The Morning February 4, 2025 By David Leonhardt Good morning. We’re covering a new report on the state of America — Like many other Americans, Douglas Harris — an economist at Tulane University — has found himself worrying about the quality of public discourse. It is full of misinformation, cynicism and polarization. Americans seem irrationallyContinue reading ““Wealthy Unhappiness” would sound like an oxymoron to most Indians , wouldn’t it ?”
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America spiralling into intellectual and moral anarchy and Curtis Yarvin doctrine is symptomatic of it.
Curtis Yarvin is proposing a new political doctrine for America to embrace. It’s called neo-anti-brahminism … Please scroll down to read a piece on him and his works. In my view, Yarvin is simply proposing the replacement of one oligarchy with another … i.e. a democracy where left-liberal neocons, globalists and Woke oligarchs — whoContinue reading “America spiralling into intellectual and moral anarchy and Curtis Yarvin doctrine is symptomatic of it.”
The Trump Tariff Policy : my Q&A with Meta AI (10 Questions)
1. How will Canada retaliate to U.S. tariffs President Trump announced yesterday ? Canada is likely to retaliate against the U.S. tariffs announced by President Trump, and the extent of the retaliation will depend on various factors, including the level of tariffs imposed by the U.S. and the Canadian government’s strategy. According to a report byContinue reading “The Trump Tariff Policy : my Q&A with Meta AI (10 Questions)”
O Ye Young educated Indians … ! Please hold on to your self-respect ! Don’t be called imported “slaves of America”!
“Birthright citizenship was, if you look back when this was passed and made, that was meant for the children of slaves. This was not meant for the whole world to come in and pile into the United States of America. “Everybody coming in, and totally unqualified people with perhaps unqualified children. This wasn’t meant forContinue reading “O Ye Young educated Indians … ! Please hold on to your self-respect ! Don’t be called imported “slaves of America”!”
Donald Trump sounds like the shepherd boy who cried “wolf! Wolf!”too often
Trump’s bravado is all bully … His talk of Tariffs, Tariffs , Tariffs reminds me of that old story about that mischievous shepherd who kept threatening villagers with shouts of “wolf, wolf, wolf” … We know what happened to him when the wolf really turned up to devour his sheep but then the villagers simplyContinue reading “Donald Trump sounds like the shepherd boy who cried “wolf! Wolf!”too often”
Is the new POTUS trying to act smart by wanting to outsource America’s higher education ?
Watch this video clip below and listen very carefully to what the new POTUS is saying. So what’s Trump’s plan then ?! America will lure the crème de la creme of human talent from everywhere else in the world and leave nations impoverished of its best and brightest intellectual capital ? And if America isContinue reading “Is the new POTUS trying to act smart by wanting to outsource America’s higher education ?”
“American Exceptionalism” in U.S. Stock Markets: and what Ruchir Sharma forgot to explain to me
https://acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:sc:AP:860c0e68-c8f1-460d-a8ba-c8e4d85ecd57 Ruchir Sharma’s above Op-Ed piece in the London Financial Times ends with this grim foreboding : I would like to think perhaps Ruchir Sharma inadvertently forgot to add that America is also over-indebted as never, never seen before… The omission therefore begs the question : why are we seeing today the strange phenomenon ofContinue reading ““American Exceptionalism” in U.S. Stock Markets: and what Ruchir Sharma forgot to explain to me”
The Presidential Pardon Joe Biden gave his son and the Doctrine of “Saranagathi” in Vedantic Theology
Reminds me of how in the Mahabharata, King Dhritarashtra was ready to grant pardon to his beloved son Duryodhana for every misdeed of his. A father’s love for a son is blind … more blind than the mother’s even… and Queen Gandhari seems to have exemplified that truth! My knowledge of law is very limitedContinue reading “The Presidential Pardon Joe Biden gave his son and the Doctrine of “Saranagathi” in Vedantic Theology”
The lecture I’d like to give to Prof.Christopher Robichaud, Harvard Ethics Professor on “MAGA”
If you scroll right down below ⬇️ you’ll be able to read the dirge written by a Harvard Professor of Ethics that struck me as nothing but the ravings of a bad loser going around breast-beating and wailing the defeat of the Democrats in the just concluded U.S. Presidential election 2024. https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/christopher-robichaud If I wereContinue reading “The lecture I’d like to give to Prof.Christopher Robichaud, Harvard Ethics Professor on “MAGA””
Pollsters or Scamsters ?
What’s very clear now and stands confirmed beyond doubt — after the Trump win today — is that the entire global pollster and psephology profession is nothing but a scam . We all here in India saw that fact stand starkly exposed in the 2024 Lok Sabha election and the Haryana Assembly election . AmericanContinue reading “Pollsters or Scamsters ?”