Well, well, well. Yesterday Trump made quite an announcement: On Thursday, President Donald Trump announced that he would sign an executive order to launch a “1776 Commission” for American patriotism in education, countering the Marxist critical race theory of The … Continue reading →
Thinking more about the video I posted yesterday, I noticed this comment by “John Tyler”: No point in really in trying to understand what motivates the adherents of wokeness, Nazism, communism, ANTIFA’ism, BLM’ism, etc. , because any sentient carbon based … Continue reading →
Interesting: Trump Orders Purge of ‘Critical Race Theory‘ from Federal Agencies https://t.co/ygXcTXRHsQ via @BreitbartNews This is a sickness that cannot be allowed to continue. Please report any sightings so we can quickly extinguish! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, … Continue reading →
Commenter “Art Deco” writes (the first paragraph is a quote from a previous commenter}: “The point is that Leftist[s] are motivated by guilt towards blacks. And they demand other whites share in their guilt by mongering.” Rubbish. People who actually … Continue reading →
Let’s keep changing history until we get it right – I mean left – enough: From Rep. Ford’s press release: “Rep. Ford Today in Evanston to Call for the Abolishment of History Classes in Illinois Schools “Concerned that current school … Continue reading →
This new book by John M. Ellis certainly deals with a topic that’s timely – or actually, somewhat behind the times, because the damage the left has done to education has already been so great. Apparently, the last section of … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “Barry Meislin.”] This new piece by Alan Dershowitz is interesting to me for many reasons, not the least because he demonstrates his usual sense and yet continues to find it difficult to surrender his allegiance to the … Continue reading →
Meritocracy has been dying a slow and painful death for many many decades. It used to be a basic American value. I don’t know when that began to change, but the first thing I noticed along those lines was many … Continue reading →
And here we are, in a tremendous mess, according to Andrew C. McCarthy. Few on the right would disagree. I’ve been writing about the Gramscian march through education for well over a decade. Others have been writing for longer. It … Continue reading →
I’ve written about this before, but I want to mention it again, because if any of you have children or grandchildren or great-grandchildren in the school system, you need to be alert and aware of the fact that the current … Continue reading →
[NOTE: The following is a revised and updated version of a post I wrote over seven years ago, based on Allan Bloom’s book published in 1987.] I’ve written before about Allan Bloom’s masterful The Closing of the American Mind, published … Continue reading →
Trump dares to go there: President Donald Trump said Friday he is asking the Treasury Department to review the tax-exempt status of universities and school systems, suggesting in a tweet that too many were about “Radical Left Indoctrination, not Education.” … Continue reading →