May 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Well-educated but barely employable: that description, which once would have seemed paradoxical, describes an increasing number of Americans. One of them is David Walsh, who has a PhD in history but apparently can’t get a tenure-track job. Until now, Walsh was best known as a far-left flamer on Twitter. But, in a cri de cœur, he let the cat out of the bag–how he really feels about DEI. Walsh explained
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May 28, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Speculation that the Democrats would dump Joe Biden from their 2024 ticket has been rife for a long time. For quite a while, I thought it was almost inevitable. Rasmussen finds that currently, most Democrats wouldn’t mind seeing Joe go: In February, 48% of Democratic voters said they would approve of their party finding another candidate to replace Biden, but that number has now risen to 54%, including 25% of
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May 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker
China’s Xi Jinping is building on the covid surveillance state to tighten the Communist Party’s control on the Chinese people. The New York Times reports: The wall in the police station was covered in sheets of paper, one for every building in the sprawling Beijing apartment complex. Each sheet was further broken down by unit, with names, phone numbers and other information on the residents. Perhaps the most important detail,
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May 27, 2024 — John Hinderaker
It’s not too late: American Experiment is hosting Naftali Bennett, the former (and likely future) Prime Minister of Israel as the speaker at our Annual Dinner on June 6. Follow the link for information and to buy tickets, which I highly recommend if you live in reasonable proximity to Minnesota. The Annual Dinner is a fundraiser, so tickets are intentionally not cheap. On the other hand, going out to dinner
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May 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Wing Luke Museum is an art and history museum in Seattle that focuses on the culture, art and history of Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders. It recently staged an exhibit on “hate,” which was too much for its staff, half of whom walked off the job in protest: Nearly 30 Seattle museum staffers have shut down the art center in protest of its new “Confronting Hate Together”
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May 26, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This CBS News report from 1982 features a mini-rogues gallery: Dan Rather and Al Gore. It gives a crude account of the greenhouse effect, without mentioning that the greenhouse effect makes life on Earth possible. It is a relatively early version of the false predictions we have been seeing for close to 50 years now: 1982 CBS News report—featuring a 34 year old Al Gore—predicts the "widespread disruption of agriculture",
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May 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Today Instapundit linked to a test you can take that will situate you on two axes. One is from left to right on economic issues, the other is authoritarian vs. libertarian. Having some minutes to spare, I took the test. This is the profile it delivered: So, somewhat on the right on economic issues, and slightly tilting toward the libertarian, but close to the middle on both axes. That might
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May 25, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Here is Joe Biden, talking about…something, it is hard to say what. Mostly he seems to be trying to stay awake: BIDEN (slurring incoherently): "Jill and I are honored to have you here and we're representing, including many members of the Africa diaspora. One just left — Barack…" 😬 pic.twitter.com/3IACMFQDXj — RNC Research (@RNCResearch) May 24, 2024 Joe Biden is visibly, obviously senile. I don’t think the question is so
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May 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I don’t think I ever saw “Barbarella,” but I remember the Jane Fonda of those days. That was a long, long time ago. Nowadays, Fonda is campaigning to return us to the pre-modern era by encouraging a “p***y boycott” of anyone involved in the fossil fuel industry. Note that her phrase is bleeped here; the twitter post that I originally saw has been deleted: At 86, Jane Fonda is not
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May 24, 2024 — John Hinderaker
I had a busy day today, among other things writing this piece, on Minneapolis four years after the George Floyd riots, for the New York Post. Catching up on Twitter, it looks like the IDF is making good progress in Rafah. As always, the “Palestinians” are great at terrorizing women and children, not so great at fighting actual soldiers: This is huge! Over 900 Hamas terrorists have surrendered in Rafah.
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May 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Insiders at UCLA’s medical school apparently have shared information with the Free Beacon that shows the destructive impact of racism–DEI–on medical schools. The story by Aaron Sibarium begins with an anecdote: [W]hen it came time for the admissions committee to consider one such student in November 2021—a black applicant with grades and test scores far below the UCLA average—some members of the committee felt that this particular candidate, based on
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May 23, 2024 — John Hinderaker
OK, I know Joe Biden is senile. But even so, the fact that he could utter these words beggars belief: Biden: "I say to every young man thinking of getting married, marry into a family with five or more daughters … One of them will always love you" pic.twitter.com/d5CHYliC4j — The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) May 21, 2024 Maybe poor Hunter never had a chance.
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May 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
We can’t have both a “green” energy transition and artificial intelligence. That is the message of Robert Bryce on Substack. The linked essay is long and complex, and I encourage you to read it all. Here are a few extracts that I hope distill Robert’s point: The rise of artificial intelligence has re-ignited concerns about electricity availability and strains on the power grid. Over the past two decades, worries that
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May 22, 2024 — John Hinderaker
This video was released today. It has several segments, all apparently shot by Hamas fighters on October 7. It shows five kidnapped Israeli women, all ages 18 or 19 and all serving in the IDF. I am not certain of the provenance of the video; I believe that it was recovered, either entire or in pieces, by the IDF from Hamas fighters. pic.twitter.com/LX2XLmdR0K *Trigger Warning * ⚠️⚠️⚠️ – The Face
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May 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
Women’s sports developed in a major way, beginning in the 1970s, for obvious reasons: it would be unfair to force women to compete against men who are generally bigger, stronger and faster, while at the same time, there is value in women’s athletic skill and in promoting fitness generally. Pretty much everyone understood this at time, and women’s athletics have enjoyed broad public support for two generations. But that was
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May 21, 2024 — John Hinderaker
The Biden Administration is determined to limit America’s production of fossil fuels, of which we have the largest supply in the world. This will transition us from a position of energy independence, and potentially energy dominance, into a position of subservience to the Chinese Communist Party, on which we will depend for the vast quantities of materials that are needed for wind turbines, solar panels and batteries–which we will not
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May 20, 2024 — John Hinderaker
We have reported many times on the Feeding Our Future scandal here in Minnesota. Minnesota’s Department of Education allowed taxpayers to be defrauded of somewhere between $250 million and $500 million in programs that ostensibly were intended to feed poor children during covid. Of course, if you did the math, there aren’t that many poor children in Minnesota, and the facilities whose operators got the money couldn’t possibly have fed
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