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April 5, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Terrific—a new thing for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to police in employment discrimination. A Canadian social scientist (the best kind, no doubt) is out with a paper that finds job applicants who include non-binary pronouns (like “they/them”) on their resumes get fewer call backs than normal people. Who woulda thunk it? Potential employers prefer to avoid hiring dramatists and schizophrenics. The paper is Taryn versus Taryn (she/her) versus
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April 4, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I used to joke that “I was a teenage existentialist,” which is partly true, except I knew even at the time that it was a pose. But the angst at the center of teen life that used to be the subject of every teenagers-in-heat movie of the 1980s now looks more serious. I wonder if this trend might be related to this trend:
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April 3, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The joke in the Washington Beltway is that it only take a couple of snowflakes falling to cancel public schools and generate a run on bread and milk in the grocery stores. With a substantial early spring storm pounding the left coast a few days ago, and a separate storm pounding the midwest last week, worth noting these data on which parts of the country appear to be more robust
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April 2, 2024 — Steven Hayward
You may recall that back around 1984, when the economy was booming, President Reagan took a victory lap with the comment that “I notice they don’t call it ‘Reaganomics’ any more.” Worth recalling that “Reaganomics” was a term liberals and the media came up with to attack Reagan during the deep recession of 1982. So it is ironic that Joe Biden decided to try to peddle “Bidenomics,” which has been
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April 1, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Now that Easter is safely past (except for the Orthodox!), maybe (checks notes) chocolate prices might start to come back down? You know Bidenflation is bad when it reaches chocolate. (Note that the last time chocolate was this expensive, Jimmy Carter was president. Coincidence? I think not!)
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March 29, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The Wall Street Journal warns today of “The Coming Electricity Crisis,” as “Projections for U.S. electricity demand growth over the next five years have doubled from a year ago. The major culprits: New artificial-intelligence data centers, federally subsidized manufacturing plants, and the government-driven electric-vehicle transition.” Here’s what some of these projections look like: For the climate cult, electricity shortages are a feature, not a bug.
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March 28, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Do you suppose there just might be a relationship between student ideology and the increase in anxiety or mental illness among young people? Eric Kaufman has done it again, with a report just out from the new Centre for Heterodox Social Science at the University of Buckingham in the UK on how the mental health crisis does not explain wokery. I recommend looking at the whole thing, but one finding
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March 27, 2024 — Steven Hayward
From MSN: Report Shows Higher Conviction Rates for Muslim Immigrants in Denmark Compared to Natives Recent revelations based on data from Statistics Denmark shed light on a concerning trend: immigrants and their descendants in Denmark were convicted of violent crimes at a significantly higher rate than individuals of Danish origin between 2010 and 2021. The statistics paint a stark picture, particularly for young men from predominantly Muslim nations in the
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March 26, 2024 — Steven Hayward
I once asked a French acquaintance how it was that France managed to build over 5o nuclear power plants over the same time period that the U.S. built virtually none, and his answer was basically that France didn’t pay any attention to Jane Fonda. Actually his explanation was more colorful (and accurate). Read this with a French accent in your mind: “Ah, but it is simple you see: In France,
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March 25, 2024 — Steven Hayward
At the moment polls look good for Republicans across the board for the November election. But there is one aspect of this year’s cycle where things aren’t looking as good—campaign cash. From Bruce Mehlman’s useful weekly Substack update:
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March 22, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We always hear a lot about the expense and difficulty of decommissioning nuclear power plants, but we seldom hear about the cost and difficulty of decommissioning wind mills, which only last half as long (if that much) as nuclear plants. Especially offshore wind, which is much more expensive to begin with. Here’s one estimate of the future problem: JOHN adds: Offshore wind is possibly the stupidest way to generate electricity
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March 21, 2024 — Steven Hayward
The left loves to talk about being “The Resistance.” But the real “resistance” to our domineering leftist cultural and educational institutions can be seen vividly in this chart: And it seems more parents are not placing their children in pre-school, which is where wokism gets a head start (partly through Head Start, a federal program that repeated studies find is ineffective): Chaser—no wonder Democrats are in a panic right now
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March 20, 2024 — Steven Hayward
We’ve posted up several times before various measures of the ideological gender gap, all showing women are more liberal than men at just about every age cohort, but especially younger demographics. Another reason to repeal the 19th Amendment if you ask me. Anyway, here’s the latest trans-national comparison of younger people from The Economist. And once again the gender gap is worst in the U.S. (Sigh. At least Australian women
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March 19, 2024 — Steven Hayward
As anyone who suffers the Academy Awards nonsense knows, the new mandate in Tinseltown is “diversity.” There have to be “people of color” in every nomination category now. Meanwhile, no one seems to notice that women keep getting the short end of things when it comes to scripts of Best Picture winners. (I haven’t seen data for the last eight years, but I doubt there’s been much change.)
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March 18, 2024 — Steven Hayward
One of my favorite exchanges from “Yes, Minister” between Jim Hacker and the subversive career bureaucrat Sir Humphrey Appleby is when Hacker, the junior minister for administrative affairs, asks Sir Humphrey about whether he (Sir Humphrey) believes government policy should be carried out “even if it is wrong.” Sir Humphrey responds “Well, almost all government policy is wrong. . . but frightfully well carried out!” This came back to mind
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March 15, 2024 — Steven Hayward
These data, albeit a decade old, are a real head-scratcher. I am not sure how to explain it. It has been subject to some vigorous discussion lately on the social media site Formerly Known as Prince (as I have decided to call it). Ron Unz took a whack at it in The American Conservative ten years ago. One excerpt: But before we conclude that our elite media organs are engaging
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March 14, 2024 — Steven Hayward
Right now it seems the airlines (and especially Boeing aircraft) are suffering an epidemic of equipment failures and mishaps. Count me somewhat skeptical. I suspect the Alaska Air door frame blow out a few weeks ago, along with the tire falling off a United 777 the other day, has put the media on high alert, and now many episodes of mishaps and irregularities that might have gone unnoticed or unreported
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