Clearing the Tabs 7-6-2018

Some things I've read this week or will be reading over the weekend.

June 30
Progressive California’s growing race challenge

July 2

The unthinking and the unobservant

July 3
To Sustain the Boom, Let's Avoid Harming Ourselves

California’s Climate Extremism

Our Addiction to Authenticity

"Utopianism breeds extremism; extremism breeds frustration; frustration breeds anger; anger breeds authenticity, and thus popularity. And that popularity breeds more utopianism. This is toxic cycle must be broken by reason and decency, but those two elements are in short supply — and are seen by too many Americans as evidence of lack of commitment, rather than as necessary preconditions to a workable politics."

July 4
Calvin Coolidge, the Declaration of Independence, and Limits on the Power of Government