[NOTE: This is a repeat of a previous post. Unfortunately, it seems as though it’s always a timely subject, and right now even more timely. So I thought it could use another go-round, very slightly edited.] Commenter “Ymarsakar” once made … Continue reading →
I’m not going to go through this article by Conrad Black point by point, except to say that I disagree with a great deal of it and agree with quite a bit of it. This is the paragraph on which … Continue reading →
Roosevelt’s Four Freedoms are famous mainly because of the Norman Rockwell art that illustrated the concepts. I wrote about that art in this post from fifteen years ago (my, my, how time flies). But today I’m writing about the ideas … Continue reading →
[NOTE: I wrote the first part of the following post in 2013. Since then, the problem and the hubris it describes have increased exponentially. So I thought it might be a good time to re-post it and add some new … Continue reading →
It is sad to see how susceptible people are to Critical Race Training propaganda – although I suppose it’s not all that surprising. CRT is more than propaganda, of course. It functions more like a cult that is programmed through … Continue reading →
When I first learned about Sullivan back in law school aeons ago, I remember being disturbed by the case. It’s not that I had a better solution. But it was easy to see the problem: how best to balance the … Continue reading →
Wow: In a stunningly rare discovery, dozens of 2,000-year-old biblical scroll fragments have been excavated from Judean Desert caves during a daring rescue operation. Most of the newly discovered scroll fragments — the first such finds in 60 years — … Continue reading →
We’ve had a running discussion here on whether the lockdown was the worst decision ever in America. I think it was up there, but I can think of worse. One example I’ve given of a decision I believe is worse … Continue reading →
Apparently there is a group of pro-life evangelicals who supported Biden because he – or some spokespeople for him – indicated there would be wiggle room on abortion and the Hyde Amendment if Biden were to be elected. Now they … Continue reading →
Here’s the situation in Illinois regarding the education of teachers across the entire state: …[I]n December, the Illinois State Board of Education, or ISBE, passed a new rule that would require culturally responsive teaching and leading standards to be incorporated … Continue reading →
Commenter “huxley” asks this question: I’m trying to understand how academia slid further and further to the left… I’m interested in Prof. Everybody, the academicians who watched and are still watching as their world was gradually taken over by the … Continue reading →
Several people have recommended that I read this extraordinarily powerful article by Natan Sharansky on the mental doubling that a person had to do in order to survive in the Soviet Union in which his father lived for most of … Continue reading →