Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
I had the privilege of hearing Charlie Kirk speak today. Oh. My. God. Charlie is a human dynamo: incredible intelligence and moral decency wrapped up in pure energy and passion, presented through the medium of a riveting presence. Some of you may already have gotten a taste of what Charlie offers
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The miserable sexism of Hillary’s supporters. I’ve agreed with myself to disagree with Jonah Goldberg about Donald Trump, while still greatly respecting and deeply appreciating Goldberg’s take on just about everything else. In the wake of Hillary’s 9/11 collapse, followed by her dehydration, followed by the media castigating as sexist
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I’m going to divide this post into “Hillary stuff” and everything else. Let’s go to town and have fun. Hillary stuff: Ah, Hillary’s “basket of deplorables.” It’s the gift that will keep giving and giving and giving. Scott Adams believes that the same people who feel guilty knocking her off
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The older of my two dogs is very high-strung and she got so frightened by the wind that carried the fog in tonight that I’ve had to sequester her and me in my home office so that Mr. Bookworm, who needs to get up for work tomorrow, can sleep. She shows no
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My Little Bookworm has had only four classroom days since her freshman year began at an Obscenely Expensive Liberal Arts College (“OELAC”) in the midwest. Today, on Facebook, she posted her first video supporting Black Lives Matter. I’m actually impressed at the speed with which OELAC’s indoctrination works. The video,
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Today’s entrant is Williams College, which U.S. News and World Report ranked as the best liberal arts college in 2016. It is true that, if you pick your way through the history courses, you can find a handful substantive history classes there. The vast majority of classes, however, are entirely
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Today’s entrant in my ongoing series examining the courses offered at America’s pricey liberal arts colleges, I offer an entry from Scripps College. For those unfamiliar with Scripps, founded in 1926, is a women’s college that is part of the Claremont Colleges, a liberal arts consortium of colleges. The other
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In my last several posts, I’ve been blogging about the horrors of America’s liberal arts colleges. Thankfully, Dennis Prager offers a couple of antidotes, both practical and idealistic. The first Prager video features Matthew Woessner, a political science professor at Penn State Harrisburg, who offers some tips to those conservative
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They say that to a hammer everything is a nail. After a full-bore orientation at an obscenely expensive liberal arts college (“OELAC”) in the Midwest, I can say with some confidence that to OELAC’s administrators every incoming freshman is a bundle of pathologies. Really. During one talk, we were assured that
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After assaulting you for three days with the “American Studies” offerings from obscenely expensive liberal arts colleges, I thought I’d give you a palate cleanser. Here is the choice of required classes that a Hillsdale student must take in order to major in American History. (Yes, Hillsdale actually offers “American
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Today was move-in day for my Little Bookworm, who is starting at an obscenely expensive liberal arts college (“OELAC”) in the Midwest. The day went well until the academic machinery started in motion. There are some nice things to say about OELAC — the campus is meticulously maintained and beautifully
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Yesterday we visited the course catalog for Macalester, in the upper Midwest (St. Paul, Minnesota, to be precise). Today, we head West to Oberlin, in Ohio, yet another college that doesn’t offer either American History or American Studies classes. Instead, for those interested in studying their own country, Oberlin offers “Comparative
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Today’s offering from the History or English departments of a modern American college comes from Macalester, one of those pricey, private liberal arts colleges dotting the Midwest. As is true for all these schools, it’s jettisoned American History in favor of “American Studies.” This new focus means that the college
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With a child heading off to college, I’ve decided to start a new feature at my blog. As the spirit moves me, I’m going to quote, verbatim, from college catalogs. I’m not going to go the cheap and easy route of quoting from the Women’s Studies or Queer Studies departments.
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On my real-me Facebook page, I posted a story about another miscarriage of justice against a male university student, this time at USC. My comment was that those of my friends who have sons who are or will be attending university will want to be aware of what’s going on
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