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Millennials in America Have a Troubling View of Communism and Socialism 0
- November 6, 2017
Last year the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation released their inaugural annual report on U.S. attitudes towards communism and socialism. The results were dispiriting. “We discovered a rampant amnesia about the crimes of communist regimes,” says Marion Smith, “and a growing inclination among younger Americans toward favorable views of communism and socialism.” Their latest survey
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Trump’s Rhetoric—the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly—Won’t Determine His Presidency 0
- November 3, 2017
‘Tis well said again; and it is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds. – King Henry in William Shakespeare’s King Henry VIII As someone who has spent virtually his whole life in the labor of words, spoken and written, prose and poetry and political commentary,
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The Missing Ingredients in Modern Education 0
- November 3, 2017
While working at a local Catholic High School I couldn’t help observing how the whole enterprise too often focussed on achievement rather than accomplishment. There was a constant race for “good grades” which at worst functioned like votes in a popularity contest. “Sally didn’t get an ‘A’ so you don’t like her!” Parents were not
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The Disenchantment of the Modern Professor 0
- Education
- November 3, 2017
As demonstrated by some of the responses to my blog post—“Why Professors Are Writing Crap That Nobody Reads”—today’s academics can be a sensitive bunch. Most professors seemed to agree with me that much—not all—of academic research today is poorly written, obscurantist, and of dubious merit. Other professors, however, were furious that someone would dare make that
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There Is No Such Thing as Equality, and Thank Goodness 0
- November 3, 2017
Typically, Hayek’s chapter titles leave nothing to the imagination. But as I encountered the “Who, Whom” title of chapter eight in The Road to Serfdom, I had to do a doubletake. Having the modern luxury of Google at my fingertips, I soon learned that Hayek’s title was actually a Bolshevist slogan made popular by Lenin
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How Celebrities Cleverly Evade Responsibility for their Actions 0
- November 3, 2017
Both Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey have announced they are going into “rehab” in order to seek “treatment” for the actions that have recently come to light. Weinstein said he, like Tiger Woods and Anthony Weiner, as well as numerous celebrities before him, is going into “treatment” for “sex addiction.” It was not disclosed what
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Millennials in America Have a Troubling View of Communism and Socialism 0