OK, I promise that this blog will not turn into “I Make Jokes About the University of Austin All the Goddamn Time”. Probably. But, hey, this is funny: Exactly a week after former New York Times opinion columnist Bari Weiss unveiled the creation of a hypothetical new “university” stacked with advisers united by “a common…
Michael S. Roth, president of Wesleyan University, giving a remarkably convincing impression of a pompous ass
Yeah, Pres Roth has a post up in Politico, commenting on the plans for a new school “the University of Austin”, whose perhaps not overwhelming prospects I commented on here last week. Yet I gave a pretty hearty thumb’s up to new Austin pres Pano Kanelos’ harsh words regarding the curse of political correctness that…
I invented that! Well, sort of.
Over at Bari Weiss’ substack blog, Common Sense, Pano Kanelos, former President of St. John’s College and now newly minted President of the newly minted University of Austin, explains his game plan: We Can’t Wait for Universities to Fix Themselves. So We’re Starting a New One. There is a gaping chasm between the promise and…
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Paris, 1960 Full Concert
Not really a Miles guy, but this is fantastic. No video, but, you know, so what. March 21, 1960 Olympia Theatre, Paris, France Miles Davis Quintet: Miles Davis (tpt); John Coltrane (ts); Wynton Kelly (p); Paul Chambers (b); Jimmy Cobb (d). Posted by Milestones: A Miles Davis Archive
Democrats in disarray! Who could have seen this coming?
Well, who but everyone? Yes, Joe Biden and his Merry Band have been hit with lots of bad news beyond their control, like the D variant, which put the kibosh on the back to new normal celebrations of last spring, and the continuing flood of desperate immigrants, and the rise in gas prices, and inflation…
For the Democrats, suddenly it’s 1978. And 1994. And 2010. Has anyone seen Dick Morris?
Yes, Democrats never seem to learn. Winning an election doesn’t mean you get to have everything you’ve always wanted for Christmas. You could, I guess, excuse Jimmy Carter, and Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama, for all getting it wrong, but Joe Biden, surely the oldest DC hand ever elected to the presidency, can’t exactly claim…
2020 Inaugural Jack Rudin Jazz Championship: Manhattan School of Music—“Brilliant Corners”
Feminist “rage” at Bloomberg.com
The World’s Top Business Cities Are Still Failing Working Women announces/pronounces/bellows “Bloomberg Equality + CityLab”, apparently a “thing”, though I certainly wasn’t aware of it until now. For the millions of working women in the world’s leading cities for doing business, daily life is often shaped by what they cannot do and how they’re excluded….
Let’s all hope Terry McAuliffe doesn’t get what he deserves for uncritically embracing Virginia’s all too woke education lobby
There was a time—there was a long time—during both the Clinton and Obama administrations when the Democratic neoliberal establishment did not much care for the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, regarding them, correctly, as enemies of educational reform, more interested in protecting bad teachers than helping struggling students. Well, that was…
Nice essay, George F. Will! But not, you know, perfect!
Hey, Georgie boy’s snappy retrospective of how a slightly pushy young lad from the sticks became the biggest goddamn Bow Tie the Beltway had ever seen—The pursuit of happiness is happiness—is not at all a bad read, informative and even touching at times, words I haven’t always used when discussing Mr. Will. I was particularly…