by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 18, 2021 | Culture, Education
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is a follow-up to We Expect Less Of You, wherein I opine on a university’s decision to de-emphasize good grammar and spelling. My father had an employee, decades back, who worked crazy hours at his restaurant. The man, whose...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 17, 2021 | Culture, Drug Policy, Economics, Education, Election, Environment, Featured, Guns, Health, Immigration, Not Politics, Opinion, Politics, Taxation, Uncategorized
If so, and if you like the content you find here on TheRootsOfLiberty.com, you can help the cause in many ways. First, don’t hesitate to share any articles you like, anywhere you wish. Seeds of liberty can be planted in many different fields, and it can be...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 17, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion
The University of Hull, a school on the north-central eastern shore of England, raised a bit of a kerfuffle with a policy declaration that “[s]tudents studying at the University of Hull will not be marked down for poor spelling, grammar and punctuation in exams...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 16, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A few months ago, the New York Post ran a series of stories about Hunter Biden’s laptop and its contents. Twitter decided that this was not to be shared across its platform, and suspended the Post’s account. Only a rank partisan would imagine that Twitter...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 12, 2021 | Culture
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius, last of Machiavelli’s Five Good Emperors and adherent of Stoicism, (purportedly) offered up a bit of advice regarding life and religious beliefs: Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 5, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Georgia and Texas enacted voting reforms in the wake of the mess that was the 2020 election. Quick as you can say “woke,” the states’ legislators and governors were denounced by the Democratic leadership and by those of a “woke”...
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