Great weekend at the Nevill Holt Festival. Also visited some friends in London.
“When professionals conclude that their advancement depends less on rigor than on ideological obedience, the best people leave, the cautious self-censor, the ambitious learn the wrong lessons, and the sycophantic losers rise to the top.”
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“In the hands of a political operative, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence can become a platform for laundering partisan narratives through the authority of classified information.”
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“If presidents continue to place incompetent leaders in the position, it would be better for everyone if they abolished the office altogether.”
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“It recasts professionalism as disloyalty and treats independent judgment as sabotage. It invites presidents to believe that any fact they dislike must have been produced by an enemy.”
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I think an adult version of a scholastic book fair would fix a lot of my problems.
