by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A couple decades back, I briefly dated a British woman who, in a political conversation whose specific subject is lost to memory, voiced the phrase: Because we’re smarter than they are. That, as opposed to the particulars of our discussion, seared itself in my...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Day in and day out, I’m informed that America’s leftists (they are not liberals, and I shall no longer soil that word by association) are not Marxist, or communists, or old-school socialists, or even fascists. Day in and day out, I’m scolded about...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 20, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
I like Jordan Peterson. Those four words, in and of themselves, are sufficient to induce some on the Left to call me a long stream of obscenities and nasty names, derogatory (and false) labels, and dismiss me as an irredeemable, deplorable, a bitter clinger, a racist....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 13, 2021 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
No, not that epidemic. The obesity epidemic. Ours is a marvelously schizophrenic society, and it’s almost nowhere more apparent than in its duality regarding obesity. We hear constant concern about an obesity epidemic, about it being a public health crisis, and...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 12, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Education, Opinion, Politics
“Great” is the it-word of our day. The pandemic has motivated some to push for a Great Reset, wherein capitalism is set aside in favor of some presumably better way of economic interaction (i.e. the Best-and-Brightest will run our lives for us). That this...
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