Showing posts with label Charles Mackay. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles Mackay. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Bill Kristol and leftists of his ilk are numbskulls on birthright citizenship, which 83% of the world eschews unlike us

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   ... One of my  critics  on the “conservative” Left who once claimed to be an originalist illustrates the point. He says that the simple...
Sunday, January 19, 2025

Tulip Mania returns in the Trump nutball era

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Men think in herds and go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one

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Wednesday, May 3, 2023

Besides their bad character, what do Trump and Obama have in common in 2009 and 2020?

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 Trump and Obama signed off on the two most fiscally irresponsible periods in post-war history, and Biden two years in looks set to join the...
Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The points made by the psychiatrist on the Clay and Buck Show sounded like they were taken almost verbatim from journalist Charles Mackay's 1841 Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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  I hope that psychiatrist's new book, buy it now!, properly credits The Science ™.
Monday, September 27, 2021

The India variant never matched the UK variant globally, which peaked in April, despite people like Anthony Fauci falsely claiming the level of Delta in the airways was 1,000 times higher

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The CDC's own data showed it was 10 times higher, but even at that Delta cases per million measured globally peaked way below "alph...
Thursday, October 5, 2017

How to prevent mass shootings

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Don't mass in the first place.
Thursday, August 17, 2017

Charles Mackay: Men think in herds, go mad in herds, but recover only one by one

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"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly...

Great minds: Just yesterday I was thinking the Charlottesville aftermath should be in Mackay's Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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