I wish everyone in America would read it, but alas, that will not happen. Highly recommended. As you read the interview, now and then you may notice the influence of Thomas Sowell, if you’re familiar with his work on what … Continue reading →
The Red Guard rides again: Nearly 2,000 people called for the termination of a New York City professor after she reportedly fell asleep during an anti-racist meeting held on Zoom. Patricia Simon, a theater arts associate professor at Marymount Manhattan … Continue reading →
This article by John McWhorter is highly recommended. You might want to send it to anyone who’s on your case to “do the work” outlined in the book.
Continue reading →Leftists love to give themselves titles that are the opposite of their essence. Orwell knew this, and it was a prominent part of his masterpiece Nineteen Eighty-Four. We see it today in the names of several organizations. For example, “Antifa” … Continue reading →
In Detroit, a 20-year-old black man was killed by police. His name was Hakim Littleton. Black Lives Matter, the organization dedicated to publicizing and protesting all deaths of black people at the hands of police (particularly white police), sprung into … Continue reading →
[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 →