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Insanity & Doom Update XXVIII
Item City Council wants new schools chancellor to 'take bold action' City lawmakers are demanding that incoming schools chief Richard Carranza bring his focus on ethnic and LGBTQ studies with…
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The First Thing We Do, Let’s Kill All The Administrators
We last met Ron Srigley in the pages of the LA Review of Books lamenting the sad state of students and professors. He's back to tell us the infuriating tale…
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Take Burnham’s Test To See If You’re A Progressive: Suicide of the West at 50
This classic column appeared in July 2015. Besides some editing, I would now change 'liberal' to 'progressive', which I have done in the title. I made no other change. See…
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Glubb Pasha’s Experiences With American Democracy
[The image above flashed by on the interwebs, and it struck me as humorously apt, though I can't now recall where I first saw it. If the picture has any…
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The New Old University: The Outline
It is clear the University system is broken and almost surely beyond repair. Even secular sources are saying so. Public ideological commitment to "Diversity" (strict enforced uniformity) is increasingly required;…
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Professors Say Lack of Ideological Diversity is a Feature, not a Bug
Stream: Professors Say Lack of Ideological Diversity is a Feature, not a Bug You know who the real champions of open debate on our beleaguered college campuses are? Social justice…
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Insanity & Doom Update XII
Item Is Homosexual Practice No Worse Than Any Other Sin? Why, then, do so many insist on an 'egalitarian view of sin'? There may be several reasons working together. First,…
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Pew: Partisan Divides Over Political Values Widen, Part I
Pew has a survey out which measures, sort of, our increasing political and cultural apartness (a.k.a. apartheid). The gap between the political values of Democrats and Republicans is now larger…