Uniquely, the gun industry has legal immunity from the effects of its products. Imagine if pharma companies were shielded from the consequences of bad drugs or automakers from faulty engines. The same rules must apply to Smith & Wesson, American Outdoor Brands and other gun manufacturers.

The FT’s Editorial Board misses to note that, unlike drug toxicity and engine breakdowns, committing mass murder is the sole intended purpose of automatic and semi-automatic weapons. America is no stranger to regulation: you may not, for example, cut people’s hair without a state-issued license. That people of any age can just walk into a store and buy a weapon of mass destruction is a crime against humanity and should be treated as such.

That’s one good-looking pig. www.ft.com/content/8…

“We all got fooled by the 1990s . . . We got fooled into thinking that liberal democracy is easy and natural. It’s not — it’s hard and it’s unnatural. And so we need to start taking it seriously.”

This interview with Haidt is outstanding. Must get the new book once it’s out.

“There can be found, inside every American, a miniature Puritan yearning to grow large and seize control.”

Martin Gurri tells it like it is.

“So, Barack Obama has taken up fighting disinformation. NYT notes how his administration didn’t regulate tech. When I started writing about it, a decade ago, the pushback I got from the Obama universe was intense, and is hinted at the below profile of me.”

So starts a Twitter thread from Zeynep Tufekci on groupthink of an administration. Maybe he should have jumped straight to narrating Netflix docu-series.

“Whatever its flaws, the NBA is one of the more functional institutions in American society.”

Yes! And Jokić is the MVP.

“We live in Applicatia, a world where people must spend their days improving their resumes in the hope of improving their lives…”

This is from Experimental History, my new favorite newsletter.

“This is the question that haunts me: How much genius are we losing to the compulsive need to scroll just a little bit more?”

Cal Newport has a point.

Inside the Virus-Hunting Nonprofit at the Center of the Lab-Leak Controversy This gun isn’t smoking, it’s on fire 📰

Putin’s useful German idiots 📰

This is not limited to Putin. Germany has a rich history of enabling petty autocrats world wide, including the Balkans.