Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet by Michael Shellenberger

Why Renewables Can’t Save the Planet by Michael Shellenberger

I think it’s natural that those of us who became active on climate change gravitated toward renewables. They seemed like a way to harmonize human society with the natural world. Collectively, we have been suffering from an appeal-to-nature fallacy no different from the one that leads us to buy products at the supermarket labeled “all natural.” But it’s high time that those of us who appointed ourselves Earth’s guardians should take a second look at the science, and start questioning the impacts of our actions.

Now that we know that renewables can’t save the planet, are we really going to stand by and let them destroy it?

This guy has a lot of guts, speaking truth to power.

Lightweight Lincoln By Allen C. Guelzo

Lightweight Lincoln

Freehling’s Lincoln is a man almost entirely devoid of intellectual ballast. This is not the Lincoln who described himself as having “always hated slavery.” Nor is there any sense in Becoming Lincoln of Lincoln’s long kinship to 19th-century free-market economics (from John Stuart Mill to Francis Wayland to Henry Carey). When, during the debates with Douglas, Lincoln speaks of an equality that blacks and whites should have in eating the bread they have earned by the sweat of their own brows, Freehling cannot believe that an economic equality — one concerned with earning bread — deserves to be taken seriously.

A Lincoln scholar, whom I greatly admire, Allen C. Guelzo, takes on a fellow Lincoln student with a scathing review.

Welcome to New York, Amazon—Now Go Home by Peggy Noonan

Welcome to New York, Amazon—Now Go Home

It would all be funny if it weren’t for that lost world. The 25,000 families getting a new paycheck, the mothers and fathers suddenly able to send their kids to the local Catholic school, the busy sidewalks, the lights. Instead, the books unbought in the store that didn’t open. The talent unhired and unmet.

As usual, Peggy Noonan hits it out of the park with brilliant analysis and insight. 

I doubted Jussie Smollett, and it breaks my heart that I might be right by Nana Efua Mumford

I doubted Jussie Smollett, and it breaks my heart that I might be right by Nana Efua Mumford

I wanted to believe Smollett. I really did. I know that there is a deep, dark racist history in Chicago and, if proved true, this would be just one more point on the list. I wanted to believe him with every fiber of my being, most of all because the consequences if he were lying were almost too awful to contemplate.

What kind of pathology wants a horrible crime to be true? Example #1 that the racism so widely proclaimed is indeed rare. No one hoped that horrifying stories coming out of Germany from Jews were true.

Emancipation Deniers Target Lincoln’s Reputation by Allen C. Guelzo

Emancipation Deniers Target Lincoln’s Reputation

In an age when rocking century-old statues off their pedestals has become a public sport, no historical reputation is safe. That includes Abraham Lincoln, the Great Emancipator.

Guelzo defends Lincoln as the Great Emancipator in brilliant fashion.