Question 23

Question 23

Is James Bond a bad role model, a misogynist who drinks too much? Should he be canceled?

The reason the B.A. degree is four years is not because of some academic scholarly judgment that was made.  Henry Dunster left Cambridge, England, around 1640 and moved to the United States. He became the first president of Harvard and instituted what he knew from Cambridge, England, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. So we got a four-year B.A. degree. Shortly after he departed, Cambridge—the old Cambridge—switched to a three-year B.A. degree, as did Oxford.

Women earned 421 master’s degrees in health and medical sciences for every 100 men, 408 master’s degrees in public administration for every 100 men, and 350 master’s degrees in education for every 100 men. Is that progress?

It was reported recently that the number of children admitted, with Covid, to hospitals since the arrival of the Delta variant “has increased five-fold.” Scary. And true. But the absolute number of such hospital admissions went, during this two-month period, from just over 70 to just less than 400.
In the U.S. today there are 72.7 million persons ages 0-17. So....the “five-fold increase” caused by the Delta variant is 0.00055%.

The Biden administration, whoever they are, wants to nominate Saule Omarova for Comptroller of the Currency.
She graduated from Moscow State University in 1989 on the Lenin Personal Academic Scholarship. Thirty years later, she still believes the Soviet economic system was superior, and that U.S. banking should be remade in the Gosbank’s image.
Here is a fascinating thought she expressed:
"Until I came to the US, I couldn’t imagine that things like gender pay gap still existed in today’s world. Say what you will about old USSR, there was no gender pay gap there. Market doesn’t always ‘know best’."

There's a lot of scary stupidity packed into that. But, apparently, she's the best we've got.

From Will: Progressives, like many others among the highest animals, are situational ethicists. They think parental insurrections against religious fundamentalism are wholesome but that parental objections to anti-racist fundamentalism are impertinent.

Sanders, on the zillion dollar spending bill, says Americans exhibit “overwhelming support for the $3.5 trillion Build Back Better legislation” but that “a majority of Americans have very little knowledge as to what is in this bill.” Apparently he thinks this is a strong argument. An American senator.

Spain's coveted book prize was awarded to "Carmen Mola" -- an acclaimed female thriller writer who turned out to be the pseudonym of three men.

In the battle of tender souls, this is long but interesting: https://quillette.com/2021/10/13/the-implosion-of-bostons-pride-parade-is-a-sign-of-things-to-come/

Men are underrepresented in graduate school enrollment overall (only 100 men were enrolled in 2020 for every 148 women), men received fewer master’s (less than a 40% share of the total) and doctoral degrees (47% of the total) than women in 2020 and men were underrepresented in 7 out of 11 graduate fields of study at both the master’s and doctoral levels last year for both degrees and enrollment. If female representation in STEM fields is lower than males and if that is evidence of discrimination, what do these numbers mean?

Capitalism is an accident, not a philosophy. It is a freedom-based, consumer-oriented commodity distribution system selecting out the most efficient and inexpensive pathway. Profit is a motivating by-product. Attacking it must involve attacking those identifying elements.

So the Chinese have a hypersonic missile capable of carrying nuclear weapons. It is faster and more elusive than our defensive weapons can counter. Intel says they are surprised--apparently devoting most of their time to the Steele Dossier. The White House "welcomes the competition." Welcomes the competition? This is a game? These guys are admirable colleagues in the world-ruling clique? The only thing worse than looking like an idiot is sounding like one.