Vance is rising in the VP betting odds. ElectionBettingOdds.com

I think he's one of the smarter people Trump could pick.

Noem's odds (red line) collapsed after a dog shooting scandal.

The University of Chicago, as usual, striking the right balance. Worth reading in full. It is exactly right.

President Alivisatos’ Note on the Encampment (April 29, 2024)

Dear Members of the University Community, Just a few hours ago, a group of students established an…

Thoughtful take from Jerry Seinfeld…

Left-wing, PC-culture has ruined comedy.

If you need a diversity committee to determine what’s funny, or have to placate the lowest common denominator, your culture is doomed.

🚨Holy Moly🚨 We're on course to spend $𝟎.𝟗 𝐭𝐨 $𝟏.𝟒 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐨𝐧 on debt cancellation. That's more than we spent ALL higher education spending before 2020, and as much as we are on course to appropriate for TOTAL education over the next decade.

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The axiomatic error undermining much of Western Civilization is “weak makes right”.

If someone accepts, explicitly or implicitly, that the oppressed are always the good guys, then the natural conclusion is that the strong are the bad guys.

Great interview with Johan Norberg!

People want the truth

1.62 is too low wsj.com/us-news/americ…

'advocates for the homeless have, for 40 years, demanded that funding for dealing with the homeless go into giving people private studio apartments rather than building sufficient shelter beds. They call this 'Housing First,' and its record is awful.'

Seems a huge regulatory over-reach.

Fake experts are everywhere on the internet. How do you spot a reliable expert and differentiate them from unreliable fakes?

Here are 12 signs to look for, each of which can provide evidence of a proclaimed 'experts' reliability:

[expertise megathread] 🧵

Even after the NYT, WPost, and other media fixed their errors, if you typed 'Hunter Biden Email Controversy' into Wikipedia, it sent you to... 'conspiracy theory!'

How did Wiki get it so wrong?

Because because wikipedia has been swamped with leftist, even socialist, editors!

If your great-grandparents had half as many kids, there's a 50% chance you would not exist. But they'd have been able to spend more time & money on each of their kids. Would that have been a better choice?

If you use Wikipedia, you've seen pop-ups like this. If you're like me, you may have donated as a result.

Wikipedia is an amazing website, and the appeals seem heartfelt. But I've now learnt the money isn't going where I thought...