I dislike intellectual partisans. It’s a contradiction in terms for me. I’ve picked up Sowell from time to time, but never persevered because, at least as it’s seemed to me reading his stuff, he’s seen plenty of light in his explanations of what’s wrong with the left. That’s fine and dandy — so have many of us. But seeing the weaknesses of the left from the comfort of an alternative ideology that’s just as flawed, just bores me I’m afraid. It’s like watching someone going through their talking points. Why would I bother?

If he had some real insights I could dig into well and good. I published some terrific stuff from Glenn Loury in my substack

nicholasgruen.substack.com/i/144041627/…

and I’m an admirer of his friend McWhorter. But they’re curious, poking around in uncomfortable places.

Wikipedia tells me that, despite earlier reservations about Trump, if Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, it could signal a tipping point akin to the fall of the Roman Empire.

Joe Biden is just a professional politician — nothing unusual about him. Presumably no stranger to stretching the truth, raising money, doing deals and all the rest of it. But just the kind of thing that our political system has run on for generations.

And this was contrasting him with Trump who behaves and even campaigns with complete disregard for the safety of the Republic as a liberal democracy. I mean give me a break.