Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Without exception, all of the structural flaws VDH identifies in America’s higher education were already problems when I was at Berkeley, and they explain why I hated my experience at Berkeley so much. The only difference is that, back in the day, when I attended lectures given by bored tenured
Continue readingThe problem with making it in academia is that you don’t make it unless you play their game. Sadie wrote to me that she has a friend who has to play that game and wondered if we could help, but help in a judo-esque way. That is, what Sadie would
Continue readingIn September 2011, I wrote a post about the way teachers constantly present themselves as the hardest working, most underpaid people in America. I have a great deal of respect for teachers and, to the extent I deliver my kids to their care, I want them to be decent, knowledgeable,
Continue readingThe principal at the kids’ public high school routinely sends out emails notifying parents about upcoming events, exposures to diseases such as whooping cough, sports victories, etc. Today’s email, in addition to scheduling and sports information, contained this snippet: Lastly, Kaiser Permanente has asked our help in spreading the word
Continue readingSometimes my posts just re-write themselves. This is me writing in May 2009: Twenty years ago, a Stanford professor let me in on a little secret: In a Lake Woebegone-ish way, all the students at Stanford are above average. Truly. The faculty was not allowed to fail anyone, so much
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This post needs to begin with a very important observation: Since the end of WWII, and with increasing speed and force since the 1960s, Leftists parents and educators have encouraged young people to go into America’s institutions (most notably education and entertainment) to change those institutions — and change them
Continue readingOne of my pet peeves is bullying. I’m not talking about bullying amongst students, although I certainly don’t like that. I’m talking about the bullying from school districts and Progressive parents who work overtime to ensure that children are brainwashed into fearing self-defense so much that they would rather be
Continue readingArne Duncan defended common core by verbally assaulting “white suburban moms.” He’s now issued the standard Obama-era apology, which is to say that he’s not sorry for what he said, he’s just sorry that he got caught saying it: “I used some clumsy phrasing that I regret.” I was
Continue readingThe People’s Republic of Berkeley or, as it’s more commonly known, the University of California, Berkeley, has stayed true to its core Orwellian Leftism by banning language. Today’s targeted “bad thinking” is the phrase “illegal immigrant.” According to the censors occupying Berkeley’s student government, that phrase is “racially charged,” “dehumanizes”
Continue readingTo those few of you reading this who are conservatives who managed to survive Harvard Law School, my apologies. But I have to say, having read this, it’s obvious that Texas’s Wendy Davis is a typical Harvard Law School grad: thin-skinned, unprincipled, arrogant, anti-constitutional, and ill-informed. Oh, and judging by
Continue readingYesterday, I wrote about the peculiar socialist inversion that sees doctors — who study for years, work insane hours, and hold our lives in their hands — routinely denigrated, while teachers — who study for a short time, work the world’s shortest hours, and don’t hold anybody’s lives in their
Continue readingI have a couple of high school friends on Facebook who grew up to become teachers. They are relentless about posting daily materials highlighting the American teacher’s martyrdom. If you relied on these posters alone, you’d think that being a teacher is the hardest job, with the lowest salary, in
Continue readingBack in the early 1990s, it was funny when American whites were told “White Men Can’t Jump.” We’re also told on a regular basis that we can’t dance and that we’ve got no rhythm. I always assumed all of these were gentle cultural jokes. It turns out that, even if
Continue readingA lot of sites have been linking to a blog post from Daniel Kahan, a law professor at Yale because it contains a very surprising confession. To appreciate both what Kahan said (which was good) and what he refused to do (which was very, very bad), you need to know
Continue readingGo here to find out what incredibly peculiar thing happened at the University of Colorado. Meanwhile, I’m going to be looking out my window, because I expect to see a pig fly by any minute now.
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