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A Friday Hodgepodge 1. "9/11 -- 25 Years Later: Objectivism, Islamic Totalitarianism, and America's Crisis of Ideas," by Elan Journo, Onkar Ghate, and Yaron Brook (New Ideal): September 11, 2001 -- and America's response to it -- shaped the 21st century.

Consultant Gleb Tsipursky recently examined the latest iteration of what I like to call the "Asses in Seats" method of management: Using the commutes of the people one should be managing as proof-of-work.

"This is just the pure religious nature of the climate catastrophist movement.

Michael Tomasky of The New Republic predicts a "tidal wave" against Trump in this fall's midterms.

Donald Trump's looniness about elections is both red meat for his base and a pretext for doing whatever he thinks he can get away with to "find the votes" he wants in the next election.

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The saying extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence can be a guardian against being mislead, but only when one recognizes a claim as being extraordinary.

At Reason, Veronique de Rugy rightly takes Republicans to task for sneakily doing what the Democratic Socialists of America at least have the decency to be open about, reagrding government stakes in private companies: As Cato's Tad DeHaven notes, "The sev…

Ron DeSantis, whose Covid-era anti-lockdown policies have morphed into an anti-vaccination agenda, has received pushback from an unexpected source and for an unexpected reason: Catholic schools oppose being forced to grant religious exemptions for their v…

In an X article titled "The Two Rituals: What Leviticus Knows About COVID, Fauci, and Measles in Lancaster County," physician Amesh Adalja considers events from the Covid pandemic to the current return of measles outbreaks to a nation that had once elimin…

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I am not a country music fan, and I was not that familiar with Dolly Parton's work.

The Republican Party of the future is not going to be the party of Milton Friedman.

John Stossel's latest column -- and video, which I'm embedding below -- are worth your time and are both incredible for two very different reasons.

A Friday Hodgepodge Editor's Note: I will be recovering from a minor medical procedure next week and will not be blogging, although I will probably post on X/Twitter most days.

... or at least the choice or the alternatives aren't always obvious.

Depending on which conservative you read, either disaster was averted or an an election was stolen in Minnesota's Republican gubernatorial primary yesterday.

I hear from the Guardian that Anthony Fauci pled the Fifth 100 times in Senate hearings about his actions during the pandemic.

An Australian budget airline is coming under fire after offering its customers a new way to make flying less stressful.

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Although Alison Green wasn't writing about conspiracism, a recent post of hers at Ask a Manager indirectly reminded me of that phenomenon, and the seemingly creative ways that conspiracists purport to explain what's "really going on."

At RealClear Markets, Peter Grossman of the National Center for Energy Analytics considers President Trump's recent tirades against "unrealistic" gasoline prices and what an authoritarian ignoramus like him might do about them.

I oppose Trump's SAVE Act for reasons I have already elaborated upon.

With the current waiver of the Jones Act set to expire on August 16 and copious data indicating its repeal would be a boon to the U.S. economy, one might wonder why there isn't significant momentum behind repealing it once and for all.