by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 26, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
The effort to change the way New York City’s elite public high schools admit students provides us not only with a window into the progressive’s world view, but also with some insight as to the demands placed on our culture’s “oppressed”...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 21, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Opinion, Politics
The scene in Monty Python and the Holy Grail between King Arthur and the anarcho-syndicalist filth farmers ends with Arthur calling Dennis a “bloody peasant.” Dennis then declares: Oh, what a giveaway. Did you here that, did you here that, eh? A raft of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 12, 2019 | Culture, Opinion
America’s history can be viewed as a long and continuing stream of cultural shifts. Her inception itself was a radical departure from the widely-established forms of governance the colonists knew and lived under, towards one that was more egalitarian,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 27, 2019 | Economics, Environment, Health, Opinion, Politics
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell pulled a fun little prank on the Democrats yesterday, by scheduling a vote on their Green New Deal. Take a moment and read or skim the text. It’s not that long. I’ll call attention to three bits. First, the opening...
by Peter Venetoklis | Mar 7, 2019 | Opinion, Politics
Regular readers of this blog will recall that I’ve written of a grievance hierarchy, where competing identity groups sort themselves (or are sorted by the progressive taste-makers) into a sort of dog-pile, with those on top getting more protection and deference...
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