Paleo Retiree writes:

• Do today’s journalists really deserve to be called “Guardians of the Truth“?
• An excellent — and even nuanced — five-minute case for nationalism.
• The book version.
• What are today’s young neohippies seeing in the Unabomber?
• Bu-bu-but … If we stop using plastic straws we’ll save the environment!!!
• Reports about global warming are apparently having an impact on the mental health of young people.
• “What is most striking about Herbert Marcuse [one of the intellectual/political inspirations for the 1960s New Left] is the ferocity with which he rejected a society — the United States — that had not only given him refuge from the Nazis, but all the privileges of membership of its academic elite.”
• How many Holocaust Museums does the world really need?
• France’s “gilets jaunes” haven’t calmed down yet.
• Michel Houellebecq saw it all coming.
• If black students are being disciplined at several times the rate that white and Asian students are, does that automatically mean that someone’s being racist?
• Joanna Williams looks back at a year of trans craziness. Here’s hoping sanity is regained in 2019.
• Somebody took the advice of pop culture, her teachers and her friends ‘way too seriously.
• Yet the cause of her problems is obviously traditional men.
• Who’s the most hated group in America?
• How Woke can a NYC restaurant be and still survive?
• As fascinating and important as the material is, I’m finding David Reich’s current book about ancient DNA a geeky slog to finish. If you’re curious about Reich’s work, I recommend starting with this lecture-and-slideshow video instead of the book.
• A life in today’s media: from star magazine writer to Amazon delivery guy.
• I’ll say!