Unca Darrell

APRIL 29 / Diagnosis first, then the prescription

IF YOU HAVE narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as . . .  

APRIL 28 / Why do so many college and high-school students love Bernie Sanders?

Because he is "a confirmation of all they have been taught."

So says Dorothy Rabinowitz, rightly.

IN THE DAYS before the New York primary, crowds of Sanders supporters gathered in Manhattan's Washington Square Park. They were young, overwhelmingly white, trapped in . . . 

APRIL 27 / Mahbubani and Summers: A case against global declinism

With a small rebuttal by Unca Darrell.

UNCA D is an unrepentant declinist. I believe the United States has made a potentially irreversible u-turn away from the values, institutions, and processes that have made it such a good and remarkable place. Read my old blogs for facts and arguments.  

Now come two public thinkers of considerable consequence to argue "the case for global optimism." The writers are . . .

APRIL 25 / Two things, neither of which Unca Darrell will ever do

VOTE FOR Hillary Rodham Clinton for president. Or . . .  

APRIL 23 / Why Peggy Noonan burst into tears

Because . . . 2016.

I watched [television reports of pro- and anti-Trump demonstrators, "Hillary Clinton yelling"] dumbly, tiredly. Then for no reason . . .

APRIL 15 / Another first-gen immigrant actually likes the West

BACK ON APRIL 1, I posted about a first-generation immigrant from India to Great Britain -- illegal, as it happens -- who understood that "Western exceptionalism is practical, everyday reality, not airy theory." The Wall Street Journal has something similar today, an account by a first-generation German Jewish immigrant who came with his family to escape the Nazis.

It takes an immigrant like me to parse the poison that Bernie Sanders is peddling to the naïve youth of this country. It takes someone who has experienced socialism's failures firsthand -- as I did, initially as a small child, later as a young adult -- to see why . . .

APRIL 12 / Why do Democrats support unchecked immigration of the poor and uneducated?

Easy. They make better Democrats. So argues Victor Davis Hanson.

EUROPE'S IMMIGRATION POLICY is a disaster -- and for reasons that transcend the idiocy of allowing the free influx of young male Muslims from a premodern, war-torn Middle East into . . .

APRIL 8 / Our progressive intelligentsia who pooh-pooh the "Texas Miracle" have only two problems

Facts and arithmetic.

From its peak in January 2008 through today, the United States has created 750,000 jobs. Texas created over a million jobs during the same period -- meaning . . .  

APRIL 7 / Why I closed my PayPal account today and . . .

. . . why conservatives should stop doing business with progressive social justice warriors disguised as businesses.

PayPal has announced that it will not open a new operations center in North Carolina, because of the state's new "bathroom law" -- a law that sensibly requires people to use public, multi-occupancy bathrooms that correspond to their biological sex. PayPal thinks this is horrible. To put it bluntly, PayPal's "corporate values" include involuntarily exposing women and girls to male nudity . . .  

APRIL 6 / Anti-Trump momentum finally registers . . .

. . . in national GOP polls. The beneficiaries, of course, are Ted Cruz (up big time -- 14 points over the past thirty days) and John Kasich (up 11). Donald Trump, by contrast . . .