Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
National Review’s Alex Torres has unearthed a really disgusting example of academic-think over at UCSB. That’s where Mireille Miller-Young, who gets paid to teach students about porn and sex work, with a little bit of “black culture” on the side, not only aggressively stole a sign from a pro-Life display
Continue readingI grew up entirely surrounded by Asians. I think I had one friend who was Jewish. The rest were Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, and Filipino. They all came from homes that had exactly the same values: marriage, education, hard work, and self-reliance were the family watch words. Those are still
Continue readingA small cadre of Dartmouth students threatened violence if the school didn’t invest a great deal more money in “diversity” (skin color and gender diversity, of course, rather than intellectual diversity). Dartmouth caved, diverting funds from actual academics to appease the radicals. The theory on the right is that Dartmouth’s
Continue readingHere’s a story that’s familiar to many of my older readers, but one that may be surprising to my younger ones. Once upon a time, you’d sign up for the SAT a few weeks before you were to take it. Then, the night before the SAT, you’d go to bed
Continue readingYesterday I briefly wrote about Emmett Rensin, a University of Chicago grad who is deeply, abjectly in love with socialism. Yesterday was also the day that Bruce Bawer looked closely at Sandra Y. L. Korn, a Harvard student who makes Rensin look like a stodgy banker: Who is Sandra Y.L.
Continue readingThe etymology of the word “liberal” isn’t complicated. It’s from the Latin līberālis, meaning “of freedom,” which in turn derives from līber, meaning “free.” The problem with “liberalism” as a political doctrine comes about when people try to define the control from which they wish to be free. As a
Continue readingFacebook’s decision to add something like 50 new gender identification categories to its “about me” section caused a small flurry of interest in the news and in social media. Progressives embraced the change because it’s a step towards ending the stultifying limitations of male and female. Conservatives were upset by
Continue readingSometimes things are so perfectly timed, you know that they were meant to be. Such is the case with three things that crossed my radar yesterday when I finally got a chance to spend a few hours at my computer. The first is a wonderful image from Michal: The second
Continue readingThe only information I wish I had is whether these students accurately represent all the students at NYU. That is, did Turning Point USA have to talk to 5, 50, or 500 students to get these abysmally ignorant responses. I suspect 5 is the correct answer, but it’s appropriate to
Continue readingWe had an interesting conversation at our dinner table last night. My son said that, now that he’s at high school, he enjoys his science class most. He finds the other classes boring and, to his mind, pointless. Having watched a documentary recording what goes on in UC Berkeley’s liberal
Continue readingAll of us have bemoaned the fact that the Nanny school is denying children the opportunity to learn skills that are essential to getting through life. The teachers should supervise to make sure that things don’t get too much out of control, but otherwise, they need to leave the kids
Continue reading“In loco parentis” is a Latin term that translates to “in the place of a parent.” To the extent it still shows up anywhere today, it shows up in courts when an institution appears on behalf of a child, instead of the parent appearing on behalf of the child. The
Continue readingIt’s already old news now that Eric Holder has announced that schools must stop disciplining minority students because he feels they are disproportionately the subject of school discipline. Many who read his edict thought, first, that a ukase against discipline based upon skin color, rather than conduct, was just about
Continue readingThe Cato Institute is putting together a series of videos to identify government agencies that are not merely wasteful, but are also destructive to our country’s well-being. This video, attacking the horribly misnamed Department of Education, is one of the five videos Cato has already created: Of course, the above
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