Michael Barone

Today is publication day for my new book Mental Maps of the Founders: How Geographic Imagination Guided America's Revolutionary Leaders. amazon.com/Mental-Maps-Fo… I'll be discussing it with Robert Doar at AEI's Hintz Book Forum this afternoon. aei.org/events/mental-…

@MichaelPDivita How does this compare with what Mayor Pete did?

With the approval of the Plan Commission and City Council, a new Downtown South Bend Plan has been adopted. The plan proposes reinvigorating the heart of downtown, attracting jobs using institutional catalysts, adding diverse infill housing, and enhancing the public realm.

@AlDefinitely Compare this map to Fremont 1856 or Lincoln 1860. The young Republican party's base of support for New England Yankees and their diaspora. Roosevelt was closer in time to Lincoln than he is to us.

I get that New England was rock-ribbed Republican back then but it just looks so weird that the ostensibly most liberal region of the country was always the worst one for the most liberal president at least up to that point.

@berningman16 @SlopHq I see parking there. For boats.

@SlopHq * Oracle Park enters the chat * x.com/BBGreatMoments…

every baseball stadium built after 1990 is surrounded by forty acres of parking lot that sits empty 280 days a year and we call this "economic development." wrigley is in a neighborhood. fenway is in a neighborhood. the sport was better when the stadiums were to

@Rickersam3 @JakeSherman The dowry of Charles II's consort, Catherine of Braganza, gave England Tangier and Bombay. England lost Tangier in 1684, but held onto Bombay until 1947--the year before Charles III was born.

@MichaelBarone @JakeSherman A founder of the Royal Africa company. There will be major protests!

🚨NEWS: WH expected to announce that KING CHARLES II will make a state visit next month. Likely to include address to joint session.

@daveweigel What I find interesting is the weak showing of current or ex statewide officeholders (Becerra, Thurmond, Yee) & ex-LA Mayor Villaraigosa. Familiarity breeds . . . . something other than support.

The six-candidate limit happened to cut out all of the non-white Dem candidates because they're polling behind the four Dem white candidates. Incredibly awkward

@Bencjacobs Don't let Charles II get anywhere near New Haven CT.

Really appalling human rights stand by the Trump administration to welcome a despot who is trying hunt down dissidents who have fled to the United States for safety. How can we keep William Goffe and Edward Whalley safe if we welcome Charles II to our shores?

@vanillaopinions In the late 18th and early 19th centuries many states moved their capitals away from the coast to more central locations. Albany, Harrisburg, Richmond, Raleigh, Columbia, etc. Theory was to make it geographically closer to current or eventual center of population.

the us state equivalent of this is even funnier. like why is springfield still the capital of illinois

@SidKhurana3607 You do realize, don't you, that this coincides almost exactly with the murder in Fall River of Lizzie Borden's parents, for which a jury found her not guilty?

Trivia: In 1890, what was the only city in the US in which foreign-born residents comprised a majority of the population?

@JakeSherman Better than mixing up the current monarch with Charles I.

King Charles III. not Charles II. The latter died 300 years ago. sorry.

@TPCarney @Hitchslap1 My explanation: women want to be understood, men want to be tolerted. It’s easier to feel tolerated than understood. You can spend decades without someone without fully understanding.

@Hitchslap1 Maybe: 1) Women cause most divorces. Double the women, double the divorce-causers. 2) M-M marriage selects for very domestic gays, because the gay-man culture is so promiscuous.

Lesbians have the least stable marriages. Gay men have the most stable marriages. I’m yet to hear a good explanation for this.

@PeterKinder Thanks to my friend Peter Kinder for his comments on my review of Christopher Cox's book on Woodrow Wilson. claremontreviewofbooks.com/southern-man/

Reading this superb review by my friend @MichaelBarone will learn ya more about Woodrow Wilson than any other piece of writing you’ll come across 🔽⏬️⏬️🔽

After 1,485 days of war in Ukraine and 19 days of war in Iran, uncertainty remains. But the achievements of the US and Israel are breathtaking. Some historic perspective in my latest Washington Examiner column. washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/column…

I found laptop note taking useless. I had a tendency to note, in abbreviated form, every sentence. It's the opposite of the late Meg Greenfield, who in meetings focused ferociously on the speaker, taking no notes but taking in every word and gesture. She missed nothing important.

Long ago when I was in college, laptops in the classroom were pretty rare. I had a desktop in my dorm but took all my class notes by hand, in cursive. ✍️

@SeanTrende @foam_boat Adorno's chair and (pre-computer) typewriter are on a chair on the lawn on the campus of Frankfurt University--on the onetime site of the IGFarben HQ. He wasn't the worst of the Frankfurt School.

@foam_boat I don't care I just thought it was funny/provocative. He's more worthless than evil.

Somewhere in hell, Theodor Adorno is hearing Chalamet's statement about opera and ballet and shouting "vindicated!"

@PatrickRuffini We may all have to shift to serif type faces for the sake of AI. When I type it in Calibri, I think I'm starting to type Florida Route A1A.

Guys, I think we might need a better way to differentiate AIPAC from AI PACs

@RealOlaudah The state of Alaska set up a Permanent Fund in the 1970s and it's still going. I assume the Norwegians were aware of the success of Alaska's experiment.

Norway Found Oil. Then Did the One Thing Most Countries Never Do In 1969, Norway discovered one of the largest offshore oil deposits in the world. The Ekofisk field changed everything. Suddenly, this small Scandinavian nation was sitting on extraordinary wealth. They could have done what most oil-rich countries do: * Spend it all immediately. * Build monuments. * Create economic bubbles. * Enrich a few while the many suffer. And when the oil runs out, collapse into debt and instability. Nigeria tried that. Venezuela tried that. Libya tried that. Norway looked at these cautionary tales and made a different choice. In 1990, the Norwegian Parliament created the Government Pension Fund Global. The rules were simple but revolutionary. All oil profits would flow into the fund. The fund would invest globally in thousands of companies. Norway could only withdraw a small percentage each year—originally 4% - now 3%. The rest would stay invested. Forever. People thought they were insane. Why hoard money for people who don't even exist yet? Why not lower taxes, build bigger programs, and enjoy the wealth right now? The Norwegian government had an answer... Because future Norwegians will exist. And they deserve this wealth as much as we do. In 1996, they deposited the first payment: $150 million. Then they did something even more remarkable...

@Noahpinion Mayor's orders? I doubt it's the police commissioner's.

It looks like antisemitic attacks have spiked so much in New York City that the NYPD changed how it reports hate crimes in order to hide the spike.