…had actually already happened when I was there, around 2008. The docents were already droning on and on about slaves and Sally Hemmings, almost as though those were the main points of Jefferson’s life. This NY Post article describes what’s … Continue reading →
This sort of educational project is being exposed more and more now, but for a long time such things have been happening outside of people’s awareness. And that was part of the left’s plan. It’s hard to say how many … Continue reading →
Where does Kyle Rittenhouse go to get his reputation back [see *NOTE below]? There’s a group of Arizona State students who have discovered that Kyle Rittenhouse was enrolled in some online ASU courses, and are incensed by this terribly distressing … Continue reading →
…well, think again: Let’s hear from “scholar of education history and policy” Jack Schneider and education podcaster Jennifer Berkshire, who you may remember from her passionate argument against “parents’ rights”. This is good stuff, people: “Yet what’s actually radical here … Continue reading →
[Hat tip: commenter “AesopFan”] Harry V. Jaffa, a professor of political philosophy at Claremont College, gave a farewell address to the school in 1989 that appears here in its entirety. The speech has some commonalities with the work of Allan … 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 →
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 →
[NOTE: The first part of this post is a repost of something I originally published on 11/11/2019, a little over a year ago. I think it’s interesting to look back at it in the light of what’s happened since. I’ve … Continue reading →
Professor William Jacobson of Legal Insurrection reports on the latest in the campaign against him: Earlier this week, the Black Law Students Association circulated an email statement to the Cornell Law School community repeating many of the false and misleading … Continue reading →
Here’s the way the leftist mantras go: All white people are responsible for the sins of every white person throughout time. Unlike whites, not only are all non-white people not collectively responsible for the sins of other non-white people, but … Continue reading →
From commenter “Snow on Pine”: …[The left adheres to] the idea that, as our knowledge and capabilities have grown, our human nature has also changed–evolved–and that over the last 250 or so years our basic human nature has undergone some … Continue reading →