@GoldwaterInst. @USMC veteran, @Campbelledu and @DukeU alum. Words: @WSJ, @TheAtlantic, others. Ultramarathoner. All opinions are my own
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Tyler Bonin retweeted
Emerson College in Boston has issued a "stay in room directive" for returning students next month -- the same students already required to get "boosted" and tested twice a week. Sounds like fun
We’ve opted, at the highest levels of education, to create sophists instead of searchers for truth. This is clear now.
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Just to be clear: the political and public health elite who've enacted endless mandates and restrictions are living their lives normally.
They expect you, not their enlightened selves, to adopt a new normal.
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Producing one day’s worth of disposable face masks (current usage rates) means producing about 15K metric tons of CO2. Perspective: The city of Detroit produces about 3.5K metric tons of CO2 per day.
Can we please get climate change folks and public health folks to argue?
Instead of sentencing a young man to jail, a judge in the UK is assigning him Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens, etc.
Judge says he’ll test him and know whether he actually read. If he didn’t, it’s jail time.
Thoughts on classical ed mediation? @JeremyTate41? shorturl.at/BEIY4
Great new podcast. Check it out!
What's gone wrong with #highered? Why did @MillsCollege get bought out? Does being #woke mean going #broke? Richard Vedder explains.
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Tyler Bonin retweeted
Even one life saved is enough to justify whatever Covid restrictions you’d like and anything less is a “death cult” but also leaving tens of thousands of Americans and our allies in Afghanistan isn’t something we can do much about.
Seven weeks of lockdowns. Military patrolling streets. Yet infection rates continue to rise.
This is beyond absurd. It’s illogical and it’s tyrannical. At what point will people get fed up with with perpetual cycles of lockdown? My fear is that too many people never will.
There was panic buying at the supermarkets in Australia's capital Canberra after it was announced that the city would go into a snap week-long lockdown as it reported its first locally acquired case of COVID-19 in more than a year reut.rs/37DCbqU
Lotta folks on this platform want a state of perpetual lockdowns etc, citing the need to protect society
Yet they deride people who mention the need to safeguard institutions such as the rule of law—which protects society from arbitrary power—as selfish fools
No civic virtue.
Two points from Carl Sagan's "Baloney Detection Kit" that seem lost in the current moment:
Encourage debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
Do not confuse expert and authority. “In science there are no authorities; there are experts at most"
Man, this platform really shows you the number of people in this country who would become complete tyrants if given an ounce of power
Billionaires talking remotely using telephones isn't progress. It's a sign of grotesque inequality that allows a select few to converse while the rest of humanity suffers.
In 1915, it cost (inflation adjusted) ~ $500 to make 3 min coast-to-coast phone call. Have things changed?
Billionaires rocketing off to space isn’t a sign of progress. It’s a sign of grotesque inequality that allows a select few to leave earth behind while the rest of humanity suffers.
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