The Week's Recommended Reading on Substack:
writes that “you can’t prove that vaccines are/aren’t effective by having a discussion with someone who will confidently invent and promote baseless and debunked claims any more than you can prove vaccines are/aren’t effective by challenging LeBron James to a dunk contest. Both events may be entertaining, but they won’t necessarily tell us much about science.” writes that “the thugs who attacked Capitol Police on Jan. 6 are fanatics who responded to a cult leader's summons to save him from an unjust fate. They are tools of the elites, and they are entirely dispensable. Having prosecutors and investigators focus only on them is exactly what the cult leader and his associates who planned the operation need to happen.” writes that “a post-racial Big Brother is going to be of limited use in understanding America—and of very limited use in understanding Trump. The media in the United States can talk about authoritarianism, and it can talk about racism. But, with its understanding of fascism shaped by texts like 1984, it often has trouble putting the two together.” writes that “transgender people and their loved ones in Ohio now find themselves in a precarious position. They wait anxiously to determine whether they will successfully defeat the bill, or whether their state will pioneer the latest distressing method of targeting transgender individuals with discriminatory laws.” writes that “the closing down of safe and legal routes does not prevent people trying to claim asylum, it simply means they employ increasingly dangerous means to do so. Making it harder to reach the UK does not stop people from trying. It just means they will try riskier and riskier and riskier methods, which results in people dying.”Comments
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