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Donors put their money behind those whose mouths have been closed by the university
The rampant political correctness, wokeness, and demands for 'equity' all disguised under sanctimonious doublespeak from university...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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November 2021: Climate derangement syndrome
Brendan O'Neill. Climate derangement syndrome. Spiked. 5 November 2021. Climate change is going to be worse than the Holocaust. It will...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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Tony Heller does it again
October 8, 2021. Dramatic climate change during the 1990s Look at two images below. The top graph plots data recognizing the Medieval...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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Maid: Bad choices -- not bad policies -- create poverty
Poverty is most often the result of poor choices, not of capitalism. In fact, capitalism has been the greatest eradicator of poverty the...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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What the 2000 climate report got wrong
Plenty, including the key, basic prediction. Watch the critique here. In the year 2000, the U.S. government's Global Change Research...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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Joy of autumn in Eden and Harrison
Appleton weather surged -- oh how I despise that word -- into autumn overnight. The house was a chill 65 degrees. There must have been at...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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October 2021: Nine months, 859 miles; ten months, 940 miles
I am still on track for 1100 miles this year, and 2400 miles over the last two years. Even yesterday, with no formal exercise planned, I...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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My life in academe: WSJ misses the point on college costs
When I was dean at Loyola and the college market was growing like Amazon or Tesla stock, Loyola was one of the school that chose to...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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'Equity' is communism, not socialism
In class, it was a simple illustration of social justice, and how and where it can be defined: First, in terms of opportunity, or inputs....

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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(The joy of) approaching Medicare
With the coming year I will be fully engaged with Medicare. Ive had Medicare A for the past five years. On January 1, 2022, I will...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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Saturday morning in our new home
Time for some reflections on the 'joy of life after 65,' living in Harrison as empty nesters. Even with the absence of a work schedule,...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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Getting it wrong on "sustainability"
By now it has become all-to-familiar, with outrageous claims of portending disasters, followed by tyrannical edicts from the aloof,...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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The "bad times" aren't as bad as we have been told
Look at the progress we've made in the past two centuries. As much as Covid deaths have been greatly exaggerated and used as a basis for...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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American ecological history didn't start just forty years ago
Funny how easily you can claim "first time in history" or "worst in history" if you start marking time in 1979. Per Tony Heller: "In...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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Thomas Sowell on Wealth Creation, Human Capital & Colonialism
Thomas Sowell on Wealth Creation, Human Capital & Colonialism. Thomas Sowell on American Interests (1983) discussing how to create...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20232 min read
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Bill Mazeroski and the Pirates triumph in the 1960 World Series
In October 1960, I had just turned nine. I heard a lot about the Pittsburgh Pirates from my Aunt Ann when we visited Pittsburgh, probably...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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Eden freshmen basketball, 1965-66, and more
Yes, that's me in the front row, black socks. Such a nerd. Did any of the fourteen teenagers pictured here have any idea of where we'd...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20234 min read
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The 97% myth demythified
Did you ever wonder as to the source of the "97% of scientists" claim about 'climate change'? Dr. John Robson investigates the unsound...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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Personal prosperity: It's a matter of degrees
In my days as an experienced business dean, often considering subsequent administrative appointments, I developed the habit of describing...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20233 min read
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A meaningful carbon tariff
A better way to save the planet -- for everybody, for good, and for less.... Four years ago, SOCIETY published my simple yet politically...

Peter Lorenzi
Feb 23, 20231 min read
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