A few links for your Sunday morning:<\/p>\n
On the anniversary of last summer’s Unite the Right<\/a> rally, Adam Harris<\/a> of The Atlantic<\/em> <\/a>points out that the University of Virginia has a long history of racism<\/a>. \u00a0Kudos to former University President Teresa Sullivan<\/a> for commissioning the report discussed in the article<\/a> – more American institutions should uncover this history and consider ways to make things right.<\/p>\n Also in The Atlantic<\/em>, Caitlin Flanagan<\/a> writes that that “leftism” is “on the decline – and vulnerable” because Jordan Peterson is popular among right wingers and misogynists<\/a>. \u00a0Peterson, a Canadian professor, thinks women who wear makeup to work should expect sexual harassment because painting their lips red and applying rouge simulates sexual stimulation.<\/a>\u00a0 This generated a series of great responses: “Willfully Mistaking Derision for Fear<\/a>” from Scott Lemieux<\/a> at Lawyers, Guns and Money<\/a>;\u00a0<\/em>“The Left’s Contempt for Jordan Peterson is Perfectly Rational” from Eric Levitz<\/a> at New York Magazine<\/em><\/a>; and “Caitlin Flanagan Loves Jordan Peterson. \u00a0As Is To Be Expected<\/a>.” from Echidne at Echidne of the Snakes<\/em><\/a>. \u00a0This last includes a link to Echidne’s review<\/a> of Peterson’s self-help book<\/a>, which includes such banal advice as “stand up straight with your shoulders back” and “clean your room.”<\/p>\n Finally, some good news: Federal courts have blocked<\/a>, at least temporarily, construction on the Mountain Valley<\/a> and Atlantic Coast<\/a> pipelines in Virginia. \u00a0 Part of the problem: regulators ignore or change environmental rules<\/a> to allow these kinds of projects to go forward and government subsidizes these projects by forcing property owners to permit access to their land<\/a>. \u00a0These firms would never construct these pipelines if they had to pay the true cost, including land acquisition<\/a>. \u00a0I wonder where Martha Boneta<\/a> stands on this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A few links for your Sunday morning: On the anniversary of last summer’s Unite the Right rally, Adam Harris of The Atlantic points out that the University of Virginia has a long history of racism. \u00a0Kudos to former University President Teresa Sullivan for commissioning the report discussed in the article – more American institutions should […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunday-morning-coffee"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foggybottomline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}