7th April 2021
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6th April 2021
Steven Hayward at PowerLine.
If you have a Wall Street Journal subscription, don’t miss today’s Gerard Baker column, “The C-Suite Converts to the New Political Religion.” If you don’t have a subscription, here’s the key part:
The modern secularists who deride the hagridden mysticism of traditional religion are now the most devoted congregants in the First Church of Antiracism. Penitents line up to be shriven for their white privilege, bending the knee before the altar of justice and equity. They present pendants of the martyred St. George of Minneapolis for blessing from Hollywood prelates and Ivy League divines, solemnly chanting canticles from the Black Lives Matter breviary.
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5th April 2021
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4th April 2021
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3rd April 2021
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2nd April 2021
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2nd April 2021
Steven Hayward at PowerLine.
I’ve had a theory for a while now, for which there is some suggestive empirical survey data, that the left began to go nuts a couple years before Trump rode down the escalator in 2015 and caused full-blown leftist insanity. The theory, first suggested to me by Charles Murray actually, is that the activist left was frustrated and angry by around 2014 that President Obama was such a huge disappointment. He was the “lightworker,” almost literally the second coming of Jesus. And from the point of view of the left, what did he actually deliver? A crappy health care plan is about it.
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1st April 2021
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1st April 2021
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Say what you want about the sickness of cancel culture, it can be great for business. Nothing rallies paying readers to a writer quite like the news that somebody wants him or her silenced.
Nothing, that is, apart being called ‘odd’ by the New York Times. On Monday, the paper produced an article about Harper’s magazine by its ultra-successful media columnist Ben Smith. Under the headline, ‘Inside America’s Most Interesting Magazine, and Media’s Oddest Workplace’, Smith was generous about Harper’s but quite rude about its president, John R. MacArthur, whom he made out to be an eccentrically dressed crank.
The result? Harper’s had its best week ever for subscriptions.
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31st March 2021
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30th March 2021
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28th March 2021
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27th March 2021
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26th March 2021
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25th March 2021
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24th March 2021
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24th March 2021
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What’s going on over at Reddit? The popular chatroom, which bills itself as ‘the front page of the internet’, has been accused of blocking Spectator articles. Earlier this week, the most popular UK politics page was suspended from public view and users who posted a link to a Spectator article were blocked.
The article in question mentions one Aimee Challenor, a former ‘rising star’ of the British Green party and transgender activist, who left the party in disgrace after she appointed her father — a violent paedophile — as her election agent.
According to the moderators on the Reddit group r/UKPolitics, Aimee has since been hired by the tech firm, which is now zealously blocking content about her. One Redditor who posted a Spectator article containing a brief mention of Challenor found themselves mysteriously ‘suspended’ from Reddit.
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23rd March 2021
John Hinderaker at PowerLine.
The New York Times, which these days is the Democratic Party’s goon squad, is trying to drive the Babylon Bee out of existence. The Bee hilariously mocks liberalism, and if there is anything liberals can’t tolerate it is humor. So the Times is trying to get social media sites to shut the Bee down.
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22nd March 2021
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21st March 2021
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20th March 2021
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19th March 2021
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18th March 2021
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17th March 2021
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One of the odd-seeming aspects of progressive cancel culture is that many of the figures targeted by mobs aren’t especially conservative in their views. Rather, the victims tend to be heterodox liberals who simply offer a dissenting opinion on one or more compartmentalized issues—since these liberal targets tend to operate in left-leaning professional and social milieus through which a mob can exercise leverage and demand concessions. There are numerous popular writers and broadcasters who promote deeply conservative themes without attracting any notice from cancel mobs—even as lifelong leftists within such niche genres as Young Adult fiction, LGBT theatre, and knitting-trade journalism are excommunicated on the basis of minor verbal infractions.
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16th March 2021
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Actress and former MMA fighter Gina Carano was fired from her role as Cara Dune in Disney+’s The Mandalorian series for not being a liberal back in Feb. Next month an episode Running Wild with Bear Grylls was set to air on National Geographic (note that NG is owned by Disney) with Carano as a guest but it appears Disney recently chose to shelve that, too.
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15th March 2021
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14th March 2021
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13th March 2021
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12th March 2021
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Academia has become a closed system, a moral community defined by a set of sacred progressive values. The surge of no-platformings which took off in America in 2015 and hit Britain in 2018–19, or the fivefold jump in the rate of cancelling American academics which took place in 2019, present merely the tip of an iceberg of self-censorship and conformity. In this essay, I present extensive new survey data on the scale of the problem in the US, Canada, and Britain from my new report for the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology entitled “Academic Freedom in Crisis: Punishment, Political Discrimination, and Self-Censorship.” This leads, at the end, into a discussion of policy solutions, where I argue that only government intervention can break the spiral of conformity gripping the contemporary university. The British government’s recent policy white paper on academic freedom, which adopted most of the recommendations of my previous co-authored report, “Academic Freedom in the UK,” is a blueprint that other jurisdictions are invited to follow. My current report represents an expansion of the UK report to encompass North America, where the situation is arguably even more pressing.
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12th March 2021
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12th March 2021
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Ex-New York Times journalist Bari Weiss has written a fascinating piece for City Journalabout the trials and tribulations of white, upper-middle-class parents at the country’s most exclusive private schools. Hard to work up much sympathy for them, you might think, but the reason for their current difficulties is interesting: the wholesale capture of these elite educational institutions by the woke cult.
Brentwood, a school that costs $45,630 a year, made headlines a few weeks back when it held racially segregated ‘dialogue and community-building sessions.’ But when I speak with a parent of a middle-school student there, they want to talk about their child’s English curriculum. ‘They replaced all the books with no input or even informing the parents.’ The curriculum no longer features classics such as The Scarlet Letter, Little Women, To Kill a Mockingbird and Lord of the Flies. New books include: Stamped, Dear Martin, Dear Justyce and Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass.
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11th March 2021
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11th March 2021
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Universities have traditionally played an important role in preparing young people for a life outside academia. These days, though, it appears that many institutions are more interested in lecturing their academics than teaching students — especially when it comes to using the right kind of language.
That perhaps explains why the University of Manchester in England released on Wednesday a new ‘Guide to inclusive language’ for its staff, made by its ‘equality, diversity and inclusion team’. The guide aims to tell those working at the university ‘how to use inclusive language to avoid biases, slang or expressions that can exclude certain groups’ and has been added to the uni’s house style page, which means academics will be told to follow the guidance when writing for the university.
And while you might hope that one of Britain’s red-brick institutions treats its staff like adults, instead it appears the university has taken a rather more hostile approach to the use of language on campus.
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11th March 2021
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More like Disney minus.
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11th March 2021
Steve Sailer.
The Woke are canceling ever more of the great minds of English history….
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11th March 2021
Steven Hayward at PowerLine.
I was sure that, after canceling Dr. Seuss last week, this week would cancel Peanuts. Do they need a reason? Of course not.
But instead, it seems the left wants to cancel . . . Adam Smith. The only question is, what took them so long….
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10th March 2021
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9th March 2021
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8th March 2021
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7th March 2021
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6th March 2021
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5th March 2021
Scott Johnson at PowerLine.
All things considered, Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis looks to be the most successful governor in the United States. The Florida contingent of the garbage media is therefore determined to destroy him one way or another.
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4th March 2021
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3rd March 2021
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2nd March 2021
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2nd March 2021
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The New York Times’ lead pandemic reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. got forced out of his 45-year-career over, more or less, the high crime of being an Old White Man With a Good Job Who Acts Like He Deserves It.
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