New York’s Voter Suppression
Closed primaries and early registration deadlines make it hard to cast a ballot that counts. Source link
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Biden Took New Hampshire for ‘Granite’
Joe Biden is running as if he were unopposed for the Democratic presidential nomination, but he may face a comeuppance in New Hampshire. In the name of “diversity,” the Democratic National Committee demoted the Granite State from its traditional status as the first-in-the-nation primary in favor of South Carolina, where Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign took…
SBF Faces Prison, but ‘Effective Altruism’ Lives On
Proponents of the movement funded the Biden administration’s executive order hindering AI development. Source link
Davos Devotees Deindustrialize Europe – WSJ
Political, business and security leaders gather in Davos next week under the mantra of “rebuilding trust.” Key topics include security cooperation, artificial intelligence, energy security and job growth “for a New Era.” Undoubtedly there will also be calls to phase out fossil fuels and aspirations for a hydrogen-based green economy. Amid this grand planning for…
When Terrorists Talk, They Listen
Yigal Carmon is one of the few Israelis who can claim to have predicted this war. His Aug. 31 article “Signs of Possible War in September-October” cited provocations by Hezbollah, escalating violence in the West Bank and threats from Hamas as evidence of regional coordination for something big. “Israel will likely be compelled to undertake…
Ehud Olmert’s Missed Shot at Hamas
As Israel seeks to “decapitate” Hamas by killing or capturing its leaders, a former Israeli prime minister told me he had to pass up an opportunity to do so in 2007. On June 25 of that year, Ehud Olmert recalled in a phone interview, he took a call from his top security official who said…
Joe Biden and Bob Casey Fail the Israel Test
You could hear the demented joy through the phone. A young man standing in the Mefalsim kibbutz called his parents back in Gaza to brag about murdering 10 Jews on Oct. 7. They were elated. That was but one episode in a gut-wrenching 47-minute compilation of recordings and videos from that horrific day that I…
Harvard, Claudine Gay and the Education of Bill Ackman
Although Bill Ackman received his B.A. in 1988 and his M.B.A. in 1992, both from Harvard, you could say his education began on Oct. 8. On that morning, Mr. Ackman, founder and CEO of the Manhattan-based hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, woke up to the reality of moral rot at American universities. It was…
Alan Sokal’s Joke Is on Us as Postmodernism Comes to Science
When I taught physics at Yale in the 1980s and ’90s, my colleagues and I took pride in our position on “science hill,” looking down on the humanities scholars in the intellectual valleys below as they were inundated in postmodernism and deconstructionism. This same attitude motivated the mathematician Alan Sokal to publish his famous 1996…
Trump Summons the Furies in Iowa
Coralville, Iowa It was around 1 p.m., and he was scheduled to speak at 6. I had just arrived and was hoping to get a bite before the event. But already some 200 people waited outside the Hyatt convention center in this Iowa City suburb. I feared the line would grow fast, and the campaign…