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Sledding Down the Slippery Slope 0
- Culture
- December 31, 2020
A friend who was just noodling around the AccuWeather site found a blog post called “Why Have Midwestern Cities Banned a Beloved Winter Pastime?” The piece, which seems like it might just sit in a slush pile on AccuWeather‘s news desk and await recycling every snow season, discusses a few horrible
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What the Editors are Reading: ‘Our Man: Richard Holbrooke’0
- Literature
- December 31, 2020
Richard Holbrooke was the most shameless self-promoter in Washington D.C., a town that specialized in self-promotion, as George Packer writes in Our Man: Richard Holbrooke and the End of the American Century. He was a social climber par excellence, a sycophant who embarrassed Barack Obama with his flattery to such an extent that he was banned from the
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Footprints in the Snow: The Burgling of America 0
- Culture
- December 31, 2020
Roughly twenty years ago, a man in Asheville, North Carolina left his home in the wee hours of the morning, walked a couple of blocks to a convenience store, burglarized the store, and returned home with his loot. Unfortunately for our thief, snow had blanketed the city earlier that night. After responding to the burglary
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Pandemic Exposes Flaws of Education System, Educator Says 0
- Education
- December 31, 2020
I would guess that the neighbor kids living across the street from me are a microcosm of America’s youth population. The oldest hates the distance learning that has been inflicted upon him in recent months. His younger sister, however, loves the secluded learning environment, and would be happy if she never had to go back
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2020: The Year ‘Expert’ Credibility Died 0
- Culture
- December 30, 2020
If there were ever a time to “question authority,” as the old counterculture slogan of the 1960s urged, the authoritarian age of COVID-19 is that time. Two thousand twenty will go down in American history as the year that public health “experts” got everything wrong. It’s not just that their judgment
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Political Correctness in the History of the South 0
- History
- December 30, 2020
I was recently gifted “The South Was Right,” by James Ronald and Walter Donald Kennedy, an updated version of a work originally produced in 1994. Seeking an antidote to the PC historiography in which our universities are now awash, I happily plunged into this printed gift. The present “leftist ideologues,” more than their predecessors, hate
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