Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hong Kong. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 15

Clearing the Tabs 7-15-2020

Some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. It appears the month will be a long one, and a lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on July 31 as well.

July 1
The future still lies in coal, oil, and nuclear

Triumph of the Oligarchs

July 4
What We Celebrate on the Fourth of July: Calvin Coolidge on the Declaration of Independence

July 5
Urban Blues
The fashionable radicalism now popular in progressive cities will ultimately fail and, in the process, hurt working people and minorities the most

July 6
How to expose and counter China's increasing aggression

July 7
Quest for Revolutionary Community

Behind the Rise of Postmodern Conservatism
The 1619 Project, a deeply flawed document

July 15
The Hong Kong Banana Republic
China cancels elections after a landslide pro-democracy victory.

Why We Can Be “Cautiously Optimistic” About the Economy

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Tuesday, December 31

Clearing the Tabs December 2019

Some things I've read this month or will be reading soon.

Saturday, November 30

Clearing the Tabs November 2019

Some things I've read this month or will be reading soon.

November 6
Anti-capitalism: trendy but wrong

November 9
Unsustainable California

November 18
How Many People Must Die to Fix the Planet?

November 21
America’s Drift toward Feudalism

Hong Kong Elections: What is Beijing afraid of?

Labour’s manifesto is extraordinary – and not in a good way
Labour's manifesto: tough on profits, tough on the causes of profits

November 22
This is How Radical Prosecutors Seek to Overthrow Justice and the Rule of Law

November 23
The Income Tax And America’s Grasp For World Power

November 27
Kotkin: Mayors Won’t Rule the World

November 30
The prisoner of intersectionality

Saturday, August 31

Clearing the Tabs August 2019

Some things I've read this month or will be reading soon.

August 2
Estonia Experiments with Higher Taxes, Learns a Lesson

August 3
The regression of America’s big progressive cities

August 4
Economic Illiteracy from the New York Times


August 24
Public schools should be places of learning, not propaganda
"Public schools need to focus not on ideology but on intelligent pragmatism. They should focus on both on improving reading and math scores and becoming reliable suppliers of talent to our local companies."

August 26
How the 1619 Project Rehabilitates the ‘King Cotton’ Thesis
My friend of nearly 20 years now, Phil Magness, continues to ruin theories of Leftists

August 31
The Recycling Folly
The bottom line is that most recycling programs impose a fiscal and personal cost on people for very meager environmental benefits.