A useful Twitter thread on Critical Theory and wokeness.
We need to understand it if we’re going to fight it.
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Heather MacDonald: Conformity to a lie in academia.
[Afternoon update]
The challenge of Marxism. A long, but worthwhile read.
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The death spasms of Marxism are driving its adherents crazier by the day.
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How it burns out.
If I were in charge, I would remove the word “race” from the entire federal code.
We are looking at the end stages. The scam can’t end soon enough.
People are noting in the restaurant post that (ignoring the Democrats’ ongoing war against small businesses), the institutions hit hardest by the pandemic are dominated by the left. There is no small irony in that.
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Steven Hayward: “Where’s the bad news here?”
Some history to put current events in context.
This history is not taught much in American schools.
Some interesting thoughts. I’m a somewhat aggressive independent thinker. Elon is way out on that spectrum.
Baby, please come back.
This virus has been like a wildfire, sweeping through education, academia, and blue cities. It took technological and social trends that were already happening, and rapidly accelerated them, and now they’re smoldering ashes. I don’t think any of them will ever be the same again. And that’s not a bad thing.
…has been oversold.
At some point, the people will simply rebel.
And a depressing post from Virginia Postrel about “the new normal.”
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In which the former editor of Reason magazine is called a “lefty Marxist.”
Has it begun?
There’s a mountain of evidence that it’s effective.
How many people have died due to this latest Trump derangement?