Author: Vikram Bath
The Secret To Being an Adult? Agreeing with William Deresiewicz
The former English teacher at Yale University is back to wonder why college students can’t be mature iconoclasts like they were in the 1960s. And also to remind you he taught at Yale University.
You Are What You Shave With
Razors used to be the best a man can get. Now they are what a man is. Here is where the Daily Wire enters.
The United States Lost the War in Afghanistan
Neither Biden nor the media have portrayed this as defeat, but it is. The United States lost the War in Afghanistan
They are Newton’s Laws of Motion
It seems like students should at least be told that others refer to them as Newton’s laws of motion even as they chose to refer to them differently.
Why Doesn’t the US Get to Have High Speed Rail?
If American cities could buy high speed rail systems at European costs, they very well might. But they can’t, so they don’t.
Inaugural Dread: What Happened January 6th, and Will it Happen Again January 17th or January 20th?
President Trump merely told them that “if you don’t fight like Hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” This is Trump’s history.
Impeach Him, Tonight
A rule that allows presidents to do whatever they want as long as they don’t have very much time remaining in office is a bad one with many easily foreseeable downsides.
We Deserve Donald Trump
The president has not changed in the least bit over the last eight months. We have no new information…The only thing that changed is that we are mad.
What is Democracy’s Selling Proposition with Respect to China?
There is no moral equivalency between the United States government and China’s government. But how do we package those differences in a convincing manner?
Do All Lives Matter?
One thing I’ve noticed about the correction of “All Lives Matter” is that it doesn’t really seem sufficient if one’s goal is purely to inform.
The Director of the CDC Might Have Lied To Us
The likely reason the United States will not get drive-through testing is because we lack the testing capability, not because we want to preserve the provider-patient relationship.
Getting to Ten Times Better
Vikram briefly examines three domains governed by power-law distributions: basketball, programming, and money
The American Lawn is a Shared Nuisance
The American housing market has a number of features that makes many participating homeowners unhappy, and there is no clear way out.
Do You Really Want Full Access to Your Health Data?
The right to access your health information in a programmatic fashion also gives you the right to unwittingly give a random app developer access to your health information. Is this a right we actually want?
A Sudden Outburst of Concern Over Kamala Harris’s Departure
Kamala Harris does not want to be the token black candidate hanging around to make the Democratic Party feel comfortable.
Asking China to Investigate the Bidens is Worse Than Trump’s Asking the Ukraine
How Congress handles this will determine what is acceptable behavior in a president
The GM Strike is Going to Take a While
There’s an election a year from now, and many of the people affected by the UAW strike live in the states that will determine the election’s outcome.
Democratic Presidential Candidates: To Whom Should We Extend Your Compassion?
As newly-minted, likely Democratic-primary voter visiting China, I have a question that has not been addressed in the debates: How much am I supposed to care about others?
