Kyle Smith (a Yale graduate) writing on the elite college experience: A thing that occurs if you attend an elite college or university, as I did, is that most of the professors teaching you are more or less the same beleaguered time-servers who would be teaching you at any other school. I well remember the […]
Notes from Key West
Recently, Rabbi Yaakov Zucker of Chabad Jewish Center, along with a handful of congregants, in the small town of Key West has started going to target practice. “We pray on one hand, but we’re also armed on the other hand, not in a vigilante way … I hope I’ll never have to use it, but […]
Avoid Elite Colleges and Head for the Books
In writing about the college admission scandal, Peggy Noonan gives readers an antidote. Kids at Tennessee Tech University in Cookeville are local, she writes. The student body is a racial and ethnic mix, immigrants and children of immigrants. Ms. Noonan found them to be “gracious, welcoming, quick with smart questions on presidents and policy.” At […]
University Chutzpah? $1.5 Trillion in Taxpayer Funded Loans
The bribery cases within America’s elite colleges and universities may be the least fraudulent thing, Inez Stepman writes in the Federalist, in which she highlights that endowment-laden universities are the recipients of $1.5 trillion in tax-funded loans. Universities are big business, and their excess is all the more offensive for having being built in no […]
Joe Biden, a Democrat to Beat Trump?
Joe Biden, who to date has not announced plans to run for the third time as a presidential candidate, has as good a chance as any Democrat of beating Donald Trump, writes William McGurn in the WSJ. Mr. Biden was a loyal member of the Obama team. He claims a Democratic ethos forged in the […]
What America Is Up Against in 2020
Progressives in America have been given much help from unexpected sources. For example, George Will urged voters to oust Republicans, helping the Democratic Party take control of the House, explains American Greatness’ Julie Kelly. Will Not Alone in Helping Democrats George Will had fellow bandwagon commentators: Tom Nichols, losing presidential candidate Evan McMullin, and Will’s Post […]
Mama, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Self-Reliance, Grit, Courage … “The world needs more cowboys” was the University of Wyoming marketing slogan last summer, emphasizing that anyone with the above caliber of traits could be a cowboy. Remember several years ago how Evergreen State and the University of Missouri caved to identity politics demands? Not so the University of Wyoming, cheerily […]
JOBS: Record Creation, Higher Wages, Robust Expansion Plans
Global growth and trade friction may cast a shadow over the economic horizon, but a report from the National Federation of Independent Business, shows U.S. small businesses went on an historic hiring binge in February: “Job creation broke the 45-year record in February … The previous record was 0.51 reached in May 1998.” “Readers can […]
Victor Davis Hanson Ostracized by the Left and the Right
Victor Davis Hanson, a 5th generation landowner in Selma, California, grows raisins (grapes) in a region that bills itself as the “Raisin Capital of the World.” Professor Hanson is a Stanford University Hoover Institution fellow and a scholar of military history and ancient Greece. VDH also opines on social trends, especially related to agrarianism and […]
Democrats Hell Bent on Impeaching Trump
During the presidential 2016 election, Democrats were told to rest easy: Hillary R. Clinton was a shoe-in for the White House. Going one step further, President Barack Obama assured everyone that America’s election could not be rigged, writes Roger Kimball in Spectator. The Impossible Happened: Trump Won … the entire Democratic establishment, aided by their press corps […]
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