Bookworm Beat 4/27/24: the academia run amok meme edition
We here at the Bookworm Room always knew what was being planted in academia, but even we didn’t know just how ugly that crop would be.
Continue readingConservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
We here at the Bookworm Room always knew what was being planted in academia, but even we didn’t know just how ugly that crop would be.
Continue readingThis is an everything and the kitchen sink edition: Slavery, Trump, so-called transgenderism, leftists’ children, children on prescription drugs, pedophiles, reparations, politicians, and colleges!
Continue readingThe Wuhan virus has sped up existing processes, such as hastening inevitable deaths, changing the business world, and exposing the left. You’ve probably read that 94% of Wuhan virus deaths happened to people who already had compromised health, whether from extreme age or diseases that were already putting stress on
Continue readingTom Cotton reminds us that too many corporations are brutally pro-abortion — a sickness that begins in America’s institutions of higher indoctrination. I learned at Ace of Spades that Sen. Tom Cotton (R. Arkansas) delivered a powerful speech today about the way in which corporations are using their wealth and
Continue readingEven as Paris burns, America’s media and other Democrat establishments demand that America institute the socialist policies that are destroying Europe. Paris burns — and the people call for Trump. The mainstream media truly believes in global leadership. Trump’s desire to be America’s, rather than following in his predecessor’s footsteps
Continue readingEdward Blum understands America’s promise and, to that end, he is fighting hard against academia’s obsession with race, sex, and sexual orientation. One of my Little Bookworms is applying for college. Since this Little Bookworm is open-minded about majors, school size, and geographic location, we’re applying to a lot of
Continue readingIf you want to know why identity groups support Democrats even when doing so is counter to their interests, there’s one reason, and one reason alone…. Practically since the day I started blogging, at which time I revealed myself to be a politically conservative Jew, I’ve regularly been asked the
Continue readingCharlie Kirk, a leader challenging the monolithic Leftism on college campuses, explains how the focus on superficial diversity hides cultist programming. Last fall, I had the pleasure of hearing a talk by Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA. I wrote about it here. Unlike many in the audience, I
Continue readingI haven’t forgotten that tomorrow is Memorial Day but today is still just another Sunday — laundry, bills, and blogging. The first two are done, so it’s blogging time. America’s real class divide. I had a very interesting lunch the other day with Thomas Lifson (founder of American Thinker) and
Continue readingThe other night, I attended a college fair with my high schooler. It featured representatives from perhaps 100 different colleges, each of them standing behind their particular space at row upon row of tables. Hundreds of teenagers and their parents milled about, approaching one or another table to get the
Continue readingUniversities have long been the incubators of climate change hysteria. They teach anthropogenic climate change there with the same certainty that they teach accounting principles. There is no room for debate. Students graduate as true believers. But what happens when the students discover that their teachers are hypocrites? They go
Continue readingCalifornia used to have the finest public education system in America. It wasn’t lack of funding that killed it; it was Leftist corruption and insanity. Don’t believe me? Read these two articles. From Bruce Kesler: Important Report On The Sinkhole That Is Higher Education From Donald Douglas: California State Colleges
Continue readingMy husband and I frequently debate the virtue of sending our children off to a costly four year university (assuming, of course, that they are admitted). I’m agin’ it, because I think it’s insane to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars so that ones child can listen to this type
Continue readingI’ve got a project, and pretty much exhausted myself writing this morning’s post (too much thinking, dammit!), so I’ll just give you links to some stories that caught my eye today. 1. John Hawkin’s writes about five top conservative female bloggers and discusses how they face different challenges from their
Continue readingIf you haven’t already read Heather MacDonald’s debunking of the “Rape Epidemic” on college campuses, you must. The whole article is replete with gems such as this one: The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable
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