The Ivies took a pounding, and New York Representative Elise Stefanik received a publicity boost more valuable than gold, and it couldn’t have come to a less deserving person.1 The supposedly brilliant scholars heading Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and M.I.T. came across as scripted robots, not responding actively to Stefanik’s leading questions—that “intifada”, which…
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Who’s stoopider, Noah Rothman, the New York Times, or the U.S. Treasury? Tough call!
Damn right it is. Over at the National Review, hot shot author Noah Rothman, whose best-selling book, The Rise of the New Puritans, trashing those damn West Coast hippies grown old and rich and censorious, which, if I read it, I’d probably agree with more often than not, is on a tear, tearing into those…
Meet the New Anti-Semitism, Same as the Old Anti-Semitism. Or is it worse?
Peter Beinart has a characteristically excellent post in Jewish Currents, Antisemitic Zionists Aren’t a Contradiction in Terms, explaining why, both historically and today, many anti-Semites around the world praise and admire Israel—because they want their countries to be as ethnically “pure” as they imagine Israel to be, and because they wish “their” Jews would get…
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…