As a late Jane Austen fan… this is very good. ======= WSJ 1/2/2018 If you’re struggling to make sense of the sexual-harassment issues swirling around us, you could do worse than read Jane Austen. I was struck by this recently while teaching what she called her “rather too light and bright and sparkling” novel, “Pride and Prejudice.” Consider the portion of the novel... Read more
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Jane Austen and Sexual Harassment
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Western CivilizationTales from the NEA Crypt
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Democrat Party, NEAWhere is the NEA?? The silence is condemning.. ====== WSJ 1/2/2018 Detroit’s public schools are among the nation’s worst, which may explain how far they’ll go to deny students a better choice. Witness how the school district is preventing a charter from expanding into an abandoned elementary school. Detroit Prep is a public charter school with 80 students from kindergarten to second... Read more
Blue State Taxes?
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Tax Issues, Trump, UnionsLike it or not, this may be one of the best results of the tax re-write… for everyone! ========= WSJ 1/2/2018 The great American migration out of high-tax states like New York and Illinois may be about to accelerate. The tax reform enacted last month caps the deduction for state and local taxes, known as SALT, at $10,000. This means millions of... Read more
Donald Trump’s Watergate? – WSJ
January 2 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, US ConstitutionMr. Bork. A shame that the USA did not benefit from your presence on the Supreme Court. ======== WSJ 1/2/2018 Robert Bork has been dead five years. But at a moment when the air is thick with reckless talk about a “constitutional crisis” if President Trump were to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Bork’s explanation for his firing of Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox... Read more
The Interconnected World and Martin Luther?
December 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Interesting, TechnologySome thoughts about how things change, and yet how much stays the same… ========= By Niall Ferguson Originally published in The Sunday Times, October 1, 2017 Just as Martin Luther’s utopian vision and the invention of the printing press led to an era of religious war and turmoil, the internet, hailed as a portal to a better world, is threatening democracy The hyperconnected world was... Read more
A Space Corps?
December 23 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, MilitaryAnother area that certainly needs more attention than it has gotten – similar to “Internet Warfare”. ======== WSJ 12/22/2017 By Taylor Dinerman America’s military satellites— tens of billions of dollars worth of equipment—are utterly defenseless. An adversary using swarms of antisatellite weapons could rapidly destroy U.S. communications, early-warning, navigation and surveillance spacecraft, leaving the military blind, deaf and lost. Without these space systems,... Read more
