Derangement in politics

 A great thread about Andrew Sullivan and Sam Harris.

The boastful drug warrior

 He seems to gloat at the harshness. Here.  Of course, he makes an exception for his son.

Trump is no better on the drug war of course. 

WSW on 1619 Project

 An update from The World Socialist Website, following the Bret Stephens article.

 Aimed at propping up the 1619 Project, the statements from Sulzberger, Baquet and Silverstein have only added new layers of dishonesty. 

Link. 

Recovering Activist

 An interesting article by a quondam “neurodiversity activist”.

A Biden Email

 

Simplicity

An early chess problem, simplicity itself.

White to play and mate in 2

H., A.

Reynolds's Miscellany, 29 Aug 1868

I'm not telling! 

A little bit of chess problem history, with some nice problems. 

Decluttering

Herbert Grasemann, 1950

White to play and mate in 6

Solution follows ...

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The trick is to mate on g3. So checks on h3 and f1, twice, then Nf5.