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Among the Intellectualoids
Among the Intellectualoids
by | Mar 14, 2023

Academic- and government-sponsored misinformation based on “the science” may have become a focal point during the COVID pandemic, but it is nothing new. Like Ptolemy needing extremely complex models to explain the observed movements of the sun and the planets…

by | Jan 3, 2023

Karl Marx once famously commented that Hegel wrote that history repeats itself. Marx then supplemented this by noting that this happens the first time as tragedy, the second as farce. And it is perhaps ironic that this is nowhere more…

by | Aug 5, 2022

When tears flow, they wipe them with a handkerchief, When blood flows, they hurry with their sponges, But when the spirit seeps out under oppression, They don’t come running with an open hand, ’Til God, with a flash of lightning,…

by | Apr 23, 2022

Consider him a great playwright and screenwriter, if you wish — call him, for that matter, as some have done, the greatest living American dramatist — and, while I couldn’t disagree more, I won’t argue with you, either. But I…

by | Feb 4, 2022

Last week in the Atlantic, David Graham took aim at smart conservative politicians who play dumb. He declares at the beginning of his piece, “This is the age of smart politicians pretending to be stupid.” As evidence, he mainly cites…

by | Oct 26, 2021

Horace Mann’s legacy is literally carved in stone. Across America his name appears in lapidary form above schoolhouse doors, a signal accomplishment for someone who turned 20 without spending more than six weeks a year in classrooms. Mann rose from…

by | Aug 29, 2021

It transpired shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968, at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It should have been a great night for Bobby Kennedy, one of celebration. He had just achieved a grand political victory, having won California…

by | Aug 22, 2021

The debacle in Afghanistan is a failure of America’s political and military elites. It is a bipartisan failure stretching back 20 years. But it was preceded by similar losses in Korea, Southeast Asia, and Iraq — failures that resulted from…

by | Aug 8, 2021

While militant ideologies can appear as a source of stark clarity in an often-muddled world, their excesses only serve to erode the tradition of liberty. Amid historical instability, people often sought the simple security of absolutes. Thomas Hobbes insisted that…

by | Mar 19, 2021

The Left’s long march through our institutions has finally clinched the ultimate glittering trophy — the unfettered indoctrination of our young. A stampede of schools seeking to boast the credential of becoming anti-racist, guided by the lodestars of diversity, equity,…

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