sanitizing Roald Dahl

Characters can be “enormous” but not “fat.” They can be “small” but not “tiny.” Women can be “kind” but not “attractive” and “ugly” but not “fearfully” so.

Before we were told not to worry about inflation, we were told not to worry about federal debt and deficits. (In many cases, the same people did the telling.) But debt and deficits, like inflation, don’t care what we were told and continue to be told. Their impact isn’t subject to the intellectual whims of the day, even if those whims are expressed by EconTwitter.

The U.S. Supreme Court has thrown open the once impenetrable blockade on state abortion regulations with its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, and now the battle over do-it-yourself home abortions using abortion pills is heating up. Abortion pills are responsible for approximately 50% of American abortions annually.