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Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale 1
- Culture
- May 31, 2017
A communications group at Yale University has put out a video (see below) that seems to be a rebuttal to a Dilbert cartoon by Scott Adams poking fun at climate scientists and their misplaced confidence in models. The video is full of impressive-looking scientists talking about charts and data and whatnot. It probably cost a
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7 Reasons Trump is Right to Scrap the Paris Climate Deal 0
- Economics
- May 31, 2017
Reuters reports that President Donald Trump will withdraw the U.S. from the Paris climate agreement. And writers are apoplectic. Todd Stern at The Atlantic says such a move would be “indefensible.” At Slate, David McKean and David Wade said pulling out would be a huge mistake “because our planet is currently on a collision course
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Portland Mayor Says ‘Hate Speech’ is Not Protected Speech. He’s Wrong.0
- Culture
- May 31, 2017
Politicians seem increasingly likely to (falsely) assert that “hate speech is not protected by the First Amendment.” The mayor of Portland, Oregon, just did so following anti-Muslim violence in his community. Former governor and Democratic Party official Howard Dean said the same last month. The Washington Post does a good job of showing why the
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People with Creative Personalities Actually See the World Differently 0
- Education
- May 31, 2017
What is it about a creative work such as a painting or piece of music that elicits our awe and admiration? Is it the thrill of being shown something new, something different, something the artist saw that we did not? As Pablo Picasso put it: Others have seen what is and asked why. I have
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Pundit: The West’s Love of Open Borders is a ‘Suicide Pact’0
- Culture
- May 31, 2017
One week after the suicide bombing in Manchester that claimed the lives of 23 adults and children, Manhattan Institute scholar Heather Mac Donald offers a stinging rebuke to those calling for “pledges of renewed diversity” and little else. Writing in City Journal, Mac Donald says the left’s faith in open borders is impregnable. “Nothing that
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Noted Scholar to Congress: ‘We need a cultural Great Awakening’0
- Economics
- May 31, 2017
Political scientist Charles Murray has spent much of his career examining cultural trends in a declining America. He is most known for his controversial book The Bell Curve, which argues that intelligence is a better predictor of children’s success than their parents’ socioeconomic status. More recently he published the New York Times bestseller Coming Apart:
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Dilbert Cartoon on Climate Change Prompts Rebuttal from Yale 1