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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…
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More On SJWs & STEM
Had to leave quite a bit out of last week's article SJWs Coming for Mathematics. The impetus for that column was an ad for math education professors who were first…
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SJWs Coming For Mathematics
Stream: SJWs Coming For Mathematics Great news! For those kids who will be taught math by teachers graduating from Texas State University's Math Education program, life just got easier. This…
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Glubb Glubb Glubb: The Noise A Drowning Civilization Makes
Here are excerpts and minor commentary on Lieutenant General Sir John Bagot Glubb's "The Fate of Empires", an essay which describes, at least for the West and for nations closely…