Noah Smith: “This brings me to my fourth candidate explanation: Simple inertia and distraction. The percent of Americans naming the coronavirus as the country’s top problem has faded into insignificance, replaced by concerns like inflation and crime (and, after this week, possibly abortion rights). Even though many Americans are still dying or being afflicted with long Covid, the Biden administration may have simply concluded that the disease is no longer an issue worth spending political capital or attention on …”
\n" }, { "id": "1656141619", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2022/06/25/1656141619.html", "title": "We’re Not Going Back to the Time Before Roe. We’re Going Somewhere Worse", "date_published": "2022-06-25T07:20:19+00:00", "content_html": "\nJia Tolentino: “Both abortion and miscarriage currently occur more than a million times each year in America, and the two events are often clinically indistinguishable. Because of this, prohibition states will have a profoundly invasive interest in differentiating between them.”
\n" }, { "id": "1656087226", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2022/06/24/1656087226.html", "title": "18th-Century Infallibility Theory", "date_published": "2022-06-24T16:13:46+00:00", "content_html": "\nRobert Tracinski: “What Blass is arguing—and what I think the Dobbs opinion clearly implies—is that Alito has collapsed those two tests into one test. A right will only be recognized as implicit in liberty if it is also recognized in tradition. It replaces liberty as a standard with tradition as a standard, as I have argued elsewhere.”
\n" }, { "id": "1655531948", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2022/06/18/1655531948.html", "title": "Record-Breaking Voyager Spacecraft Begin to Power Down - Scientific American", "date_published": "2022-06-18T05:59:08+00:00", "content_html": "\nTim Folger: “‘In those days we always launched two spacecraft’ because the failure rate was so high, said Donald Gurnett, only partly in jest.”
\n" }, { "id": "1654833378", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2022/06/10/1654833378.html", "title": "The COVID Event Horizon", "date_published": "2022-06-10T03:56:18+00:00", "content_html": "\njenka: “All of which begs the question: how many SARS-CoV-2 infections can an organism sustain? People don’t get the flu 2 or 3 times a year, and if they did that would probably *also* be bad. But getting a thing that kills your T cells seems not infinitely scalable, right? […] Population-level immune dysfunction may go a ways to explaining the emergence of the sudden new characters in our viral cinematic universe — Monkeypox, Pediatric Hepatitis, et al.”
\n" }, { "id": "1654827688", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2022/06/10/1654827688.html", "title": "It All Came Together Against Chesa Boudin", "date_published": "2022-06-10T02:21:28+00:00", "content_html": "\nPatrick Redford: “If it seems strange to blame the DA and only the DA for problems so obviously outside of his purview, it is because it is in fact very strange to do that. But it is not hard to know why it happened: a good deal of the anger towards Boudin is the product of a well-funded and highly coordinated media campaign that, like any successful campaign of that kind, didn’t just push a narrative but create its own emotional reality.”
\n" }, { "id": "1653597563", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2022/05/26/1653597563.html", "title": "What It’s Like Here", "date_published": "2022-05-26T20:39:23+00:00", "content_html": "\nAlbert Burneko: “The next schoolroom filled with murdered children will include you or it will not, but either way it won’t be because anybody who didn’t want things to be like this could take it away, or because anybody with the power to take it away cared to try.”
\n" }, { "id": "1652644907", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2022/05/15/1652644907.html", "title": "Amazon’s relentless personal data foot-dragging", "date_published": "2022-05-15T20:01:47+00:00", "content_html": "\nCory Doctorow: “Mazurov wondered if this chaotic data-handling practice might be behind Amazon’s sluggish response to his request, but an Amazon’s spokesperson vigorously denied that the company’s security incompetence was to blame for its inability to deliver his data in a timely fashion.”
\n" }, { "id": "1652634787", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2022/05/15/1652634787.html", "title": "Would You Send Your Kid to College in a State Where Abortion Was a Crime?", "date_published": "2022-05-15T17:13:07+00:00", "content_html": "\nMichael Schaffer: “Our countrymen in the 19th and 20th centuries were accustomed to stark legal chasms between states and regions. Today, not so much. But if the ruling takes place along the lines of Justice Samuel Alito’s draft, there immediately will be an enormous practical difference between living in most red states and most blue ones. On one side of the line, you have a right; on the other, you don’t.”
\n" }, { "id": "1651590366", "url": "http://faisal.com/a/2022/05/03/1651590366.html", "title": "Incitement to Genocide Rising Under the Waves", "date_published": "2022-05-03T15:06:06+00:00", "content_html": "\nJosh Marshall: “In short, the entire bundle of conversations about transgenderism, gender identity and homosexuality have been very suddenly repackaged as ‘grooming’ and ‘pedophilia’.”
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