One of the problems with living in a society with no shared moral order is that we have no way to settle arguments. We have no objective standard by which to determine that one view is right and another view is wrong. So public arguments just go on indefinitely, at greater levels of indignation and polarization. People use self-righteous words to try to get their way, but instead of engaging in moral argument, what they’re really doing is using the language of morality to enforce their own preferences.

The episode that led to Mr. Penny’s trial occurred in May 2023, when he boarded an uptown train and encountered Jordan Neely, a former Michael Jackson impersonator, who yelled about his hunger, wanting to return to jail, and not caring if he lived or died, behavior that some witnesses had described as frightening. Mr. Penny approached Mr. Neely and put him in a chokehold, taking him to the floor. A four-minute video of the encounter quickly circulated online.

By contrast, the state-space complexity for chess is 10¹²⁰

Unlike Tiffany or De Beers, top-ranked universities don’t promote themselves as avatars of exclusivity.

For example, one provision could be read to bar corporations from political activity if they have even a single foreign shareholder.

“independent” commissions,

H.R. 1 would upend that balance for no good reason,

stepped-up basis loophole

Bonus UI money, in particular, phased out and in and down and up in a crazy, unprincipled way which would have induced extra anxiety over and above the administrative problems.

The peak protection is at four weeks

By one estimate America would gain a net 300,000 jobs if it got rid of its local-content rules.

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Sixty percent of all people experiencing homelessness are male.  Amongst individuals, the numbers are starker—70 percent are men and unaccompanied male youth.