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...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 7, 2021 | Culture, Guns, Opinion, Politics
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, he of the COVID nursing home disaster, the $5.1M “look at how brilliantly I managed the pandemic” book deal, and nearly a dozen sexual harassment allegations, has boldly declared a state of emergency over “gun...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 6, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
Critical Race Theory is all the rage these days. In both the figurative and literal senses. Big Education, aka the NEA, the AFT. and other such organizations, is all-in on teaching CRT to schoolchildren. They’re also committing resources to opposition research,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 2, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Robin DiAngelo, PhD, author of “White Fragility” and ‘White Fragility 2: Electric Boogaloo’ (actual title, “Nice Racism”), has deftly employed a cheap-trick debating trap into the cultural wedge of our time. In two words,...
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