“Teaching critical thinking” can sometimes be a cover for “teaching kids to question traditional values, and to accept our point of view instead” (i.e. leftism). But there’s no question that if it is used to refer to helping students get … Continue reading →
Watch. Here’s his website to do just that. I wonder—would this be a good video to send to liberal friends who seem amenable to persuasion? [Hat tip: commenter “carl in atlanta.”]
Continue reading →Ah, doesn’t it sound like enormous fun to be a college student in the era of the casual hookup? Not. Oh, I know some people find it fun. Or perhaps they just tell themselves they find it fun. And I … Continue reading →
Darned if I know. Michael Totten doesn’t know, either, nor does anyone except a few North Koreans (and maybe not even them). But he makes some interesting speculations here.
Continue reading →I know, I know. You look down on “American Idol,” think it’s trash, yada yada yada. Well, sometimes I watch it for fun, along with other fluff du jour, despite the fact that I’m not ordinarily all that keen on … Continue reading →
…continues to be one of the few MSM figures with integrity: Since the murder trial of Pennsylvania abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell began March 18, there has been precious little coverage of the case that should be on every news show … Continue reading →
Jonathan S. Tobin has a piece in Commentary entitled, “The Media Can’t Bury McConnellgate”: Is it ever okay to bug an opponent’s political headquarters? Even those who are too young to remember what happened when officials connected with Richard Nixon’s … Continue reading →
Heather Wilhem rightly skewers an idea that has long seemed to me absurd on its face (and that many women, and even some men, seem to believe): that if women were in charge of the world, it would somehow be … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: “Gringo.”] Here’s an update on Tom Lehrer, that bitingly sarcastic troubadour of the 50s and 60s. But because he’s a reclusive sort, the article really doesn’t have all that much to say except that at 85 he’s alive … Continue reading →
…is not exactly a font of wisdom when it comes to strategy. Or is it tactics? I think tactics. Or maybe both. [NOTE: See this and this.]
Continue reading →Commenter “Mike” quotes me in a previous post, and adds his reaction: “In high school we were assigned to read Crime and Punishment, as well as the “Grand Inquisitor” excerpt from Karamazov, and in college I read his chilling work … Continue reading →
Interesting.
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