Blue v. Red
Something about this tweet from Bill Bartholomew is more striking than it should be: I’m not sure whether it’s better or worse if Bartholomew actually believes what he says or is just playing a role. The absolutely most negative interpretation that actually makes sense about the people Bartholomew dislikes is that they don’t care about you,…
At the risk of arriving late to the news cycle of a couple weeks ago on the hierarchies of love, I wanted to offer an adjustment to Matt Walsh’s perspective, with which I mostly agree: The point is well taken that it’s easier to love “people” in the abstract than to love particular people (particularly…
There is a Presidential popular vote chart getting a lot of attention out there that seems to show a big drop in Democratic votes from 2020 to 2024. However, as pointed out by Dan McLaughlin, I think people are getting over their skis before all of the data is in. I thought a picture showing…
… but it’ll require a turn away from progressives’ insistence that everything must be politics. This clip of Eric Weinstein and Nicole Shanahan discussing the “mind control at scale” we’re seeing at the national level is worth the four minutes of your time. It’s not only that our system has been coopted by the gaslighters,…
Several examples from the history of the last century — with particular clarity in the Spanish Revolution and the rise of Nationalist Francisco Franco — follow a pattern. Communists made inroads and proved themselves to be such immoral, disruptive radicals that even fascists seemed preferable to ordinary people. Modern Democrats in the United States know…
A theme one picks up from podcast discussions with cognitive scientists is that much of our perception — what we understand as real — is a matter of our choices about what we don’t pay attention to. A fully capable human has five senses, all of which are constantly sending more data to the nervous…
It still seems like a waste of resources, to me. Here’s his tweet from May, when he announced his continuing fundraising: There’s no pressure, here. Once people have that initial burst of “right on” feeling, such billboards become part of the background. When I looked into billboards years ago, they were about $10,000 per…
Arthur Brooks offering the graduates of Providence College positive life advice: You can get rich by telling people that they’ll be happy if they drive a certain car. You can get elected President of the United States by convincing people that their lives will make sense if they just get angry and hateful enough about…
John DePetro and Justin Katz review the undercurrents of politics in RI and nationally.
John DePetro and Justin Katz put a spotlight on the aspects of controversies that nobody seems to notice.
