Should We Lower Standards To Help The Disadvantaged?
The case has some plausible reasoning underlying it. If some people lack the advantages that others have, we could compensate for that by lowering...
Michelle Obama Got Elected To What?
The school lunch rules in the United States might be a good idea, might not be. They might be good on nutritional grounds, might...
The Bureaucracy As An Hereditary Caste
Donald Trump brought in the kiddies as advisors in the White House. Jack Kennedy did so with the cabinet. Well, you know, times change...
A Misreading of History
From our Swindon Correpondent:
Al Capone: You can get so much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind word alone.
From The Times
Boris...
But Trump Actually Knows That Baltimore Is Infested
There's a somewhat desperate attempt to insist that Donald Trump was being racist when he described Baltimore as being "infested". Sure, actual historical people...
We Already Can’t Afford The Welfare State We’ve Promised Ourselves
Another reminder of the sad and basic fact that we cannot afford the welfare state that we've already promised ourselves. The ageing of the...
Gee, Math Is Hard – Mitch McConnell’s Folk Owned Slaves
Here's one of those puzzlers. Why would you think that Mitch McConnell's folk din't own slaves? His folks are indeed long time southerners so...
Low Nicotine Cigarettes And Faulty Logic – They’ll Kill More People, Not Fewer
A useful little trick in trying to improve the world is to understand why something is happening before attempting to change that world. Our...
The NFL Test – Whether Trump Has Made America An Authoritarian Hell Hole?
The rhetoric is pretty fierce these days, the election of Donald Trump has led to the United States revealing itself to be a racist,...
9 November 1989 – We the people, the free and equal citizens of democracies,...
Owen Jones and Grandpa Death can bugger off. And worse.
The greatest single moment in human freedom. Take it away Mr. O'Rourke:
The people in the...