A long but excellent history and analysis of perhaps the greatest public-policy blunder in history.
Category Archives: Education
The Democrats’ Problems
They can’t fix them by November.
Yes, you can’t climb out of a hole that you’ve been digging for years in six months (even if you have the sense to even stop digging, which they don’t seem to have). This is bad news for an ever-terrible political party, but good news for the Republic.
Trans Ideology
How it dehumanizes women.
Brendan O’Neill made the sacrifice of reading a vile heap of insanity from a Berkeley professor, so you didn’t have to.
Dietary BS
No, seed oils are not “healthy oils,” and you don’t get high cholesterol from eating saturated fats.
It’s Earth Day Again
I know I’ve managed to do so.
Covid Closures
How they took a toll on the kids.
Many of us frustrated by the lengthy school closures were enraged by a statement we found far too dismissive and even callous: “Kids are resilient.” (The great Mary Katharine Ham tore this apart back in January.) All too often, that was a blasé slogan designed to excuse an intolerable status quo.
Our kids aren’t necessarily resilient, and we didn’t like having their need to be resilient shoved upon them by teachers’ unions who kept dragging their feet on reopening schools and public-health officials who deemed birthday parties, travel, summer camps, visiting grandparents, etc. an intolerable risk.
Infuriating.
Progressive Intellectual Life
Thoughts on the end of it.
The Country Has A Potemkin Government
…and it’s not just Joe Biden.
It’s a depressing read, but it rings true.
She doesn’t mention it, but when it comes to human spaceflight, we have a Potemkin space program as well.
Taylor Lorenz
The Jews Who Didn’t Leave Egypt
Thoughts on freedom, and sacrifice.
Most people won’t leave Earth, either (just as most didn’t leave Europe to come to the New World).