I wonder if he’s regretting that he wrote that interminable condescending thumbsucker? First he was lampooned by Iowahawk, and now he’s been (gently) eviscerated by Lileks.
Category Archives: Education
The Knowledge Problem
Obama claims to have read Hayek, but I don’t believe it. Or if he did, he probably wasn’t capable of understanding it.
The Enemies Of The Humanities
This Will Surprise Michigan Residents
Did you know that Jennifer Granholm is “an expert on economic recovery“? I guess those who can’t do, teach.
The Occupiers Are The One Percent
Now let us get a few things straight about who these loony goons are. For the most part they are spoiled rotten brats who took out huge loans to pay for four years of self-indulgence at some over-rated liberal arts college. Somehow, they were able to spend a few months in the fall camping out and protesting against the working class while not working themselves.
They are in that upper 1% who do not have to work.
And they are prodigious increasers of entropy.
Know Nothings
In which the Occumorons in San Diego hold a seminar extolling the virtues of communism. As noted, this is because we allowed the left to take over the academy in the sixties.
Making The Klan Boring
Jonah Goldberg on more whitewashing of “progressive” history:
I’ve long argued that there’s an infuriating tendency among mainstream liberal historians to take two approaches to evils in American history. Sins are always either the result of conservatives doing conservative things or they’re the product of America’s fundamentally bigoted nature. It’s just never, ever, the case that liberalism or progressivism has something to apologize for. Liberalism is never wrong, because essential to the concept of liberalism is the idea that it must always be right. The fact that racism and other evils were commonplace, even central, to much of the progressive project is simply too jarring to contemplate and so we get either a whitewash or blame-shifting. And with Boyle, we get both.
And we’ll continue to as long as people continue to take these people seriously. Meanwhile, here’s the real story of the 20s Klan.
Whittaker Chambers
Want to fund a documentary about him? Long overdue, in my opinion. Too many leftists remain unfamiliar with their own odious intellectual (so to speak) history. It’s always nice to force them to confront it.
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Speaking of airbrushing history, the media has already started for Barney Frank.
Marketing Science To Girls
How not to do it.
The War Between The Useless And The Useful
I think we know who will win in the end, but it’s going to get ugly. The Occumorons are just the beginning. And Glenn Beck was right.
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This seems peripherally related: the Great Jobs Massacre.
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Three reasons that colleges are oversubscribed. It’s been a scam for decades and, like housing, a government subsidized bubble that’s about to pop.