Things Have Changed

This is a post from October 2016 which I thought timely today and a followup to my A Closed Ecosystem post from October 2020.  It was origin...

Insularity : ignorance of or lack of interest in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience.   I like to occasionally rea...

The Trump administration has recently taken four important actions confronting the scourge of racial discrimination and stereotyping underly...

Excellent point by Greg Lukianoff, CEO, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education "We kid ourselves if we believe our legal freedom...

In his new newsletter, Andrew Sullivan, a liberal recently purged from New York Magazine for insufficient Wokeness, provides the best short ...

New York Times classical music critic : " blind audition s" put into place in the classical music world during the 1970s to ensur...

While coordinating its messaging about " mostly peaceful protests " in the wake of George Floyd's death, the media has delib...

I've been recommending James Lindsay's New Discourses for those interested in gaining a deeper knowledge of the perverse world of a...

Woke progressive thought, Social Justice, and Critical Race Theory are related to traditional Marxism and communism but they are not quite t...

Recent events have prompted me to go back and republish some pieces I wrote several years ago that relate to our current crisis.  This is fr...

"[Critical Race Theory] is evil.  It plays on people’s best nature; it takes good people and twists them to its purpose."    - ...

A decade ago a friend in China gave me a bound volume called "Red Memory" containing posters from the Cultural Revolution (for bac...

Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Reflections on the Revolution in France : I cannot conceive how any man can have brought himself to that pitch ...

"The Court expects that 25 years from now, the use of racial preferences will no longer be necessary to further the interest approved...

I'm reposting this piece I published four years ago on this date because, sadly, what I feared has come true and the deluge has arrived ...

Good movie! I did not watch President Trump's July 3 speech at Mt Rushmore because I can't stand watching or listening to him. T...

I try not to react to everything I see on the internet for fear of becoming THAT GUY.  At first, I was going to ignore this tweet from Valer...