A very good read. Will be a multi-part post. ===== By MATTHEW KAMINSKI New Haven, Conn. Donald Kagan is engaging in one last argument. For his “farewell lecture” here at Yale on Thursday afternoon, the 80-year-old scholar of ancient Greece—whose four-volume history of the Peloponnesian War inspired comparisons to Edward Gibbon’s Roman history—uncorked a biting critique of American higher education. Universities, he proposed, are failing... Read more
Archive for the ‘Politically correct’ Category
Donald Kagan on Democracy – part 1
April 28 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctClinging to Guns—and Abortion
April 19 | Posted by mrossol | Liberal Press, Obama, Politically correct, The LeftI’ve already heard it: “We dont’ ‘cling’; we hold firmly to honorable convictions.” =============== Atop the quotable Barack Obama there will be this: “And it’s not surprising then that they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them.” Everyone clings to something. But when it comes to criticizing unseemly political dependencies, it’s almost always liberals... Read more
9-24-177-620. Do you know this metric?
April 6 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctGreat advice for us all: my liberal friends, but also my conservative ones. ============== By WARREN KOZAK This is the season when college notifications go out, and a simple “yes” is seen as a ticket to success. Applicants, though, can never be quite sure why they were accepted or rejected—subjective criteria, in addition to test scores, are used in the evaluations. For many New... Read more
Only Newtown? God Help Us
December 17 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Liberal Press, Politically correctMr. Stein says it so very well. Teaching morality? Rearing young men in America? Turning a blind eye? ====== Sunday I learned about the massacre at Sandy Hook elementary school while we were setting up at Fox News to tape Cavuto on Business. The news was so horrible that we all felt as if we had lost our legs and could no longer... Read more
Never Blame a Woman
November 20 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Obama, Politically correct, The LeftDon’t hold your breath… ============== By JAMES TARANTO President Obama’s faux-chivalrous defense of U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice got some backup Friday, when “a dozen female members of the House,” all Democrats and “the majority of them African American like Rice,” held a Capitol Hill press conference. They asserted, in the words of an Associated Press report, that “Republican senators’ angry criticism . .... Read more
How Free Speech Died on Campus
November 19 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Politically correctAs go the universities, so goes the culture… ============= By SOHRAB AHMARI New York At Yale University, you can be prevented from putting an F. Scott Fitzgerald quote on your T-shirt. At Tufts, you can be censured for quoting certain passages from the Quran. Welcome to the most authoritarian institution in America: the modern university—”a bizarre, parallel dimension,” as Greg Lukianoff, president of the... Read more
