by Peter Venetoklis | Apr 18, 2021 | Culture, Education
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article is a follow-up to We Expect Less Of You, wherein I opine on a university’s decision to de-emphasize good grammar and spelling. My father had an employee, decades back, who worked crazy hours at his restaurant. The man, whose...
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 | 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,...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Feb 18, 2021 | Opinion, Politics
The fallout from the Capitol riot continues to expand, and we are now being told that the entirety of the Trump-voting populace should be labeled “insurrectionist.” With such a label comes, of course, the application of tools the government has at hand in...
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