Ressentiment — hostile resentment — occurs when individual failure or insufficient status is blamed both on the system within which that failure or lowly status occurs and then, most particularly, on the people who have achieved success and high status within that system. The former, the system, is deemed by fiat to be unjust. […]

Rochelle Walensky, the head of the CDC, at a press briefing. Fully vaccinated people can start following the looser guidelines about two weeks after their final shot, the agency said. The guidance says that those who’ve received their shots can also gather indoors with others who have the jab without […]

Twelve states have asked a Federal Court to keep federal agencies from using the so-called Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases to calculate the benefits of emission reduction regulations. The new cost estimates, ordered by President Biden on day one, claim enormous distant future damages from today’s emissions of carbon dioxide, […]

The competition between the political parties in the US, has caused both of them to claim their policies strengthen economic growth. Potential as the supply capability of the economy, as you would imagine, is based on inputs primarily the availability of physical capital , natural resources, and labor. The existence of […]

Canada, like other Western countries, is facing the challenge of responding effectively to the still-rising wave of self-loathing that is engulfing and distracting the whole Western world, as historically pre-eminent classes are made out to be oppressors and asked to atone for the alleged sins of their forefathers. This painful […]

For quite some time we have been warning about the rising shark fin of rising yields and rates. As of this writing, one can almost hear John Williams’ orchestral theme song to Jaws ringing in the ears. The Slow Creep Mortgage rates in the U.S. have hit 3%, dramatically curtailing mortgage […]

That cushioned the blow of the pandemic, but raises some hard questions about what Canada got for all that spending. The economy shrank 5.4% last year, Statistics Canada said Tuesday, the sharpest annual decline in the post-World War II era and the third straight year in which it underperformed the […]

Bhattacharya, who made the comments during an interview with the Daily Clout, co-authored the Great Barrington Declaration, a petition that calls for the end of COVID-19 lockdowns, claiming that they are «producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health». As of Monday, the Great Barrington Declaration has received signatures […]

Rochelle Walensky, the head of the CDC, at a press briefing. Fully vaccinated people can start following the looser guidelines about two weeks after their final shot, the agency said. The guidance says that those who’ve received their shots can also gather indoors with others who have the jab without […]

There is a problem in the functioning of our political system. Politics, especially from the high liberal or «woke» perspective, is a call, something close to an actual order, to agree with a set of opinions on certain subjects that are handed down from above. On these matters, politics is […]