UPDATE 10.24.23: At OCPA, Ray Carter reports on views that “diversity, equity, and inclusion” education runs counter to the protection in the 14th Amendment. He writes: In recent years colleges across the nation, including in Oklahoma, have incorporated “diversity, equity, and inclusion” programming throughout the college experience. But at a legislative study this week, experts […]
Harvard – the Bud Light of the Academic World
Will a Harvard Resume Merit a Black Mark? On Tuesday, the WSJ published this disturbing report from a Harvard doctoral student in Jewish history, J.J. Kimche: The university’s “Palestine Solidarity Groups,” a collection of some 30 student groups, issued a statement exculpating the terrorists for their acts of murder, rape, kidnapping and mayhem. “We, the undersigned student […]
A Bulletproof Story Goes Amok
Other than That, Mrs. Lincoln, How Was the Play? Maybe no one ever read Rolling Stone magazine for truth and facts. Closer to the truth might be, who reads it at all anymore? The old canard is that Jann Wenner, a “media visionary,” started Rolling Stone at his kitchen table in 1967. It is now valued at […]
So Much for Mozart
At LewRockwell.com, Taki Theodoracopulos laments the loss of the Mostly Mozart Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center, and erosion of Western civilization. He writes: This is the best news since the Bush-Blair duo saved us from the nuclear holocaust Saddam was about to unleash upon us. Half a million—perhaps even one million—dead Iraqis later, we […]
Cultural Appropriation vs Influence, Inspiration, Homage
A Little Music Jay Nordlinger, in an article in New Criterion, quotes William Fedkenheuer. Fedkenheuer is a classical violinist, fiddler, teacher, and consultant for individuals, groups, and organizations. Referred to as a “badass,” he uses his unique style to empower musicians. Inspired to Impact Music Education Mr. Nordlinger quotes Mr. Fedkenheuer at length, before expanding on […]
Back to School, with Apologies
Academic and Medical Malpractice Teaching middle-schoolers and deciding which books to allow in classrooms are low on Jason Riley’s serious goals list. Far more consequential than a Black history curriculum, he writes in the WSJ, is the inability of middle schoolers to read or do math at grade level. In Florida, where GOP governor and […]
Is Doing Good While Doing Evil Possible?
Nigel Biggar, emeritus professor of theology at Oxford, has been pilloried for his book, “Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning,” It is not, writes Tunku Varadarajan in the WSJ, the work of imperial nostalgia. From Mr. Varadarajan’s WSJ review: Biggar appears to be “blessed with skin that is as thick as his mind is clear.” Not for […]
Is the American Economy Set to Split along Political Lines?
Americans are tired of buying products from companies that support political agendas to which they do not subscribe. To fill the breach left by left-wing mega-corporations, a new economy has formed, dubbed the “patriot economy.” In The Spectator, Amber Athey examines if the “patriot economy’s” time has come. She writes: It’s Saturday. You just rolled […]
Obergefell, Not a Victory for a Live-and-Let-Live America
Justice Alito’s Warning In Massachusetts, a Catholic couple has been deemed unfit for a foster-care license because the couple’s beliefs are “insufficiently progressive.” The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families’s decision to deny Michael and Kitty Burke’s foster-care application comes less than a decade after the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, which held that […]
Blowin’ in the Wind
Across the U.S. and in Europe, at least ten offshore projects in recent weeks have been delayed or “hit the doldrums.” The reported malaise isn’t cheap, with a $33 billion price tag, reports the WSJ. Outside of nuclear power, observes the WSJ’s James Freeman in “Best of the Web,” “the zero-emission energy movement isn’t exactly […]
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