In yesterday’s thread on a poll indicating a steep decline in patriotism in the US, commenter “charles” wrote: That is one thing that makes polls like this so disheartening; if more and more people believe that love of one’s country … Continue reading →
While trying to read this rather dense piece of social science research, I came across this portion quite a ways into it: …[I]t should also be recognized that the SAPA Project relies on participants finding or seeking out the survey; … Continue reading →
DeSantis has been pretty good at dealing with the hostile MSM. Case in point: During a briefing on Florida’s supposed “book banning,” DeSantis didn’t just rhetorically defend his state’s measures to remove pornographic material from schools. He actually showed what … Continue reading →
Yesterday, commenter “Paul Nachman” kindly drew our attention to this talk by Thomas Sowell on multicultualism. It was given some time in the 1990s, and displays Sowell’s characteristic sharpness of observation and clarity of expression He grasped the problem long … Continue reading →
Let’s just forget about all that lockdown stuff Democrats pushed and pushed and pushed, that was so damaging to society and in particular to kids, writes Emily Oster. Like another Emily: From the article: These precautions were totally misguided. In … Continue reading →
Then again, that was his practice long before his current cognitive decline. It appears to be a feature of his personality and it continued because it only came back to bite him very temporarily. He’s a silly braggart and bag … Continue reading →
I grew up in an era in which we had to memorize scads of poetry, some of it of the patriotic verse variety. I’ve written about the experience here. An excerpt: I think it may be a lost pedagogical device, … Continue reading →
[Part I can be found here.] Some people regard Zinn’s work as so eye-opening it hits them almost like a conversion experience. Many of these people turn out to be teachers, exposed to Zinn at some point during their training. … Continue reading →
This post and a planned Part II are mostly based on a draft I wrote in March of 2013. That’s nearly ten years ago – how time does fly! I’ve mentioned before that I have a lot of old drafts … Continue reading →
It’s depressing but not the least surprising to learn that our students are abysmally ignorant of civics, so ignorant that few could pass a basic citizenship test. A political science professor at Suffolk Community College in New York administered one, … Continue reading →
He must have thought his “MAGA folks are facists” speech the other day in Philadelphia was so fabulous that he decided (or someone decided) he should repeat it to the entire nation. Just a little unifying pep talk to declare … Continue reading →
In a post I wrote earlier today about Germany’s power problems, there was a link with a photo of a low-water Rhine and the caption: “A ferry cruises past the partially dried riverbed of the Rhine river in Bingen, Germany … Continue reading →