Golden Let-Downs
There's something ironically reminiscent of the Obama years, in the expressions of outrage and betrayal by formerly loyal supporters. We should not be too hard on them -- or on…
English professor Duke Pesta has been a vocal and high-profile opponent of the Common Core standards He is shown Thursday, April 3, 2014 in his office at UW-Oshkosh in Oshkosh, Wis. Mark Hoffman/MHOFFMAN@JOURNALSENTINEL.COM
The Autodidact’s Apology
In the course of my research into the origins of the problems of higher education, and of education itself, I have discovered people far older, wiser, more experienced, and more…
The Weakness of Purity
Ethnonationalism is on the return. Classical liberals are rediscovering who they really are. Progressives are progressing... towards what? Conservatives know; as a rule, progressives do not. But they are progressing…
Alt-Right, Alt-White, Alt-Lite
Sargon of Akkad has already accurately reported that the Alt Right is not an ideology, but an idea space, containing a variety of many different, and even incompatible views. But it…
Audacity’s Price
In the world of annoying and meaningless titles, it is hard to beat Obama's semi-autobiographical book The Audacity of Hope. Hope is well and good, but in a world of social…
Fascism and Antifascism
Friday the 20th marked the second time in about a year in which I nearly went to a political event, and got diverted by some personal obligation... only to find…
The Year of Race Realism
Equality had a nice run. For something that has never, ever existed in all of human history, its pursuit was an extraordinarily interesting phenomenon in political philosophy. I will not…
Sex and the Soul
I posted this picture from Bellevue College on facebook a while back as a sarcastic example of "tax-dollars well-spent." But there are many ways that tax-dollars are misused, particularly in…
On Wolves, Sheep, and Sheepdogs
Fool, prate not to me about covenants! There can be no covenants between men and lions, wolves and lambs can never be of one mind, but hate each other through…
#Dadbod is Poison
In case you hadn't heard, "Dad bod" is the word. Major publications like Slate, the Atlantic, GQ, and Business Insider have all had their say on the matter in the last…