An interesting interview with Virginia Postrel.
Category Archives: Education
Injustice
Yes, it’s what’s driving all these populist rebellions. And want to know how to make things worse? Continue to insult peoples’ character and intelligence by calling them stupid, Xist, Yist and Zist, instead of addressing their actual concerns.
Peter Jackson’s Restored WW I Footage
…provides a contrast with today:
In the span of 100 years, Britain has gone from producing men who were so eager to fight and die for their country that 16-year-olds lied about their age to enlist when the minimum age was 19, to teaching primary school boys that they can have periods just like girls and offering feminine hygiene products in boys’ bathrooms. This phenomenon isn’t unique to the U.K. U.S. colleges, like the University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, and Brown University offer menstrual products in their men’s rooms, in the name of “menstrual equity” and as a sop to a miniscule “transgender” population.
We’re doomed.
Trump’s Spelling Ability
Seth Tillman has some words for John McWhorter.
While Trump is not my cup of tea, and I don’t know if he’s actually ever even read a book, let alone written one, policy is more important than writing skill. BTW, I came up with another feature of both Trump and Obama that their supporters don’t recognize: They both love dictatorial thugs, just different ones. And here’s another, because I don’t think that Obama writes much, either (and I’m quite certain that the first book was ghost written, probably by Ayers).
Conservative Professors
Dunn described to Campus Reform how difficult it was to find conservative professors to include in their study.
“To actually find conservatives in several disciplines we had to use what’s called a snowball sample,” he said. “That method is used with difficult-to-locate populations like the homeless. I think it is both telling and ironic that we had to use it with conservatives. With a snowball sample, you find someone in the population you’re looking for and ask them where you could find more people like them.”
It’s samizdat.
The Real Food Problem
I’ve been saying this for years. The problem isn’t coming up with enough calories; it’s about feeding people a healthy diet. But the calorie-counting insanity is going to cause poor health all over, not just in the West.
Seinfeld
Ashe Schow writes that now it’s become the latest thing to be problematic.
The American Mediocracy
…is exhausted. As I’ve often noted, both Trump and Brexit were revolts against an unimpressive “elite” who thought themselves our moral and intellectual superiors, with no basis.
But like the Bourbons, the continue to know nothing, and forget nothing.
Cultural Literacy
We baby boomers got it from watching cartoons.
Yup. But it makes you wonder about the current generations, particularly when a lot of the Loony Tunes are being censored.
Trump, Conservatives, And “Neocons”
Some intellectual history from Jonah Goldberg, on the demise of The Weekly Standard.