More evidence that they were useless.
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Public ignorance about the virus is nothing short of stunning.
Category Archives: Education
Everything Is Problematic
A useful Twitter thread on Critical Theory and wokeness.
We need to understand it if we’re going to fight it.
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Heather MacDonald: Conformity to a lie in academia.
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The challenge of Marxism. A long, but worthwhile read.
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The death spasms of Marxism are driving its adherents crazier by the day.
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Race Politics
How it burns out.
If I were in charge, I would remove the word “race” from the entire federal code.
College As A Commodity
We are looking at the end stages. The scam can’t end soon enough.
People are noting in the restaurant post that (ignoring the Democrats’ ongoing war against small businesses), the institutions hit hardest by the pandemic are dominated by the left. There is no small irony in that.
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Steven Hayward: “Where’s the bad news here?”
Millenarian Mobs
Some history to put current events in context.
When Poland Saved Europe
This history is not taught much in American schools.
Conformism
Some interesting thoughts. I’m a somewhat aggressive independent thinker. Elon is way out on that spectrum.
Cuomo
Baby, please come back.
This virus has been like a wildfire, sweeping through education, academia, and blue cities. It took technological and social trends that were already happening, and rapidly accelerated them, and now they’re smoldering ashes. I don’t think any of them will ever be the same again. And that’s not a bad thing.
The Virus
…has been oversold.
At some point, the people will simply rebel.
And a depressing post from Virginia Postrel about “the new normal.”
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In which the former editor of Reason magazine is called a “lefty Marxist.”
Pushback Against THe Democrats’ Overreach
Has it begun?