Jim Kelly
The problem with progressives
Here in San Francisco, critiquing progressivism will come across like asking if we should keep breathing oxygen. It's something one...
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Jim Kelly
- Dec 12, 2020
- 8 min
Is climate change real? How to decide for yourself.
How do you figure out the truth of any topic these days, much less one as deep and technical as climate change? I read many points of...
Jim Kelly
- Dec 6, 2020
- 9 min
Is your workplace getting too woke? How to speak up.
"Thank goodness you're out there saying these things. I wish I could speak up, but I can't afford to be fired." Public speakers on the...
Jim Kelly
- Sep 6, 2020
- 3 min
Orienting yourself in the upside-down world of White Fragility
DiAngelo claims she wants to help help blacks catch up, but she exhorts only whites to raise their game.
Jim Kelly
- Sep 3, 2020
- 5 min
How a mayor asks for help: San Francisco's gyms still closed
Back in March, Mayor London Breed ordered gyms closed for public health reasons. City Hall later published a timetable by which San...
Jim Kelly
- Jun 22, 2020
- 3 min
Exposing the Southern Poverty Law Center
They're not creating a more tolerant society but an army of missionaries for the evangelical left, spreading the gospel of woke intolerance.
Jim Kelly
- Jun 13, 2020
- 3 min
End the police monopoly
We want police reform. Ending their monopoly should be the first step.
Jim Kelly
- May 18, 2020
- 1 min
Tough questions for London Breed
The tough questions citizens should be demanding answers to from SF's mayor and health officials.
Jim Kelly
- Apr 19, 2020
- 2 min
San Francisco's lockdown tightens
If the lockdown was working, why is City Hall issuing new demands on suffering citizens?
Jim Kelly
- Feb 20, 2020
- 3 min
The questions you should ask about diversity
Do you really understand what diversity promoters are after?
Jim Kelly
- Feb 18, 2020
- 4 min
Will automation put us all out of jobs? Let's hope so.
Fewer people having to toil their days away is good news, not bad.
Jim Kelly
- Feb 15, 2020
- 6 min
The case for closing America's prisons
We're so used to locking people up that it's hard to imagine there are better alternatives.
Jim Kelly
- Feb 2, 2020
- 5 min
Socialism caused the financial crash
The primary blame belongs with the Federal Reserve, Washington's Soviet commissar of the money.
Jim Kelly
- Jan 26, 2020
- 8 min
How to end San Francisco's homelessness epidemic
The homeless need homes. But even more, they need a new level of honesty from the rest of us.
Jim Kelly
- Jan 19, 2020
- 4 min
Does the left really care about the poor?
People on the left claim to care about the poor. But where is the curiosity? The attention to consequences and outcomes?
Jim Kelly
- Jan 5, 2020
- 5 min
San Francisco's make-believe homeless strategy
If you improve the service you provide, should you expect fewer customers? That is the bet San Francisco, along with many other American...
Jim Kelly
- Nov 27, 2019
- 4 min
The fatal flaw of Medicare for All
Why Medicare has failed to contain healthcare costs, and why Medicare for All won't do any better.
Jim Kelly
- Nov 16, 2019
- 6 min
How to get promoted
Stop trying to please your boss. Here's how promotions really get decided and how to set yourself up for one.
Jim Kelly
- Nov 4, 2019
- 7 min
Elizabeth Warren's Anti-Democratic Platform
Senator Warren and her colleagues are operating an enormous, ongoing prisoner's dilemma experiment in which we're all the subjects.
Jim Kelly
- Oct 19, 2019
- 6 min
How to talk to the right about climate
An invisible credibility gap keeps the left from getting through to the right about climate. Here's how to reach across it.
The issues of our time aren't that confusing
We live in disorienting times, when society is split by big arguments about economics and politics. Misinformation is everywhere--in fact the loudest voices often know the least.
But most issues aren't really that complicated. We've just forgotten the centuries-old basic ideas of classical liberalism. When we dust them off and apply them to the big questions of today, it gets much easier to figure out which end is up on virtually any issue.