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 Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jan 25, 2019 | Health, Opinion, Politics
A disclaimer: To preserve confidentiality, this patient’s name has been changed, and “she” is a composite of several people,. The incidents affirmed here are otherwise factual as witnessed directly by the author. This article will be followed up at a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 24, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
A recent “she’s awesome because everyone hates her” hagiography in Rolling Stone about the newly minted Congresswoman and current political it-girl Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, written by leftist screech owl Matt Taibbi, proved the old saw that even a...
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 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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