impede the ability to understand what people are saying and almost obliterate the ability to read facial expressions, which is absolutely critical to education, especially for younger children. Furthermore,…
The story of Morgan Bettinger at the University of Virginia, as Mairead McArdle describes it for the Daily Wire, is terrifying. Driving home on a Friday last summer, before her senior year, McArdle came upon a BLM-related roadblock. She got out of her car and chatted with “a city dump truck driver who was blocking the…
I’ve slipped a bit on my plan to have one of these essays on Dust in the Light each week — partly because my time has had to be spent elsewhere, and partly because they take longer to write than a typical post. This weekend, I took up the ideas of sacredness and meaning in life,…
Watching gubernatorial candidates Nellie Gorbea and Seth Magaziner (the Rhode Island Secretary of State and General Treasurer, respectively) turn top-down, executive-order-imposed mask mandates for school children into a political talking point is clarifying. They’re going after Governor Dan McKee because he did not mandate by executive order that every child must be masked upon their…
This is dreadful. Haunting. Soul shaking. Short video clips tell the story of people attempting to cling to the outside of airplanes to escape Afghanistan after the Biden administration’s inexcusable botching of troop withdrawals. The image immediately brings to mind the people who jumped or fell from the Twin Towers on 9/11/01. That day, and…
Glenn Reynolds is correct to say that the situation Joel Kotkin described in a recent American Mind essay “might as well be a foreign plot to weaken America.” Of course, it needn’t be that. Reducing the rigor of American education benefits not only our global adversaries, but also the people and institutions charged with conducting education…
Last night, I pondered Luis Daniel Munoz’s argument for a single-payer healthcare system on a recent State of the State episode. He’s a compelling speaker, and it all sounds so reasonable. Smart, well-meaning people can pick a model and give it a try. Experts will keep an eye on the program, and if it isn’t…
