Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
Welcome, all, on this date of 19 Oct. 2021. On this day in: 1781 A.D. — Britain’s Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at the Siege of Yorktown, a decisive event that marked the beginning of the end of the Revolutionary War, though
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The verdict against Oberlin is emblematic, not just of a town versus gown schism, but of a much larger schism between urban America and the rest of us. As you all know, a jury in Oberlin, Ohio, concluded that Oberlin College and one of its deans had behaved very badly
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Yesterday we visited the course catalog for Macalester, in the upper Midwest (St. Paul, Minnesota, to be precise). Today, we head West to Oberlin, in Ohio, yet another college that doesn’t offer either American History or American Studies classes. Instead, for those interested in studying their own country, Oberlin offers “Comparative
Continue readingYou remember what happened when Christina Hoff Sommers went to Oberlin and Georgetown, don’t you? If you don’t, these pictures, all showing these schools’ special snowflakes, will refresh your recollection: Now, a group purporting to be the Oberlin College choir has uploaded its response. It is brilliant:
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