by Peter Venetoklis | Jan 26, 2021 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
While looking for the exact wording of a Stalin quote, I found this nugget on a Wikipedia page: [E]specially in Stalin’s Soviet Union, Mao’s China and Pol Pot’s Cambodia, a fanatical certainty that socialism could be made to work motivated communist...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 24, 2020 | Education, Opinion, Politics
Robby Soave, a senior editor at the libertarian Reason.com, offered us a ‘lemonade’ opportunity yesterday, by suggesting we “defund” public schools if the teachers’ unions decide to seize their moment and ensure even less work for their...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 23, 2020 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
Six weeks ago, after roughly a week of clashes between protestors rallied by George Floyd’s killing and Seattle police, a six-block section of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood was ‘occupied’ and declared the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jul 21, 2020 | Culture, Education
One fine fellow over at the New York Times has posited that symphony orchestras need to be more diverse, apparently because the adoption of “blind” auditions, intended to eliminate racial and gender bias, haven’t produced an outcome they deem...
by Peter Venetoklis | Jun 17, 2020 | Culture, Education, Opinion, Politics
The BLM movement, which has emerged as the “voice” of the George Floyd protests, has chosen to embrace the mantra “Defund The Police” as its remedy to the problems and factors that have resulted in unjustified killings of civilians by law...
by Peter Venetoklis | May 7, 2020 | Culture, Education, Health, Opinion
Fond as I am of coining fun or memorable phrases, and amused as I am by the social justice Left’s language gymnastics, I’ve developed a tendency to note the really good ones, of both the pithy and roll-your-eyes sort. Among my favorites of the pithy sort...
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