Any honest historian following the news in this country has got to a bit queasy these days. Those paying special attention to the Middle East have to be verging on nausea. “From the river to the sea, Palestine must be free” and other venomous drivel spewed by the empty-headed hatemongers in our major institutions of …
Category Archives: Culture and education
The Decadent Phase
Our republic seems perilously close to its decadent phase, in which anonymous bureaucrats of a bloated central government connive with political demagogues to establish a tyranny in which they think they will rule forever. They are wrong about the last bit of course, but their actions may well destroy the country we know and which …
The Deeply Evil State
Thank God for Elon Musk. One may love him, hate him, think him mad as a March Hare – but there is no doubt that the documents he has dumped from the corporate memory of Twitter reveals to anyone with the slightest bit of curiosity both the evil behind the anodyne term “deep state” and …
Evil in Legal Clothing
Want to have a look at genuine evil? It’s rare that we get a chance. Revolutionary France’s 1793 “Law of Suspects,” our 1857 Dred Scott decision and Nazi Germany’s 1941 “Night and Fog” decree are historical examples. For a more contemporary take, try reading California bill AB 2223, now state law having been approved on …
On The Abolition of Man
Here’s a way to tell one is in the presence of genius: they can foretell the future. In 1947 British author C.S. Lewis completed and published “The Abolition of Man.” The slim volume was a collection of three lectures he gave at the University of Durham focusing on education. It makes chilling reading today because …
Arbitrary, Cruel, Bloody and Diabolical
“…Despotism…is the same in a Majority of a popular Assembly, an Aristocratical Counsel, an Oligarchical Junto and a single Emperor. Equally arbitrary, cruel, bloody and in every respect, diabolical.”
-Letter from John Adams to Thomas Jefferson, November 13, 1815.
Educational Malpractice
The figures are in, and they ain’t pretty. Now that the National Assessment of Educational Progress – known colloquially as the “nation’s report card” is out, we know that fourth-grade students have made no advances in math or reading since 2012. Thirty-four and thirty-one percent respectively were “proficient” then, thirty-four and thirty-one percent now. For …
Bad and Dangerous Math
“Look, here it is.” Joe Biden is lying again. In his Monday morning press conference on raising the national debt, he echoed the argument, oft-heard from Democrat lawmakers, that we have to “raise the debt ceiling to pay for money already spent by both parties.” Which is an outright lie. According to the Treasury Department, …
The Same Old Mistake
I recently toured the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada. Like its many counterparts around the United States, it was founded in the last decades of the 19th century. Like them, it was created to save Native Americans by forcing them to assimilate to the predominant culture, like it or not. Early on, children …
Nancy Pelosi’s Terrorist Show Trial
Nancy Pelosi’s version of the 1936 Moscow “Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center” trial has begun, and smartly, too. Four uniformed policemen, two from the Capitol police force, two from the Washington, D.C. police, performed their assigned roles flawlessly, tearfully recounting their trauma and horror at hordes of protesters swarming into the Capitol building. At least two of …