Before starting, which data sources would you consider reliable?

Nothing is more important than short term grasp of power, is that your point? I hold Americans in general in much higher esteem. There’s nothing like coming home having achieved “peace for our time” and holding onto power. Look at Chamberlain’s example.

We are strong supporters of FIRE and contribute significantly. Your position on no intervention is impractical. Higher ed has had free rein for years, and we all see where that ends. Pleading for change hasn’t worked, obviously. Any intervention by definition is by mandate, economic incentives, or prohibition. Interventions can be undertaken by Congress, state governments, the President, or the courts. But each approach to outside intervention seemingly requires a form of state action and related viewpoint discrimination. The First Amendment should not be interpreted to ban remedies for violations of its terms. What is an effective path forward from the present enforced intellectual monoculture?

So, from a practical standpoint, you argue that having placed money into an ongoing business with employees, customers, lenders and suppliers (otherwise referred to as stakeholders), a business owner needs to forfeit perhaps a controlling share of that enterprise to be transparently ladled out by bureaucrats. It’s an argument, but whether society benefits remains an open question.

Every Time I Leave Minnesota.... healthy-skeptic.com/2026/01/… via @healthyskeptic_ Backing off enforcement will only reward the behavior you criticize. That dynamic is but human nature. The rioters’ mindset and related financing has festered and spread too long and too far. The rioters and those inciting them assert that naked “virtue” should trump long established law. Outright and prompt enforcement of democratically established law has to be a relentless process, else we lose democracy and individual rights altogether. The only path to change must be through transparent voting.

Every Time I Leave Minnesota.... healthy-skeptic.com/2026/01/… via @healthyskeptic_

Doubt it, given very recent wholesale and coordinated messaging from Democrat politicos, including Mamdani, Hochul, Pritzger, and Schumer among others, characterizing Hamas as a terrorist organization. Their polling obviously demonstrates the contrary.