by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 23, 2016 | Culture, Education, Opinion
This essay’s title, so hackneyed and obvious that it belongs on the cover of the New York Post, is a blunt assessment of the latest bit of garbage generated by one of the nation’s elite universities. It seems that Princeton University, one eighth of the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 22, 2016 | Culture, Politics
As I watched American athletes win gold in both the men’s and women’s 4×400 meter relay races the other night, and as I saw them celebrate by draping American flags over their shoulders and pose for group photos while holding them proudly aloft, I...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 19, 2016 | Culture
As they have done with so many other words, the perpetually aggrieved have muddied the word “tolerance” and turned it into a term that agitates and divides. That sad realization came to me as I was walking around the concessions courtyard of the Nikon...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 12, 2016 | Culture, Immigration, Opinion
The civil war in Syria and the constant flux in the territory across Syria, Iraq and Turkey that is controlled by ISIS have gone on long enough to suggest that the “known” borders of those nations are destined for the dustbin of history. This new reality...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 2, 2016 | Education, Health, Politics
Political satirist P. J. O’Rourke famously quipped: If you think health care is expensive now, wait until … it’s free. He first offered this observation way back in May, 1993, when then-First Lady Hillary Clinton was leading an effort to overhaul health...
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