There is no coherent Christian argument that the death penalty is immoral. God prescribes it for a whole host of crimes in the Old Testament. So if your position is that it is fundamentally evil to execute someone, then you must be saying either that the Old Testament is not the word of God, or that God was morally confused, or that the inherent morality of the action has changed, rendering vast swaths of Scripture irrelevant. None of those positions are compatible with Christianity. I understand that some Christians try to get around this by claiming that the death penalty was "necessary" a long time ago but isn't necessary anymore. I'm afraid this argument doesn't remotely work. The death penalty is very explicitly prescribed as a matter of JUSTICE in the Bible, not out of "necessity." So, again, either the Bible is just flatly wrong, or God was flatly wrong, or the inherent essence of morality and justice has changed. Basic Christian theology does not leave any of those options open to you.

So much of popular narrative (China, minimum wages, climate damage, inequality) turns out to be wrong. Yet economics and politics doesn't pay much attention to replication. Honestly wrong. Authors can do their best and still end up with wrong results. But a "scientific" profession and polity should pay attention to replication.

FT: Amazon seeks to offload $8 billion worth of Nvidia chips to investors through a new vehicle to strengthen its balance sheet. $AMZN $NVDA

noah literally can’t conceive of the modal life of an american twentysomething who literally can’t afford a mcmansion and is unafraid of chinese state socialism chiefly because of how badly the US economic system is working for them

I think that the Cornell university fraternity president disinviting Lucy from the Halloween party triggered this series of events. Prior to that she felt both taken advantage of and responsible/embarrassed Both true. Being disinvited put a scarlet letter on her ie: this isn’t a mistake you should all wear - you’re just a slut who shouldn’t come around I honestly think if they’d let her go to that party and been welcoming and showed her support she would have moved on What she couldn’t do was allow herself to be branded as the gang bang slut barred from the frat house Huge mistake

Jon Ossoff chats with longtime morning radio host Frank Ski: I spoke to a group of young people yesterday and some of them told me they were feeling despair. And I was very blunt with them that despair is an indulgence. Despair is a luxury that we can't afford.

Well, this is sad and terrible: “Many experts believe that estrangements between adult children and their parents are becoming an epidemic in the U.S.” “Psychologists say young adults’ definition of harmful parental behavior is changing.” They “consider ordinary conflict to be much worse than it once was” and “have a much broader definition than their elders of psychological harm.” “Many now view repeated criticism, strong disagreements and other painful relationship conflicts as abusive.” “In their minds, they see themselves as more enlightened and therefore more justified to cut off for more reasons.”