Overnight News: Evil is simply the weeds that shoot up where goodness goes uncultivated.

I will give you a way of understanding good and evil that should make things easier to understand, if not to abide.

Like this: When you are confronted with inexplicably evil conduct, entertain this thought:

“How tragic it is that there is no one in your life who would be ashamed to see you behaving this way.”

If you say those words out loud, you might get punched, but just by silently intoning them you will have fully-explained your situation: Well-brought-up adults are good by habit, not by repeated resolutions. But they are good by habit because, as children, they did not want to disappoint someone – typically a parent or grandparent.

All of “high-trust” civilization is built on good fathering, and everything everyone decries in the thoughtless or predatory behaviors of modernity emerges from our having undermined fatherhood.

How to fix the mess from here? No need. Just get out of dad’s way. He’ll take care of everything.

In other news:

CNBC: Bidding wars are off the charts, as home listings fall to a record low. Flash news from a grunt on the ground: The worm has turned on inventory.

king5.com: More businesses flee Seattle because of crime and violence. At least 160 businesses have left the city since last March.

New York Post: Millennials buying cheap old homes to escape pandemic cages.

Human Events: Disney Amongst Potential Mass Exodus of Businesses From California.

City Journal: Deficits Don’t Matter—Until They Do: We should be wary about dismissing risks that no longer seem relevant; eventually, they reemerge.

Seth Barron: Cuomo Unmasked: The New York governor’s long-running media celebration was largely based on a fiction—his dramatic understatement of Covid-19 deaths in nursing homes.