[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 →
Zero tolerance for thoughtcrime in the young: #ARRESTED| We were alerted to a series of racist messages sent to a footballer today and after looking into them and conducting checks, we have arrested a boy. The 12-year-old from #Solihull has … Continue reading →
They’re not just funny, although they’re that. They also have a succinct way of stating common sense, a quality which is all too rare these days:
Continue reading →At a City Council meeting in Seattle recently: The types of 911 calls that Seattle police respond to most are reported disturbances, suspicious circumstances, parking issues, public assistance needs and car crashes, accounting for 41% of all calls. Those are … Continue reading →
The following is a great video – until the end, when he says he plans to vote for Biden (34:35): How can Hughes say he will vote for Biden after spending about a half hour arguing against the premises of … 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 →
A double bind is a social science term for “heads I win, tails you lose.” It goes like this: A double bind is a dilemma in communication in which an individual (or group) receives two or more conflicting messages, with … Continue reading →
If someone in your life is pressuring you to be schooled in the white privilege anti-racism (“it’s not enough to not be racist, you must be anti-racist”) cult, you might want to take a look at these. Short and to … Continue reading →
I covered some of the events that took place at Evergreen College in 2017, a situation that catapulted Bret Weinstein into minor celebrity for the brave stand he took there. But although I thought I knew a lot about it, … Continue reading →
Indeed. Actually – beware of all theories that contain the word “critical.” I’ve also been thinking lately that we’ve come a long way since 2008 in Obama’s program to fundamentally transform America, haven’t we? He kept it purposely vague, but … Continue reading →
Please read this thread. I doubt it would work everywhere, but it’s well worth contemplating. And it may only be possible for people with tenure, or those who have the ability to find work elsewhere. Whether it would work in … Continue reading →
People are susceptible to hucksters. And so we have a newly-popularized cult of racism masquerading as anti-racism, and one of its most bizarre examples is a book called White Fragility. Not only does it lump white people together in a … Continue reading →