Professor of Economics Lawrence H. White at Hillsdale College (2015).

Gotta give it to @scrowder on this one. pic.twitter.com/YuSAayoU4J

— Neon Revolt (@NeonRevolt) August 17, 2019

Related at Belmont Club.

The Soviets had an entire “active measures” department devoted to churning out anti-American dezinformatsiya. A classic example is the rumor that AIDS was the result of research aimed at building a ‘race bomb’ that would selectively kill black people.
 
On a different level, in the 1930s members of CPUSA (the Communist Party of the USA) got instructions from Moscow to promote non-representational art so that the US’s public spaces would become arid and ugly.
 
Americans hearing that last one tend to laugh. But the Soviets, following the lead of Marxist theoreticians like Antonio Gramsci, took very seriously the idea that by blighting the U.S.’s intellectual and esthetic life, they could sap Americans’ will to resist Communist ideology and an eventual Communist takeover. The explicit goal was to erode the confidence of America’s ruling class and create an ideological vacuum to be filled by Marxism-Leninism.

From 2006, an essay that deserves wide distribution.

Via Instapundit.

AI, politics, social media, big tech, diseases of abundance, the Big Bang — this is a great interview. Make a pot of coffee.

Ambassador Dani Dayan addresses the Jerusalem Post’s annual conference in New York.

Never again.

Via Lorrie Goldstein

“… In the course of my talk, which was wide-ranging, I discussed President Trump’s position on Israel and Jews and the meaning of nationalism.”

Grab a coffee. (h/t Joe)

Charles R. Kesler;

Until the 1960s, most liberals believed it was inevitable that their living Constitution would replace the conservative Constitution through a kind of slow-motion evolution. But during the sixties, the so-called New Left abandoned evolution for revolution, and partly in reaction to that, defenders of the old Constitution began not merely to fight back, but to call for a return to America’s first principles. By seeking to revolve back to the starting point, conservatives proved to be Newtonians after all—and also, in a way, revolutionaries, since the original meaning of revolution is to return to where you began, as a celestial body revolves in the heavens.
 
The conservative campaign against the inevitable victory of the living Constitution gained steam as a campaign against the gradual or sudden disappearance of limited government and of republican virtue in our political life. And when it became clear, by the late 1970s and 1980s, that the conservatives weren’t going away, the cold civil war was on.

An hour in conversation. Grab a coffee.

h/t Larry

This is top notch, send it on to your friends and family.

h/t Howard