…but even that is Trump’s fault. Trump provides a convenient reductionist Theory of Everything Wrong With the World. Excerpt: …New York Times Opinion staff writer and editor Bari Weiss openly admitted to the Reliable Sources panel that the media was … Continue reading →
[WARNING: Trivial whining and carping about minor problems ahead. Or, you can just jump to the video at the end.] It’s not that my day so far has been bad. It’s just—well—you be the judge. A while back I was … Continue reading →
Whenever I see a comparison of abortion rates in the pre-Roe v. Wade past and abortion rates since it’s been legal in this country, I think of a book I read long ago. It was a memoir by a woman … Continue reading →
Yesterday I started reading this National Review piece by Charles C. W. Cooke criticizing Max Boot’s recent fault-finding with National Review. I thought it might be subject matter for a post, but I didn’t have much interest in it after … Continue reading →
I had said that Part II of “A sample of Utopian leftist thought” probably would be coming today. But I’m postponing it, probably till Monday I’ve got some big family events this weekend.
Continue reading →Suicide by hanging. I doubt anyone who didn’t already think that Epstein was a suicide will be convinced by the report. I already was leaning somewhat in the suicide direction and still am. But I also believe there was a … Continue reading →
….and is pretty darn pleased with what it sees, for the most part. Just needing a little tweaking to get the narrative right. The link above is to a Slate article about a session Times executive editor Dean Baquet had … Continue reading →
Yesterday, Israel denied visas for Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, after pressure from Trump, under a law permitting the government to bar entry to advocates of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. However, Tlaib asked to being allowed … Continue reading →
Utopia for Realists. If that book title sounds like an oxymoron, it certainly doesn’t to its author Rutger Bregman: Imagining utopia, writes Dutch historian Rutger Bregman, “isn’t an attempt to predict the future. It’s an attempt to unlock the future. … Continue reading →
It’s a funny thing. When I went to college many moons ago, we had boys’ dorms and girls’ dorms. Not only that, we called ourselves “boys” and “girls.” I had just turned seventeen when I went away to school, and … Continue reading →
[NOTE: Please see my earlier post on California’s proposed curriculum.] The pressure from the public worked—for now anyway: The California State Board of Education (SBE) announced on Aug. 12 that the proposed anti-Israel Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) will be … Continue reading →
Here’s an article at National Review by David French, who is not ordinarily a rabble-rouser. It begins this way: I just finished reading of the most astonishing legal briefs I’ve ever read. It is easily the most malicious Supreme Court … Continue reading →