Oh, yes, we should be really, really worried! ====== WSJ 11/5/2018 By Andy Kessler Hardly a week goes by that I don’t run into people who, when I ask how they are doing, tell me they’re worried about authoritarianism. Living in California, my impulse is to ask if they’re worried about the state’s one-party rule. But before I can get that out, the... Read more
Archive for the ‘Social Engineering’ Category
Worried About Big Brother?
November 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, China, Social Engineering, The LeftDoes Diversity Really Unite Us? Citizenship and Immigration – Imprimis
August 5 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Social EngineeringThe following is adapted from a speech delivered on April 11, 2018, at a Hillsdale College National Leadership Seminar in Colorado Springs. President Trump’s zero-tolerance policy for illegal border crossers has provoked a hysterical reaction from Democrats, establishment Republicans, the progressive-liberal media, Hollywood radicals, and the deep state. What particularly motivated the ire of these Trump-haters was the fact that the... Read more
Self-Restraint?
December 11 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Henninger, Social Engineering, Western CivilizationSome have been making this argument for years… ====== WSJ 12/8/2017 Daniel Henninger The Harvey Weinstein sexual-harassment fire burns on, consuming famous men. Corporations and institutions are on a u tomated rapid response: proclaim zero tolerance and throw offenders into the street, while directing human- resources departments to design fine-grained standards of acceptable behavior. It would be a comfort to think that HR... Read more
Racial Affirmative Action Failed
November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Social EngineeringWSJ -10/27/2017 By John Katzman And Steve Cohen We disagree in principle about affirmative action. One of us, a frequent fundraiser for Democratic candidates, believes that it’s better for colleges to have a diverse student body that more faithfully reflects the nation; and that we need to counterbalance the impact of poverty on education and opportunity, which often means giving special consideration... Read more
Targeting Down Syndrome
May 28 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Europe, Social Engineering=== WSJ – 5/25/2017 By Sohrab Ahmari Paris You can learn a lot about a society by paying attention to what it censors. The Soviet Union went to great lengths to block the truth about freedom and prosperity in the West. Today China’s ruling Communists suppress historical memory of their crimes, above all the Tiananmen Square massacre, while the censors in my... Read more
Where did today’s Campus Culture Come From?
March 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Ruling Class, Social EngineeringNo one should be surprised… ======= WSJ By Crispin Sartwell We are witnessing the second great era of speech repression in academia, the first coming during the “culture wars” of the late 1980s and early ’90s. One force behind the new wave is a theory of truth, or a picture of reality, developed the first time around. This theory, which we might call “linguistic... Read more
