[NOTE: I thought this post from 2013 could bear repeating, with some edits and additions to bring it up to date.] I’ve written before about Allan Bloom’s masterful The Closing of the American Mind, published in 1987, here and here. … Continue reading →
Hanson writes of how the university has become an expensive false-front of learning (that’s the “Potemkin” part) that is really devoted to fostering PC thought and behavior and monitoring itself and its denizens for any violations thereof. Well worth reading. … Continue reading →
In this thread from Saturday, quite a few people rhapsodized on how much they like audio books, and they recommended them to me. I’ve written before about my problems with auditory learning (see this and this), but now I’d like … Continue reading →
Remember the Miller Analogies Test? It was one of those “this is to this, as this is to which of these?” tests that supposedly tapped into a person’s logical reasoning ability as well as the person’s knowledge base. Analogies can’t … Continue reading →
Pence casts the tie-breaking vote: Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer voiced his displeasure with the vote moments after she was confirmed, tweeting, “Today @VP Mike Pence did something no one else has ever done: cast the tie breaking vote on … Continue reading →
My ex-husband has been going through his papers, and yesterday he found something I thought had been long lost—a poem I had written as a 14-year-old sophomore in high school. How it came to be in his stuff I don’t … Continue reading →
I recently came across an interesting book entitled Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know–And Doesn’t, written by religion professor Stephen Prothero. The subject matter is the lack of education in the US about religious history worldwide, and what … Continue reading →
It’s not as though the Trump University fraud trial was unknown till recently. It had just gotten lost in the shuffle of so many other things. I went back to see what I had previously written about it, and I … Continue reading →
…and were too weary to ask. Well, maybe not everything. But plenty. Please take a look. Excerpts (this was written in 2014): The supreme court of New York ruled earlier that Trump University, now renamed Trump Entrepreneur Initiative, LLC, is … Continue reading →
How can voters make informed decisions without knowing how our government works? The answer is—they can’t. How ignorant is the American public? This ignorant: An October Farleigh Dickinson survey found that only 34% of Americans can name the three branches … Continue reading →
David French suggests that rejecting federal funding is the remedy if states wish to reclaim their right to be free of executive actions such as the Obama administration’s directive on school bathrooms [emphasis mine]: Without an act of Congress, without … Continue reading →
And so he—that is, his Departments of Justice and Education—have issued this letter of “guidance.” I sometimes wonder whether Obama is trying to sabotage Hillary Clinton’s chances of getting elected. Because I think that this “decree” is the sort of … Continue reading →