[David Bernstein] Duke professor Georg Vanberg on ‘Democracy in Chains’

[Jonathan H. Adler] ‘Why have so many . . . embraced such a transparently flawed book?’

SHE KNOWS NOTHING ABOUT ECONOMICS. “MacLean’s suggestion that an economist’s use of the term ‘marginal revolution’ refers to a nefarious modern American political plot is no less ridiculous than had she suggested that a physicist’s use of the term ‘Newtonian revolution’ refers to a plot to stuff all cookies with filling made of figs.”

Don't MacLean on Me

IGNORANCE AND MENDACITY, THE TWIN WELLSPRINGS OF “SOCIAL JUSTICE” SCHOLARSHIP: Nancy MacLean Doesn’t Understand What James Buchanan Wrote. “If MacLean errs on so fundamental a matter as what Buchanan (and the typical economist generally) means by the term ‘allocation,’ she has earned everyone’s distrust in her skills as a scholar.”

Here are Two More Instances of Nancy MacLean’s Inexcusable Sloppiness. 

THIS IS STARTING TO REMIND ME OF THE MICHAEL BELLESILES SAGA:[David Bernstein] Did Nancy MacLean make stuff up in ‘Democracy in Chains’?

Equal time:  [Jonathan H. Adler] Nancy MacLean responds to her critics

HINT: IT’S NOT IN THE SOUTH. And the state with the most voter suppression is. . . “Voter suppression begins with eligibility, and New York’s parties have long history of trying to minimize participation in primaries.”

NEWS FROM BOSTON: Blue mayor bemoans hypocrisy of blue elitism.

VIRTUE SIGNALING HAS A PRICE: Action, meet consequence!

VOTING WITH THEIR FEET: Chicago only major U.S. city to lose population from 2015 to 2016.

IT’S COME TO THIS: Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant was cheered when she declared she has no Republican friends.

But this isn’t all that new; there’s a reason why veteran (conservative) journalist Harry Stein’s 2009 book was titled, I Can’t Believe I’m Sitting Next To A Republican.

The smartest people on the planet want to oppose Trump & the best they can come up with is a march in support of themselves?

“MAYBE INSTEAD OF TRYING TO CONVINCE HATEFUL WHITE PEOPLE, DEMS SHOULD CONVINCE OUR BASE — PPL OF COLOR, WOMEN — TO TURN OUT. CATER TO THEM:” The 10 Most Hysterical Liberal Responses To Karen Handel’s Win In GA-6.

NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINE TODAY: Democrats Seethe After Georgia Loss: ‘Our Brand Is Worse Than Trump.’ When exactly are Democrats not seething? UPDATE: Again with the rage and the seething: In Trump Era, the Mean Streak of the Celebrity Liberal Is Out of Control. 

Jon Ossoff spent six times more than Karen Handel but complains about ‘money in politics’ Really, his contributors ought to be the ones complaining. 

THE NEW RULES: Nebraska Dem. Official on Scalise: ‘I’m Glad He Got Shot … I Wish He Was F*cking Dead’

and in case you missed it Washington Times reporting that “Senate announces probe of Loretta Lynch behavior in 2016 election.”

Four years ago:  Why won't Congress get out of Obama's way.  HE's the President. 

Four minutes ago:  Why won't Congress step in a stop Trump from doing stupid stuff?  He's only one guy.  

paraphrased only slightly

ON THIS DAY IN 1969: “Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy of Massachusetts drives an Oldsmobile off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car accident for 10 hours.”

Still though, as Charles Piece of Esquire infamously wrote in the Boston Globe in 2003, “If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”

America’s First Great Eclipse: How Scientists, Tourists, and the Rocky Mountain Eclipse of 1878 Changed Astronomy Forever. 

Duh.  U.S. history curricula isn’t gender ‘inclusive’

Murrow ‘risked his career to confront demagogic Joe McCarthy’? Hardly

THAT MEANS IT’S WORKING: 41% of US Counties Could Have Only One Obamacare Insurer Next Year.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: No, Obamacare Repeal Will Not Kill Tens of Thousands.

and a brief Gard roundup:

6/28:  Terminally ill baby Charlie Gard’s parents ‘utterly distraught’ after losing final appeal in European court – meaning their son’s life support WILL be switched off.

6/29: Government Medicine: Court Declares Child Should Die Rather Than Receive Privately-Funded Health Care

6/30: SINGLE PAYER: Devastated parents of Charlie Gard spend their last night with their baby and blast ‘heartless’ doctors for refusing to let them take him home to die before they turn off his life support later today.

7/1: EUROPE: A BABY IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH BY SOCIALIZED MEDICINE:

7/3: BUT I WAS TOLD THAT DEATH PANELS WERE MERELY A PRODUCT OF SARAH PALIN’S FERVID IMAGINATION: Yanking Life Support From UK Baby Demonstrates Dangers Of Socialized Medicine.

Related: Trump offers US help to UK baby on life support.

UPDATE: As one Twitter user adds, “Call me cynical, but I get the feeling the Gard story isn’t getting much attention because it’s a bit inconvenient during health care debate.”

7/4: CHARLIE MARTIN: Charlie Gard vs. the Know-Betters.

7/10:  Parental and Governmental Authority in Medical Decisions: The Tragic Case of Charlie Gard

and ANNALS OF GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE: Mother of Terminally Ill British Baby Child Charlie Gard Says Trump, Pope Attention ‘Saved’ Son.

WHAT A WEASEL: Rockville Superintendent: Complaining about illegals raping students is racist.

(from last April) NEW SECURITY MEASURES FOR DISNEY’S MAGIC KINGDOM START MONDAY. “Visitors to Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom will go through metal detectors and get bags checked at the Transportation and Ticket Center starting Monday.”

Really? You mean can’t just walk past the borders in front of a location owned by Disney without being screened first? That seems to be inconsistent with the opinions on border security held by their news division — though not by President Clinton, oddly enough.

BECAUSE LEFTIST POLTICS: “Why is it, exactly, ‘immoral’ for a nation to have a certain preference as to whom it allows to migrate in?” But it’s nice that New York Times readers are asking this question.

THEY TOLD ME IF TRUMP WERE ELECTED, PRIVILEGED WHITE PEOPLE WOULD FEEL FREE TO ABUSE IMMIGRANTS. AND THEY WERE RIGHT: Nikki Haley: People Said ‘Hateful Things to Me and My Family’ at NYC Pride Parade. It’s as if they’re just a front group for the left.

DON’T LOOK NOW, BUT WHILE TRUMP WAS BUSY TWEETING MEAN THINGS ABOUT THE MSM, House passes Kate’s Law, as part of illegal immigrant crackdown.  On to the Senate.

THE DEATH OF A MYTH: Scientists Map The Genome Of Ancient Egyptian Kings, And They Weren’t From Africa.

“TWITTER HAS A REMARKABLE POWER TO MAKE WELL-CREDENTIALED PEOPLE LOOK LIKE FOOLS:” Six Ways Harvard’s Joyce Chaplin Is Wrong About the Creation of the U.S.

Credentialed-but-not-educated, to coin an Insta-leitmotif. Fortunately, Ted Cruz helpfully explains early American history to the James Duncan Phillips Professor of Early American History at Harvard University in 140 easy to follow characters.

ANDREW KLAVAN: How the Media Covered the Giffords Shooting  ... and this ROSS DOUTHAT: Notes on a Political Shooting.

JEFF DUNETZ: YEARS BEFORE TRUMP RAN, DEMOCRATS LABELED REPUBLICANS AS SUB-HUMAN HATERS.

Jeff’s article only goes back a decade or so, but FDR was retroactively insinuating that Calvin Coolidge a Nazi in 1944, and Walter Cronkite was doing the same to Barry Goldwater 20 years later. A lie repeated for a three-quarters of a century by the side of the aisle that controls the culture just might gain a bit of traction eventually