At The American Conservative, Ryan Terry, a principal and managing partner with R + T Studio based in Texas, tells readers that if America is to renew its culture, small towns and neighborhoods must take the lead. He writes: Today, America has almost entirely forgotten itself—shedding like a snake its local affections and destroying its best-loved […]
Farm Towns Dying
In a column on The American Conservative’s website, photojournalist Vincent David Johnson explores the decline of the American farm town. His photos show the results of an urbanization trend in America that has sapped rural farm towns of their population and economic vigor. Debbie and I have witnessed much of the same on our many […]
When Degrees and Credentials Replace Wisdom and Knowledge
What does globalization mean? What we call globalization, writes Victor Davis Hanson, is what our forefathers called monopolies. “Jeans, t-shirts, and cool did not mean that the lifestyles and mindsets of a Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos were any different from their kindred spirits of the past—J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, or Jay Gould.” […]
The Upside Down Thinking of Affirmative Action
In NYC, Mayor Bill de Blasio looked to eliminate the entrance exam for the city’s eight elite public high schools. Why? “…to ensure that more black and Hispanic students were admitted.” Asian families strongly objected and blocked the move, Jason L. Riley reports in the WSJ. In the upside-down thinking of affirmative-action advocates, academically rigorous […]
“The Real Crisis of Black America”
Writing at The American Conservative, Pat Buchanan wonders why Roseanne Barr’s recent tweet, though “Offensive, juvenile, [and] crude,” has been given so much attention, while what he calls “the real crisis of black America,” goes relatively unnoticed. Pat writes (abridged): For Roseanne Barr, star of ABC’s hit show “Roseanne,” there would be no appeal. When […]
50 Years Ago–the Start of Political Polarization
Happy 50th Anniversary 1968 “The modern era of American politics—defined by polarization and nonstop intensity—began with the cataclysmic events of 1968,” writes Daniel Henninger in the WSJ. “Nineteen sixty-eight was one of the greatest anni horribiles ever to happen inside the U.S., producing war, assassinations and riots.” January 23, The USS Pueblo and its 82 survivors […]
Congratulations Tucker Carlson
UK Spectator columnist Cockburn explains the dominance of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson over his prime time CNN rival Anderson Cooper. Even Carlson’s Midnight reruns are getting better ratings than Cooper’s show. Cockburn writes: Donald Trump is certainly right about one thing: CNN is failing. Its primetime lineup gets walloped by Fox News and MSNBC on a nightly basis. Several […]
RIP Bernard Lewis–the Scholar Who Refused to Deal in Falsehoods
One of the great scholars of our time died this past weekend at age 101. Bernard Lewis, writes Jay Nordlinger at National Review, was an historian of the Middle East as well as an elegant writer. In a long teaching career, he had hundreds or thousands of students, some of whom called him “the Imam” […]
Bernie Sanders–the Antichrist?
At 82 years, Ken Langone is an investor and philanthropist. He also is one of the founders of Home Depot. His autobiography, “I Love Capitalism,” may be hokey and overly cheery, suggests Peggy Noonan in the WSJ, but it “conveys the excitement of business–of starting an enterprise that creates a job that creates a family, […]
The Mormons Cut Ties with the Boy Scouts
With an ever increasing focus on political correctness as opposed to scouting, the Boy Scouts of America organization has pushed away one of its strongest allies, the Mormon church. Brady McCombs of the Associated Press reports: For more than a century, the Boy Scouts of America and the Mormon church formed an ideal pair as […]
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