I think we are going to be surprised at the magnitude of the backlash against wokeness. This is one of the problems with movements that censor speech: you don't know how many people you're censoring, because they can't tell you....
Cigarette sales and lung cancer deaths are the same curve, shifted 25 years. ...
Walking around Cambridge (MA). Richer and tidier than it used to be, but more boring. Suddenly the feeling of Cambridge in 1986 came back to me. I could almost smell the old Cambridge. Then I noticed the garbage truck at the end of the block....
This looks like a shot from a dystopian movie. The symmetry, the shininess, the flags that look like cones, the guards with capes. Everything says dictator. ...
This is a dramatic change, and not the kind of change that people who voted for Brexit were hoping for. ...
Prediction: Biden won't be the Democratic nominee. I don't have any recent inside information, which as I'll explain, is one reason I think so....
ChatGPT 4o on when wokeness peaked: ...
The happy warrior. Don't mistake that smile for weakness. ...
