A bracing and sobering read by @rpondiscio via @TheFP on today’s classroom controversies. The upshot: What happens in classrooms is a black box… and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future. https://www.thefp.com/p/how-public-schools-became-ideological-boot-camps @AEIeducation
If, and I hope it is soon, @DouglasKMurray is a guest on my program I will be emphasizing my standard disclaimer: “It’s an interview, not a debate.” As with the late Christopher Hitchens three score plus interviews, you don’t really want to debate Murray. You want to hear what he…
"My daughters have grown up without a father because of an ideology that Western politicians now often refuse to name."
Carine Azzopardi is heroic and I am proud to publish her in @thefp:
https://www.thefp.com/p/islamism-killed-partner-carine-azzopardi
Islamism Killed My Partner. Why Won’t the West Fight It?
My daughters have grown up without a father because of an ideology that Western politicians now often refuse to name.
www.thefp.com
The Free Press has quietly become something impressive. They are putting out amazing work over there.
https://www.thefp.com/p/islamism-killed-partner-carine-azzopardi
“The eagerness to defend Islamists in the U.S. is especially shocking… Can America’s memory really be so short?”
@CarineAzzopardi on how using the term “Islamaphobia” to silence critics ended up enabling terrorist violence: https://thefp.pub/3KQnvZ7
"A century after General Granger marched into Galveston Bay with those Union soldiers, I was growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, which was then the most segregated city in the country. My father couldn’t vote with reliability. We couldn’t go to the movie theater, sit at the lunch…
Having intergenerational office friendships is so important. Peter tells me about things all the time like American democracy and foreign policy and the Soviet Union and once a year or so he'll ask me something like "what does edgelord mean" and I repay the favor.
.@FreeBeacon is on a roll...
https://freebeacon.com/democrats/mackenzie-scott-gives-millions-to-philly-nonprofit-tied-to-anti-israel-penn-encampment/
MacKenzie Scott Gives Millions to Philly Nonprofit Tied to Anti-Israel Penn Encampment
MacKenzie Scott, the ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, awarded a $2 million grant to a Philadelphia-based commun...
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“Enlightenment values are always pushing uphill and have a natural tendency to slide back.”
@SAPinker on how values like democracy and free speech run counter to human nature—and why protecting them is necessary for global well-being. https://thefp.pub/4cqfO7E