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I can’t remember how I found this article at the American Institute for Economic Research (if a reader told me, apologies for forgetting); I suspect it’s a conservative site but I’m not going to check. I did check on the author of the piece, Phillip Magness, who is an economic historian and Education director at … Continue reading More infighting among academics about the 1619 Project
A friend of mine who’s followed the New York Times‘s 1619 Project sent me a link to an article that you can access by clicking on the screenshot below. It’s in the Catalyst Journal, and my friend adds “don’t confuse it with Catalyst Magazine, which is pure woo!!” First, though, be aware that Catalyst seems … Continue reading Guest post: A scholarly critique of the 1619 Project finds many omissions and distortions
You’ll know Bret Stephens as a conservative columnist for the New York Times. He also got his undergraduate degree at the University of Chicago in 1995 and later won a Pulitzer Prize for political commentary. Because of his journalism and association with the University, he was invited to deliver yesterday’s University Class Day speech, an … Continue reading A “progressive” coalition goes after Bret Stephens as our Class Day Speaker; he delivers an excellent address anyway
It’s Monday, March 12, 2023, Chicken Noodle Soup Day (much better with matzo balls). If you’re in America and haven’t moved your clock forward an hour, please do so now: It’s also the Start of Daylight Savings Time, so be sure you set your clocks forward an hour. If you didn’t do it last … Continue reading Sunday: Hili dialogue
As you probably know, the 1619 Project has produced a book (below), which is an expansion and supplementation of the original essays in the New York Times magazine. It’s selling like hotcakes, too: #4 on Amazon. Click on the image below to go to the Amazon site: I haven’t read it yet, and am not … Continue reading Competing and divergent reviews by The Washington Post and the NYT of the 1619 Project book
This isn’t a huge kerfuffle, because the morons espousing the thesis in the title aren’t numerous. And the kerfuffle was popularized by the “scandal site” TMZ. Nevertheless, it shows how crazily woke some people are. Here’s the TMZ tweet which directs you to a clickbait-y article based entirely on tweets. (What would journalism do without … Continue reading Anne Frank had white privilege?
I’ve spent the last two hours watching—well, not really watching, but using it as background noise—the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson. (I believe you can watch them live at the YouTube link below.) What a waste of time! Right now I’ve been listening to the odious Ted Cruz go after … Continue reading The Supreme Court hearings: shoot me now!
I usually get bored listening to one person talk for an hour on video, but I found this interview of John McWhorter by Reason (a libertarian site) absorbing and thought-provoking. If you listen to the whole 65-minute interview, you’ll hear pretty much the entire panoply of McWhorter’s views on race, which are also in his … Continue reading Reason interviews John McWhorter
JAC: Greg has another installment in his continuing series on the New York Times’s 1619 project. Readers please note that this is Greg’s piece, not mine. ______________________ by Greg Mayer As they have since it was published last year, the folks at the World Socialist Website (WSWS) continue to lead in the critique of the … Continue reading The annals of the 1619 debacle at the New York Times
The title of this piece came from Greg Mayer, who was about to write a post on this same subject when he saw my draft. So, with permission, I’ve stolen his title, which was better than mine. And I agree with it. Bret Stephens knew what he was doing when he called out the 1619 … Continue reading Bret Stephens is wrong about most things, but he is very brave
