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In all the fuss over Google’s firing of an engineer named James Damore (surely a corruption of "D’amore"?) for expressing an opinion about sex differences, the main focus has been upon the poor fellow’s right to freedom of speech, if any, with only secondary consideration being given to the merits, if any, which may be…

All the news is in the headline of an article in yesterday’s New York Times  headed "Hansa Market, a Dark Web Marketplace, Bans the Sale of Fentanyl." The article itself, by Nathaniel Popper, begins like this: A free market ideology has long been the prevailing ethos on the online markets where drugs and stolen credit…

Yesterday’s New York Times headlined: "Reality Winner, N.S.A. Contractor Accused of Leak, Was Undone by Trail of Clues." Not that you, probably, couldn’t have guessed as much for yourself. The article, by Charlie Savage, Scott Shane and Alan Blinder began like this: In the months after President Trump was elected, Reality Leigh Winner frequently expressed…

The other day, I had a sudden insight into how political correctness works even on those, like me, who otherwise fancy themselves as being most resistant to it. A girl in her teens, perhaps as old as college age, though no more than that, came to my door with a loud, confident knock: shave and…