Meritocracy has been dying a slow and painful death for many many decades. It used to be a basic American value. I don’t know when that began to change, but the first thing I noticed along those lines was many … Continue reading →
Some suggestions for responding to White Fragility trainers, particularly if your exposure to the program happens in the workplace. The book White Fragility has also become very popular among book groups. In addition, it increasingly serves as fuel to cause … Continue reading →
Till last night I hadn’t realized that a transcript of the police interactions with George Floyd had already been released over a week ago. I would have thought it would have created a far bigger stir than it did, and … Continue reading →
…and even prior to that, I don’t think I had watched them for several decades. I watch very little network TV and not much TV at all. I suppose somebody does, though. And now this: CBS has announced a target … Continue reading →
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:
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