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 | Jun 26, 2021 | Culture, Election, Opinion, Politics
I recently learned something new. Normally, learning something new is a good thing, but the implications of this one are infuriating. As most know, the Woke Left has its own lexicon, and more acronyms than the Department of Defense. It also is constantly trotting out...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Jun 22, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
“Left” political ideology has more regard for utility than principles. That utility is found in its language. George Orwell, this blog’s spiritual father, is the most important teacher of how politics uses the tools of language to serve it, rather...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 11, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics, Taxation
Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business and eventually degenerates into a racket. Thus wrote* social philosopher Eric Hoffer in 1967. Its truth could not be more timely, no matter that it was written half a century ago. Regular readers know...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 17, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion
The University of Hull, a school on the north-central eastern shore of England, raised a bit of a kerfuffle with a policy declaration that “[s]tudents studying at the University of Hull will not be marked down for poor spelling, grammar and punctuation in exams...
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