Education

The New Reactionaries

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Our New Regressivism About fifteen years ago, many liberals began to self-identify as progressives — partly because of the implosion of the Great Society and the Reagan reaction that had tarnished the liberal brand and left it as something akin to “permissive” or “naïve,” partly because “progressive” was supposedly […]

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Elizabeth Warren and the Frauds of Diversity

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine For anyone familiar with the American university and its gospel of multicultural diversity, the revelation that Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren exploited her 1/32 Cherokee ancestry to pass as a minority is a dog-bites-man story. Share This

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The Historical Reality of the Muslim Conquests

by Raymond Ibrahim Jihad Watch Because it is now almost axiomatic for American school textbooks to whitewash all things Islamic (see here for example), it may be instructive to examine one of those aspects that are regularly distorted: the Muslim conquests. Share This

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Civilization in Reverse

by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services In Greek mythology, the prophetess Cassandra was doomed both to tell the truth and to be ignored. Our modern version is a bankrupt Greece that we seem to discount. Share This

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The No News Stories of 2011

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media The German Stereotype There were lots of stories that left a lot unsaid. The Germany/EU debt imbroglio was one of them. Share This

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Ancient Virtues and Modern Sins

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Candor Aside from courage — the essential trait without which, as the ancients insisted, all other virtues are impossible — candor is now the most appreciated. Share This

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The Fannie and Freddie University

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media It’s More than Just PC The traditionalist critique of the university — I made it myself over thirteen years ago in the co-authored Who Killed Homer? — was that somewhere around the time of the Vietnam War, higher education changed radically for the worse. Share This

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The True Significance of Herman Cain’s Sexual Harassment Troubles

by Bruce S. Thornton FrontPage Magazine We can’t say much about the veracity of the sexual harassment complaints leveled against Herman Cain 15 years ago, given the lack of specific detail or even the names of the accusers. Share This

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Liberal Indulgences

by Victor Davis Hanson PJ Media Medieval Liberalism Recently I saw some TV clips from MSNBC and CNN, one critiquing Herman Cain, the other an interview with Michael Moore. Share This

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