WSJ 5/2/2018 By Kevin Brookes And Patrick Déry
Why are So Many People Closed Minded??
April 23 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, The LeftIf you don’t appreciate this article, you are BLIND. ===== WSJ 4/23/2018 By Annafi Wahed It was an unseasonably cold night, but I made the trek from Harlem to a meetup in Brooklyn. The organizers promised a night of big ideas and freethinking; the group thread included a quote from David Bohm about the virtue of free dialogue. But as with many such... Read more
Are We Free to Discuss America’s Real Problems? – Imprimis
March 1 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Losing FreedomVery timely article. Thanks to Hillsdale College. https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/are-we-free-to-discuss-americas-real-problems/ ====== The following is adapted from a speech delivered on December 12, 2017, at Hillsdale College’s Allan P. Kirby, Jr. Center for Constitutional Studies and Citizenship in Washington, D.C., as part of the AWC Family Foundation Lecture Series. There is a lot of abstract talk these days on American college campuses about free speech and the... Read more
When Listening is Not Listening
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left=== WSJ 11/16/2017 By Zachary Wood – Williamstown, Mass. ‘You’re a racist white supremacist!” a Williams College student shouted at Christina Hoff Sommers, after she finished a recent campus talk on feminism. To their credit, a handful of students responded to Ms. Sommers’s talk with challenging questions and cogent criticisms. But insults, rants and meltdowns consumed the majority of the question-and-answer session. As president... Read more
James Madison Weeps
September 27 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left, US ConstitutionWSJ Sept. 19, 2017 7:13 p.m. ET ‘Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government,” wrote Ben Franklin. “When this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved.” Imagine what Franklin, James Madison and the other Founders would make of a new Brookings Institution survey showing that American college students have no clue what... Read more
The Poison of Identity Politics
August 15 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Economics, The LeftI see this every day. America needs to come to grips or the future will not be pretty. ======= WSJ 8/14/2017 As ever in this age of Donald Trump, politicians and journalists are reducing the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday to a debate over Mr. Trump’s words and intentions. That’s a mistake no matter what you think of the President, because the... Read more
