WSJ 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
Archive for the ‘Politically correct’ Category
James Madison Weeps
September 27 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Education, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The Left, US ConstitutionDon’t Even Think About Being Evil
August 15 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, American Thought, Politically correctHope this doesn’t reflect on my work-place, but not sure I would bet money on that. ===== WSJ 8/15/2017 By Heather Mac Donald ‘Just wait till those campus snowflakes enter the real world—that’ll shape ’em up!” So goes a typical response to totalitarian hysteria at colleges. The firing of a Google engineer last week for questioning the company’s diversity ideology exposes that hope as... Read more
Morrissey on Manchester
May 28 | Posted by mrossol | ISIS, Politically correct, Radical Islam, Terrorism, Western Civilization===== WSJ 5/25/2017 Celebrating my birthday in Manchester as news of the Manchester Arena bomb broke. The anger is monumental. For what reason will this ever stop? Theresa May says such attacks “will not break us”, but her own life is lived in a bullet-proof bubble, and she evidently does not need to identify any young people today in Manchester morgues. Also, “will not... Read more
A Philosopher Gets Pilloried
May 12 | Posted by mrossol | 1st Amendment, Liberal Press, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, The LeftAnother example of the left’s ‘war on free speech’. Don’t argue the issue, rather attack the messenger. ====== By Jillian Kay Melchior [ as reported in WSJ 5/9/2017] Usually, when junior professors publish scholarly articles, they are lucky to elicit more than a yawn. But last week the philosophical musings of Rebecca Tuvel, an associate professor at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tenn., provoked... Read more
Letters about “Evil White Men”
May 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Politically correct, StupiditySome of the best letters I’ve read in a long time… ===== WSJ 4/28/2017 A ‘Snowflake’ Blizzard Buries Free Thought In “Those ‘Snowflakes’ Have Chilling Effects Even Beyond the Campus” (op-ed, April 22), Heather Mac Donald suggests the source of “snowflake” behavior among millennials on college campuses comes from a cultural orientation that is contra-Occidental and that students view themselves as victims of... Read more
