Do You Cilantro?

by | Jun 20, 2019 | Culture, Opinion

Some of my blog-spirations (if I dare elevate them to that level of sagacity) come from seemingly disconnected things that somehow connect themselves inside the labyrinths of my brain. One such occurred yesterday, where several disparate topics came into confluence. A...

Selling Schooling

by | May 11, 2019 | Education, Politics

Question: What do you get when you have a clown car’s quantity of Presidential aspirants under the Democratic Party banner? Answer: A cavalcade of giveaway and spending promises. Kamala Harris, perhaps feeling left out in the cold by the loss of her front-runner...

Our Rat Culture

by | May 4, 2019 | Culture, Opinion

Or… The Rise of the Hall Monitors Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt did Joe Rogan’s podcast back in January, and a snippet from that airing was helpfully offered to me by Youtube this morning. The topic of that moment was the “when” of the...

Don’t You Dare Succeed

by | Apr 26, 2019 | Culture, Opinion, Politics

The effort to change the way New York City’s elite public high schools admit students provides us not only with a window into the progressive’s world view, but also with some insight as to the demands placed on our culture’s “oppressed”...

Free College and Free Speech

by | Apr 16, 2019 | Culture, Education, Politics

The interruption of a stand-up comic’s performance by event organizers at Columbia University late last year served, obviously, as a reminder that college campuses remain places of intolerance and hostility to anything resembling diversity of thought. Nimesh...