by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 30, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The normalizing of the idea that “some animals are more equal than others” (George Orwell’s denouement in Animal Farm) has not only resulted in a grievance hierarchy, but ensured that various identity groups would devote increasing amounts of energy...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 29, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
A political friend brought my attention to an interesting (and growing) phenomenon in the public sphere: the mining of someone’s distant past for transgressions against current social mandates. Or, more sinisterly, as a means of taking down someone with whom...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 26, 2019 | Culture, Drug Policy, Guns, Health, Opinion, Politics
Major cities around the nation have an ever-increasing, and in some cases dire, homeless problem. New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, San Diego, DC, San Jose, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Boston, and Philadelphia rank one through ten in homeless populations, and combined...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 23, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
All around me, people are engaging in all sorts of post-hoc adjustments of their initial public reactions to the Covington High School incident. I’m going to engage in a tiny bit of smug here, because I neither had nor offered any knee-jerk response to the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 21, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
If you are a regular consumer of political news, or if you are on social media and have some politically minded likes and friends, you’ve no doubt heard the outrageous story about the MAGA hat wearing Catholic high school student confronting a Native American at...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 20, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
In a recent interview with Ben Shapiro, political columnist Heather Mac Donald skewered some college kids’ pursuit of ever-more-granularized identity group badges: … all the various gender identities that are being rapidly crafted by desperate students who...
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