Harvey’s Introduction
So many college presidents have gone along with the new “woke” culture and allowed rioting and cancelling. This college president does not. A welcome read.
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Harvey’s Introduction
This essay appeared in the WSJ some time ago and has been in my “to do” folder for a while. However, the ideas expressed are still timely. Our culture, our republic is under assault. I will publish all good essays on this subject.
Harvey’s Introduction
In an attempt to make policing more sensitive, cities around the country are reducing the size of police forces, limiting the tools used to respond to crimes, reducing the number of now illegal acts to be considered illegal, prosecutors are deciding not to prosecute whole classes of crimes, reducing bail requirements and releasing criminals early. The result is that our major cities are becoming increasing unlivable. In this essay, Seth Barron, the editor of City Journal describes what is happening in New York City.
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Bari Weiss was an important writer and editor at the NY Times, who was fired for not being sufficiently woke. This essay was published in a Jewish magazine, Tablet, on what is happening to liberalism in our country. She takes on cancel culture and critical race theory and how these theories are being accepted, particularly in the Democrat Party. Her perspective is as a Jew who sees clearly the implications of this acceptance on Jews, but it is also clear as to the effects on our society.
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Kevin Hassett and his colleagues have analyzed Biden’s tax and regulatory plans to estimate the long term effects on our economy. Here, I just post the Executive Summary. For those who want to study the entire report, go to Hoover.org and search for this report.
Harvey’s Introduction
I got to know Kevin when he was head of the Economics Policy group at American Enterprise Institute. He’s exceedingly bright, not ideological and completely fact and analytic based. I admire him and his work. This essay is the first of what he says will be a series on various aspects of a likely policy agenda of a Biden administration, if we are so unfortunate as to have this pliable, mediocre man become president. Kevin’s essays will be interesting and thoroughly researched. To make it easy for the reader of this blog to find them, I’ve set up a new category “Biden’s Policies” which will hold all of Kevin;s essays.
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This article discusses at length the issues involved in the deescalation campaign – in which police are to be trained in techniques to deescalate situations involving mentally ill people. The objective is to reduce the number of those ill people having interactions with police in which they are killed. The intent is good, but the implementation of such a policy is hideously expensive and unlikely to actually work, in large part because there are so few instances where police actually kill a mentally ill person. Unfortunately, there are too many mentallly ill people who commit crimes and are a danger to themselves and to others. It’s hard to see how any amount of police training would have a significant effect on what is more a mentally ill problem than it is a policing problem. Eide does a very good job discussing this very complex issue.
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One of the absolute best speeches I’ve ever heard. Klingenstein explains clearly the differences in beliefs about our nation on the part of the two parties and the implications of those differences on our future. Brilliant and absolutely clear.
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This is an interesting, somewhat wonky article that appeared in National Review on why most criticisms of originalists in constitutional law seem not to understand what originalists believe. Others make arguments that ignore the clear reasoning of originalists. The article was written in response to the silly arguments against Amy Comey Barrett this week. I found the essay interesting and sharpened my own understanding of the issue.
Harvey’s Introduction
Eberstadt is an absolutely brilliant scholar, whose opinions are founded in deep analysis and understanding. This is a written version of the speech he gave at the Annual Dinner at American Enterprise Institute, honoring the late Irving Kristol. This is well worth reading and then reading again. It is a hopeful message.