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 →
This would be funny if it weren’t so ominous: House Democrats are pressing cable and streaming services over their decisions to host channels that the lawmakers accuse of spreading misinformation and conspiracy theories that lead to “real world harm.” Reps. … Continue reading →
I wonder how long YouTube will allow Frei to have a voice there.
Continue reading →These guys are good. Here are their recent discussions on the impeachment “trial” and the rule of law (the entire thing is a two-hour video, but I’ve cued up two rather short segments I think are especially fine): If you … Continue reading →
Commenter “Philip Sells” asks a good question: Does not Orwell’s concept of Newspeak presuppose something like Sapir-Whorf? And commenter “Frederick” responds this way: Yeah, it did, which lessened the book a bit for me…Reading it now is a little jarring… … 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 →
Now that Washington DC is an armed camp after the January 6 Reichstag fire, and the Senate is busy trying the previous president and pretending they have the authority to do so, what’s next? Let’s see. Let’s not forget that … Continue reading →
Victor David Hanson: The point of the 1960s, again we were taught, was to tear down the rules, the traditions and customs, the hierarchies of the old guys. The targets were supposedly the uptight, short-hair, square-tie, adult generation who grew … Continue reading →
Actually, the political purge of the military isn’t just beginning. Under Obama, there was a sea-change that involved the top brass, from what we might call “old school” to “new school.” There also was a general movement in the military … Continue reading →
Is the CDC so emboldened by the Democrats being in charge that it believes it can issue a nationwide mandate, just like that? Or was it the Biden administration that told it to go ahead? Of course, both can be … Continue reading →
All this Bidenesque healing and normalcy is just so soothing: According to Ken Cuccinelli, the former head of the Department of Homeland Security, Pelosi not only asked for those massive numbers of troops, but she also asked for the Guard … Continue reading →
Whatever the recent proposals of the Democrats might be – DC as a state, court-packing, national voting “reform” that would enable voting fraud in the entire country – the key to passing or not passing such bills in the current … Continue reading →