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Trauma and Truth

““That idea—that the presumption of innocence, fundamental to common law, should be suspended for accusations of sexual assault—has been the cornerstone of the campus-rape bureaucracy; during the Kavanaugh hysteria, that conceit jumped out of the ivory tower into the world at large. It will be no easy task to put it back. In preparation for the next Salem witch trial-like ordeal, therefore, it is worth empirically rebutting the #BelieveSurvivors mandate, as well as its corollary: the claim that if most self-professed rape survivors in our patriarchal culture don’t report their assaults, that’s because the “social and emotional” costs are too high, as California congressman Ted Lieu explained on MSNBC last Sunday.””
     — Heather Mac Donald

Tags: clipping ∙ guest content ∙ City Journal ∙ Heather Mac Donald ∙ sexual assault ∙ Brett Kavanaugh ∙ witch hunt ∙ Ted Lieu

“City Journal contributing editor John Tierney joins John Stossel to talk about the politicization of science and how the dominance of left-wing thinkers in academia and the scientific community impedes progress.”

Tags: video ∙ City Journal ∙ John Stossel ∙ John Tierney ∙ left-wing ∙ science

Of Crudeness and Truth

““Let’s state the obvious. Some countries are shitholes. To claim that this is racist is racist. They are not shitholes because of the color of the populace but because of bad ideas, corrupt governance, false religion, and broken culture. Further, most of the problems in these countries are generated at the top. Plenty of rank-and-file immigrants from such ruined venues ultimately make good Americans—witness those who came from 1840s potato-famine Ireland, a shithole if ever there was one! It takes caution and skill to separate the good from the bad.

For these very reasons, absurd immigration procedures like chain migration, lotteries, and unvetted entries are deeply destructive. They can lead to the sort of poor choices that create a Rotherham. Trump’s suggestions—to vet immigrants for pro-American ideas and skills that will help our country—are smart and reasonable and would clearly make the system better if implemented.

So, when it comes to the Great Shithole Controversy of 2018, my feeling is: I do not care, not even a little. I’m sorry that it takes someone like Trump to break the spell of silence the Left is forever weaving around us. I wish a man like Ronald Reagan would come along and accomplish the same thing with more wit and grace. But that was another culture. History deals the cards it deals; we just play them. Trump is what we’ve got.””
     — Andrew Klavan

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Headlines that don't merit their own entry

Tags: clipping ∙ City Journal ∙ Oren Cass ∙ The Atlantic ∙ Robinson Meyer ∙ Mashable ∙ Andrew Freedman ∙ David Wallace-Wells ∙ New York magazine

I played this game many times until I tired of it

Tags: voter ∙ establishment ∙ Michael J. Totten ∙ politicos ∙ City Journal