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South Africa’s infrastructure failures have little to do with privatization or “the West,” and far more to do with self-inflicted brain drain, a general lack of expertise and proje…

When it comes to value systems that have stood the test of time and have well-understood failure modes vs. whatever hot new theory was cooked up on Twitter or Tumblr last week (the…

>and just as most Christians don't support setting bears on children that mock priests. I’m not Christian (anymore) but I’m pretty sure this isn’t a thing in canon law. In contrast…

This optimistic view of the Islamic world is, sadly, inaccurate. For example, as of 2013, an overwhelming majority of Muslims wish to make Sharia the law of the land: https://www.p…

You wouldn’t get fired at Rutgers: https://torontosun.com/life/rutgers-professor-calls-white-pe... Or Drexel: https://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/health/drexel-professor-white... Or Yal…

> Or none at all. Or ones for people in a select group. Bureaucrats do this too. See the history of communism in Europe, or present state of communism in China. Centralized welfare…

I am an atheist ex-Catholic. The big atheist-leftist crowd in my college town are intensely more violent, toxic, and racist than local Catholics or Lutherans. Lack of religious bel…

Broadly speaking, the community-oriented left in places like the US support bureaucratic government welfare programs, while community-oriented conservatives support more organic, o…

In America, you don’t need to reach for philosophy to explain the destruction of high-trust communities when history will do: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2056992.Left_Behin…