Bruce Gilley's Blog, page 23

Government has a natural tendency to expand unless controlled by formal rules. My piece today on the need for rules-based government sizing.

Government has a natural tendency to expand unless controlled by formal rules. My piece today on the need for rules-based government sizing.

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A key reason to reject intercity rail in the US is so that unions cannot hold people's lives hostage as is happening throughout Europe. https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023...

A key reason to reject intercity rail in the US is so that unions cannot hold people's lives hostage as is happening throughout Europe.
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There was no "celebrate Polish composers" movement, no "stop anti-Polishness in classical music" diktat when Gorecki's 1976 symphony shot to fame with this 1992 recording. #meritmatters

There was no "celebrate Polish composers" movement, no "stop anti-Polishness in classical music" diktat when Gorecki's 1976 symphony shot to fame with this 1992 recording. #meritmatters

We need to start naming the totalitarian academics who drive dissidents from DEI ideology out of the university. The thugs at @UofRegina were @brittdhall and @courosa. Say their names. @WatSAFS @SocietyforAcad1

We need to start naming the totalitarian academics who drive dissidents from DEI ideology out of the university. The thugs at @UofRegina were @brittdhall and @courosa. Say their names. @WatSAFS @SocietyforAcad1

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RT by @BruceDGilley: Excellent review by Peter Wood, @NASorg president, of two new books on European contact with Native Americans. https://newcriterion.com/issues/2023/... via @newcriterion

Excellent review by Peter Wood, @NASorg president, of two new books on European contact with Native Americans.
newcriterion.com/issues/2023… via @newcriterion

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"Feminists" have a lot to explain for in encouraging the disaster of the American black family, says @HMDatMI . But discussion of the black family is now totally off limits. Instead we have "systemic racism."@AnnCoulter https://open.substack.com/pub/annc

"Feminists" have a lot to explain for in encouraging the disaster of the American black family, says @HMDatMI . But discussion of the black family is now totally off limits. Instead we have "systemic racism."

@AnnCoulter open.substack.com/pub/anncou…

UC Davis economics department cranking out South Asian radicals who get a good spanking from serious economists like @RoyHistory1 This is why universities need intellectual diversity: to avoid such embarrassments.

UC Davis economics department cranking out South Asian radicals who get a good spanking from serious economists like @RoyHistory1 This is why universities need intellectual diversity: to avoid such embarrassments.

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"The white population could shrink to five Afrikaners in a remote corner of Gauteng, and no doubt Malika would still be harping on about 'the boiling fire of white supremacy'," in South Africa writes the incomparable @herandrews. Worth the subscription.

"The white population could shrink to five Afrikaners in a remote corner of Gauteng, and no doubt Malika would still be harping on about 'the boiling fire of white supremacy'," in South Africa writes the incomparable @herandrews. Worth the subscription.

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Along with shoring up their voter base with an open southern border, and blocking voter integrity rules as "racist" , the Democratic Party's use of BLM as a militia-cum-intimidation force above the law shows it is a threat to our democracy. https://www.n

Along with shoring up their voter base with an open southern border, and blocking voter integrity rules as "racist" , the Democratic Party's use of BLM as a militia-cum-intimidation force above the law shows it is a threat to our democracy.
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The "citation justice" movement is on the warpath in academia. Part 3 of my series How Junk Citations Have Discredited the Academy. @apsrjournal @citeblackwomen #BlackCitesMatter https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2023...

The "citation justice" movement is on the warpath in academia. Part 3 of my series How Junk Citations Have Discredited the Academy. @apsrjournal @citeblackwomen #BlackCitesMatter
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