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US higher education is no meritocracy, and that doesn’t seem to be changing

The New Neo Posted on May 9, 2025 by neoMay 9, 2025

That’s the premise of this article: For most of its history, America’s higher-education system, for all its flaws, operated around a hard but fair rule: Raw intellectual firepower mattered. Talent mattered. The ability to retain information and apply it correctly … Continue reading →

Posted in Education, History | Tagged Allan Bloom | 36 Replies

How the left is further taking over public schools in Minnesota

The New Neo Posted on April 22, 2022 by neoApril 22, 2022

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 →

Posted in Education, History, Race and racism | Tagged Allan Bloom | 25 Replies

We are so much smarter and better now than past generations, right? RIGHT?

The New Neo Posted on March 29, 2021 by neoMarch 29, 2021

[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 →

Posted in Education, History | Tagged Allan Bloom | 57 Replies

“Culturally responsive” Illinois teacher training

The New Neo Posted on February 27, 2021 by neoFebruary 27, 2021

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 →

Posted in Education, History, Race and racism | Tagged Allan Bloom | 26 Replies

They’re still trying to cancel William Jacobson at Cornell

The New Neo Posted on June 18, 2020 by neoJune 18, 2020

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 →

Posted in Academia, History, Liberty | Tagged Allan Bloom | 24 Replies

Education and the New White Man’s Burden of the Left

The New Neo Posted on June 17, 2020 by neoJune 17, 2020

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 →

Posted in History, Race and racism | Tagged Allan Bloom | 24 Replies

Progressives and progress

The New Neo Posted on May 18, 2020 by neoMay 18, 2020

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 →

Posted in Education, Getting philosophical: life, love, the universe, History | Tagged Allan Bloom | 32 Replies

Superbowl 2020: good clean fun for the whole family

The New Neo Posted on February 3, 2020 by neoFebruary 3, 2020

I cared even less about this year’s Superbowl than I usually do – and since I usually don’t care, that means I didn’t bother to turn on the TV. But I know many people do care, so here’s a thread … Continue reading →

Posted in Baseball and sports, Men and women; marriage and divorce and sex, Music, Pop culture | Tagged Allan Bloom | 68 Replies

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