Media desk: Left’s Speech-Suppression Love
How does the left “ignore and even justify” revelations that Twitter “ ‘shadow-banned,’ restricted and even flat-out blocked access” to conservative content, asks Larry Elder at Creators. How does it “ignore real ‘election interference’ and this blatant attack to manipulate information to alter what we read, how we think and how we vote?” Some on the left dismiss it by noting Twitter’s a private company, yet they “see no problem using government” to force private companies to provide health insurance etc. Besides, “it’s one thing to suppress conservative content”; it’s quite another “to deny” doing it, as Twitter execs did. Then again, on “one level,” the revelations are good news: They show “the American Left is not quite as blind on many issues as conservatives think.”
Schools beat: A Life-or-Death Fight for Choice
A recent New York Times article offering “even-handed” coverage of charter schools — noting they typically outperform district schools, for instance — “is not the type” of news readers of papers like that often see, marvels The Wall Street Journal’s Jason L. Riley. And its “timing is superb because attacks on school choice have escalated.” President Biden has deviated from the bipartisan support charters enjoyed from his four predecessors, and they’re also “fighting for survival in the courts”: This year, a federal appeals court upheld a ruling against a North Carolina charter’s right to set a dress code, and next month, the Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case. “Charter advocates . . . understand that this isn’t really about school uniforms. It’s about school choice.”
Social critic: Affirmative Action’s False Hope
“Affirmative action isn’t the remedy for” America’s persisting racial inequalities, thunders Glenn C. Loury at City Journal: “It’s a distraction.” Yes, it “helps to obtain an adequate representation of diverse ethnic groups at elite institutions of higher education.” But “it imposes serious costs” — such as black students knowing they’re “being judged by standards that are different and less rigorous.” “Head counts are no substitute for performance.” But our elite educational institution ask us “to believe . . . that the nonacademic qualities” they desire “just happen to manifest themselves at a vastly higher rate among African-Americans than they do among Asian-Americans.” Why? “Because there’s a political understanding that what we need to do to deal with the legacy of slavery and racism is to patronize blacks. And that makes me angry.”
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From the right: Trump’s Stock in Freefall
If Donald Trump were a financial stock, “he made a big bet on DJT shares just as they were about to tank,” muses the Washington Examiner’s Hugo Gurdon, in launching his 2024 bid. At his launch announcement, “he looked like the chairman of a company struggling to explain to skeptical shareholders why he had just made a questionable strategic acquisition.” Rather than an “act of confidence,” it was “an act of bravado.” Soon afterward, “setbacks tumbled down on him in an avalanche” — made “worse by lunching with Kanye West, an outspoken antisemite, and Nick Fuentes, a white supremacist.” Recent pollwing indicates “Republican and conservative independents increasingly want Trumpism without Trump.” And even if he can turn his political stock around, “the bust is staring him in the face.”
Conservative: Why Tulips Beat NFT & Crypto
“Some of the hot new concepts in the financial-investment world are not tangible,” cries National Review’s Jim Geraghty. Look at “something called ‘NFT,’ non-fungible token.” The cryptographic asset is described as a “unique” data file “that cannot be duplicated,” but with art like “a Picasso painting, you get an actual painting.” At their peril, investors in the volatile cryptocurrency and NFT markets ignore that “there’s nothing actually tangible about any of this stuff.” In the famous 17th-century Dutch tulip mania, by contrast, “when the bubble burst, you were left with an actual tulip.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
