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Uncertainty’s A Hit!
It hasn't been a year, but Springer issued its annual report, and, in my eyes anyway, Uncertainty is a hit! From 30 June 2016 through the first two weeks of…
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It’s Worse Than You Thought
Despair is not the answer to the following confirmations of gloom and decadence about which you might have been unaware. Recognition of the depths to which Western liberal culture has…
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The World Is Flat Again
Our dear and most beneficent government has lied to us before. It has exaggerated. It has abused its authority. Its crimes, negligence, improprieties, and its many others sins are brought…
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Campus Idiocy Roundup I
For busy readers, here's the conclusion: Nuke 'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure. Headline Those 'Snowflakes' Have Chilling Effects Even Beyond the Campus. Like Antony Esolen,…
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Home School College
Note: a more thorough review of Esolen's book is coming very soon. Thanks to Ben Franklin, it has always been possible to home-school yourself to a college education. Libraries let…
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What Is Communism? Part I — Guest Post by Ianto Watt
Editor's note. A particularly apropos (leisurely paced, so relax) essay on the nature of Communism. Recall this is 2017, one hundred years after the successful revolutions in Russia. Just what…
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The Violent Rule America’s Campuses: Middlebury College, Berkeley Update
The original story begins below, which ran on 14 February 2017. Events since then have confirmed the original conclusions. Middlebury Update Violent students at Middlebury College attacked and badly wounded…
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Eastern Michigan To Install Zampolit In Every Classroom To Maintain Ideological Purity
Maintaining ideological purity requires constant vigilance. The Commissars in the old Union of Soviet Socialist Republics knew this well. This is why they assigned zampolit, or political officers, to serve…