[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 →
One of the benefits of YouTube is that it enables us to hear reasonable people talking reasonably about a host of topics that are usually discussed in a manner so unreasonable as to conjure up associations with the world in … Continue reading →
Give them numbers. That way the names will never have to be changed as the historical revisionists expand their targets – at least, I doubt that numbers will ever be their targets, although I wouldn’t put it past them. When … Continue reading →
This is scary stuff. They’re getting rid of the blasphemers to the BLM religion, and we’ll be left with no one who thinks for him/herself – or is willing to express thoughts that go against the prevailing memes. Of course, … Continue reading →
From commenter “Snow on Pine”: …[The left adheres to] the idea that, as our knowledge and capabilities have grown, our human nature has also changed–evolved–and that over the last 250 or so years our basic human nature has undergone some … Continue reading →
Hey, if Arafat could get a Nobel Peace Prize, and Obama could get one for merely existing, and Walter Duranty can get a Pulitzer for dastardly lies, why not give it to the NY Times for its bogus anti-American “history” … Continue reading →
As a non-scientist non-doctor non-epidemiologist blogger, my present thoughts on COVID-19 are as follows: it will most likely end up taking a worldwide toll something like the 1957 flu, adjusted for increased population of course. Perhaps even more like the … Continue reading →