In 1996, Californians voted to ban race and gender preferences in government and education. Ten years later, the chancellor of the state-funded University of California at Berkeley, Robert Birgeneau, announced a new vice chancellor for equity and inclusion, charged with making Berkeley more “inclusive” and “less hostile” to “underrepresented minority . . . groups.”
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Some of you may think that America is doing great. You tell yourself the economy is booming and we’re largely at peace. But if that’s your stupid opinion, it’s only because you’ve been paying attention to real life instead of reading the news. In the news, things are absolutely awful.
Read More...The resistance to Donald Trump was warring on all fronts last week. Democratic senators vied with pop-up protestors in the U.S. Senate gallery to disrupt and, if possible, to derail the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) played Spartacus, but could not even get the script right as he claimed to be bravely releasing classified information that was already declassified. I cannot remember another example of a senator who wanted to break the law but could not figure out how to do it
Read More...The Donald Trump of Bob Woodward’s book is the Trump of the Helsinki press conference with Vladimir Putin: ill-prepared, bombastic and overconfident.
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Hollywood’s own Inconvenient Truth“They considered it so important that they went to the trouble of trying to erase it from our national consciousness.”
Read More...Most Americans believe that politics and law are separate entities. This was the position of Aristotle, who treated politics as a study in itself, and Hugo Grotius, the eminent Dutch scholar of the seventeenth century who developed the theory of international law. Not all thinkers have been so careful to distinguish the two subjects.
Read More...Last year, my wife and I visited Italy for the first time. In Rome, we arranged for a guide to take us through the Vatican. I envisioned an elderly gentleman, but our guide turned out to be an attractive young woman who, I soon decided, was a practicing Catholic.
Read More...WASHINGTON — Former President Jimmy Carter lives in a two-bedroom ranch house in Plains, Georgia, assessed at $167,000, the Washington Post recently reported. And unlike former Presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, he chose not to join corporate boards or deliver six-figure speeches because he didn’t want to “capitalize financially on being in the White House.”
Read More...Facebook’s breathtaking economic richess were built on free expression. Still, in seemingly endless bouts of self-infantilization, Facebook continues to literally run and grovel to the Party to be let into the safe space mega-market while the Party taunts them that it would “damage the national interests of China” while simultaneously waving fat stacks of advertising cash.
Read More...I saw a bumper-sticker on an expensive car in an upscale shopping area, which read: “Female Asian Driver: Good Luck Everybody Else.”
Read More...PA CASE: Justice Thomas Dissents
