Conservatives deal with facts and reach conclusions; liberals have conclusions and sell them as facts.
By The Closet Conservative This one is a winner… by all accounts of what makes a perfect movie, this one just about does it. Ford vs Ferrari packs into two and a half hours loads of historical information (certainly Hollywoodized up in many instances – I’m sure), drama, a
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HBO is in trouble for producing “Confederate,” an alternate history in which the South won the war. The irony is that HBO and its foes are both wrong. (Only half of this essay was posted initially. My mistake. I have added the second half below the line. My apologies. [Bookworm
Continue readingTo me, history is what was. It’s the past that’s been and gone forever. To people on the Left, however, history is the future that they shape, which they presume their Leftist scholars will later enshrine in propagandistic history books. I thought of that peculiar viewpoint last night when watching
Continue reading(I made the following comments in this morning’s newsletter, and a friend suggested that they’re good enough to be in a stand-alone post. Incidentally, if you’re interested in getting the reasonably daily Bookworm Room newsletter, you can sign up here.) I’ve been working with some students helping them to review
Continue readingWhew! That was a long drive home. We got caught in traffic jams caused by two accidents, so we got to spend an extra couple of hours in the car. Still, better to sit around because of an accident than to be in an accident. I’ve done both and prefer
Continue readingAs I’ve already noted in this blog, the Left’s obsession with history doesn’t go as far as considering whether it’s good history or bad history. In a superb article, Abe Greenwald makes precisely the same point: For amid the symbolic fanfare of giant gavels and the tactical gravitas of deployed
Continue readingYou’ve got to see this one. It’s so right — and it really resonates with me because I work so hard educating and inoculating my children against the omnipresent Leftist pop culture. I think the video also works for me because, as a history major who has always rejected Marxist
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