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- Culture, Science, Uncategorized
- May 15, 2025
As if there were not enough real aggression in the world, the hothouse climate of American universities has bred infestations of “microaggression”. This noxious weed is causing countless students and staff to break out in a rash of indignation and hurt feelings, and is spreading rapidly through society. The remedy seems to be to bring
READ MOREIf you’ve been following the news this last week, you’ve likely seen how school campuses are becoming dominated by contention over issues such as equality, racism, and other diversity-minded issues. But what happens when these issues come to dominate the curriculum, too? That’s the question explored in the amusing – and increasingly accurate – clip below:
READ MOREThis is the way the world endsNot with a bang but a whimper. ? T.S. Eliot One strange trait of the die hard NeverTrump Republicans and progressives is their charge that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to democracy. Trump, as is his wont, says a lot of outrageous and weird things.
READ MOREDuring my senior year in college, my theatre class read Spinning Into Butter by Rebecca Gilman. The plot portrays the interactions between students and the Dean of a privileged liberal arts school in Vermont. Interactions with two students in particular take center stage, the one an African American who is thought to be the victim
READ MOREFor 19 years, I was a master of time. Down to the minute, I controlled time for others and used it to meet my and others’ ends, irrespective of the desires of those in front of me. In short, I was a public-school teacher, and controlling time was my talent. Although I and other adults
READ MORENPR reports that the New York Public Library has released 180,000 public domain items as high resolution downloads available for free. This means that the public now has unprecedented access to historical images in high quality: “The documents include literary manuscripts, Farm Security Administration photographs, sheet music, papers from Founding Fathers, WPA-era art by African-American
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