Safe spaces at Duke. Safe from thought, by way of purges: About 100 students and alumni have asked Duke University to reinstate a professor whose teaching style encourages students to think critically about their opinions and opposing views. They believe … Continue reading →
And it’s not pretty: “Clapper is, indeed, a leaker and a liar. He is also a consummate slimy operative.” In case you don’t know who James Clapper is, he’s the former director of intelligence under President Obama. See this from … Continue reading →
Jonathan Turley is another writer—a lawyer—whose viewpoints especially interest me because he doesn’t parrot any party line. He’s mostly a libertarian, and as far as I can tell he tends to vote Democratic or libertarian. At any rate, he’s not … Continue reading →
…as long as the rapists are Black and/or Brown. This is not The Onion. This is for real: Women’s March doesn’t believe any person””no matter their crimes””should be dehumanized this way [referred to as “animals,” that is]. It is true … Continue reading →
…isn’t good for the gander. And the gander’s doing something about it.
Continue reading →It never seems to end, does it? I’ve written about this famous photograph several times before, at great length here for PJ Media, and also here and here on the blog.
Continue reading →That’s the title of this Atlantic article that caught my eye. Actually, it caught Pocket’s eye, which decided to recommend it to me on the basis of some algorithm or other. My immediate reaction was a stomach-churning “No!!” Hasn’t TV … Continue reading →
Worth watching:
Continue reading →I spend a lot of time reading the work of other writers on politics. Some of them—probably the vast majority—purport to be objective journalists but write with an obvious bias. What’s so obvious about it? Well, one thing is that … Continue reading →
I was thinking about Bernard Lewis the other day and wondering whether he was still alive, because I remembered that even at the time of 9/11 (when I’d first heard of him) he was already pretty old. I got my … Continue reading →
Retrievers retrieve: But how on earth does a deer get into the ocean? I’ve also seen retrievers nearly drown a person in their exuberant drive to retrieve that person.
Continue reading →Unlike Watergate, the current crisis in government/spying/politics doesn’t have a memorable name. But for those of us who lived through Watergate it has a certain resonance with that event as well as major differences, imparting a strange sense of familiarity, … Continue reading →