Jeremy Carl

Senior Fellow Claremont Institute (npub1uca…uz3u). Former Research Fellow Hoover Institution (npub1dla…v3q0) and U.S. Dep. Asst. Sec. of the Interior. Esse quam videri.
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2025-11-05 15:42:41 UTC

Can't tell the GOP Senators whether they should abolish the filibuster. That's a call way above my pay grade.
But I can say that if they *don't* want to abolish the filibuster, they better be sure they have a rock solid coalition of enough Democrats who will publicly commit to

2024-12-26 18:29:17 UTC

This is a revealing take from @npub17xj…h8rf , and probably (judging from other comments from others on X and my own extensive personal experience with Indian Americans in Silicon Valley) fairly representative.
Before I get into why it is fundamentally wrong in its most important particulars, let me give it its limited due: Yes, the most talented American kids probably need to work harder academically. Our public school system, especially, is generally a disaster, which I can say with some confidence having five kids currently in it We need to fix it, and universal school choice will do a lot to get us there.
However, having competed successfully with the top of the talent stack (my wife and I have five top-tier Ivy League degrees between us) and having seen what that looks like up close and made the choice to largely opt-out for our own five kids, I think Vivek seems to have a misapprehension about the roots of American success.
I knew lots of parents who made their kids *grind* and yes, I did look down on them and did not aspire to that for my own kids. I did this for many reasons-- first, I saw the massive burnout among such kids, even the "successful" ones who I went to school with. I didn't want that to happen to my kids. A career is an important part of most people's lives. But it is not, with rare, rare exceptions, life itself. And you don't need to train most people, even at the top of your talent stack, to be those rare, rare exceptions.
Second, countries that push children to an extreme, like South Korea and China, have miserable kids and collapsing fertility. And the next generation is ultimately what we're all playing for.
Third, the elite culture of these countries, (including India, where I have lived) often encourages ruthlessness, lack of ethics, and rampant cheating in a desperate quest to get ahead. This ultimately bleeds over to the professional world, where IP theft and research fraud from countries like China is rampant. Of course, we're not perfect in this regard either, but we're a heck of a lot better than our competition and it's a key comparative advantage for America.
Fourth, I don't think the kind of training that Vivek seems to aspire to has created the dynamism that powered success in Silicon Valley or anywhere else in America. Yes, some of the people from grind culture played useful technical roles-- but these companies were often founded by brilliant dropouts and iconoclasts-- not the guy who always listened to his teacher, studies eight hours a day, and did #1 on the test.
America's willingness to embrace dynamism and risk-- to have a society in which the rule of the law is honored (though Democrats have badly eroded this in recent years) and our unique culture, ultimately derived from Europe but strengthened with our own unique pioneering American qualities, has made us so successful.
It's why far, far more people want to come here than anywhere else, and why our tech companies are far more successful than those anywhere else-- and this was true before we had mass H-1Bs-- and I am confident it will be true after we shut the door on this ill-advised policy.
What Vivek is proposing, however sincerely intentioned, would destroy the things that actually make America great.
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