The Washington Post’s Taylor Lorenz raises alarms about “algospeak,” the slang words social media users have invented to avoid wrong-think detection by content moderation algorithms. The head of our new “disinformation governance board” has vowed to weed out the purveyors of “malign creativity.” But suddenly, in the midst of this celluloid nightmare, a champion seems to have arisen.
We wrote last November that MIT “has caved repeatedly to the demands of ‘wokeness’, treating its students unfairly, compromising the quality of its staff, and damaging the institution and academic freedom at large.” As has happened across academia, total commitment to DEI has become an article of faith, with an aggressive program of minority admissions part of the canon.
When news arrived that the nation’s real gross domestic product (GDP) declined in the first quarter, words like recession and stagflation immediately gained currency. It had long been clear that the post-Covid recovery was slowing, but such characterizations are nonetheless misplaced, at least for the moment.
Inflation hovers near record highs, the debt skyrockets out of control, and even talking about it can feel like it’s making the problem worse. It gets harder every day even to conceptualize the extent of the economy itself, let alone make moves to counteract its myriad dysfunctions. Meanwhile, Trump is emerging as GOP kingmaker…and more? Spencer and James discuss the failures of central planning, and the hope for a new kind of federalism to set the country on a better course.
