by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 10, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
“The school can ask you to leave for any reason,” said one mother at Brentwood, another Los Angeles prep school. “Then you’ll be blacklisted from all the private schools and you’ll be known as a racist, which is worse than being called a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 5, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Three weeks ago, NY Governor Andrew Cuomo’s top aide, secretary to the governor Melissa DeRosa, had an “oops” moment, wherein she confessed to something that many of us already knew: that there were not only thousands of deaths attributable to a...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 3, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion
Cancel Culture, a phenomenon whose existence (too) many contort themselves into pretzels denying, has “found” the writings of Theodore Geisel. Or, as most of us know him, Dr. Seuss, author of more than 60 books and creator of The Cat In The Hat, Sam-I-Am,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 25, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The en-vogue social theory of modern times, when stripped of its various veneers, boils down to a simple concept: that there are oppressors and oppressed. Not individuals, mind you, but groups, aka classes, aka categories, aka “identities,” and our only...
by Peter Venetoklis | Feb 22, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
Identity and “woke” politics are, it seems, an endless game of “hold my beer,” where every face-palm inducing iteration begets an even more outrageous offering. Yesterday’s escalation arrives from none other than the Coca-Cola company,...
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