by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 27, 2021 | Culture, Opinion, Politics
A couple decades back, I briefly dated a British woman who, in a political conversation whose specific subject is lost to memory, voiced the phrase: Because we’re smarter than they are. That, as opposed to the particulars of our discussion, seared itself in my...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
Day in and day out, I’m informed that America’s leftists (they are not liberals, and I shall no longer soil that word by association) are not Marxist, or communists, or old-school socialists, or even fascists. Day in and day out, I’m scolded about...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 22, 2021 | Culture, Economics, Education, Election, Immigration, Opinion, Politics
My latest version of Internet “sport” consists of skimming social media comments sections under any article even vaguely skeptical of Critical Race Theory, to find the morons (with apologies to actual morons) who rush to obnoxiously inform all us...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 20, 2021 | Culture, Opinion
I like Jordan Peterson. Those four words, in and of themselves, are sufficient to induce some on the Left to call me a long stream of obscenities and nasty names, derogatory (and false) labels, and dismiss me as an irredeemable, deplorable, a bitter clinger, a racist....
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 19, 2021 | Culture, Health, Opinion, Politics
Columnist Matt Taibbi, in a recent newsletter, lamented that columnists’ target audience has shifted from placid Sunday morning paper perusers to what he dubbed “rage addicts.” His comment was, in the end, self-deprecating and self-aware, but the...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 16, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
The educational hubbub of our time is the debate over teaching Critical Race Theory in our schools. Teachers’ unions, the Biden administration, and many progressive politicians have advocated its inclusion in the core curriculum, and some districts have already...
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