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Science is NOT a social construct
Science is NOT a social construct. When dealing with the Woke—that is, devotees of the ideology outlined in Critical Social...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 22, 20233 min read
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WSJ: We Now Need College Courses to Teach Young Adults How to Make Small Talk
November 20, 2023. Jana Mathews, a professor of Medieval literature at Rollins College, checks the bathrooms to coax out students hiding...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 20, 20232 min read
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The moral case for fossil fuels
NOTE: There is no small irony in the continuing abuse of the English anguage, when Alex Epstein speaks of the power and potential threat...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 20, 20236 min read
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Un-woke Matthew
"After a long timethe master of those servants came backand settled accounts with them.The one who had received five talents came...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 19, 20232 min read
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Free speech on campus? Not likely
A Free-Speech Fix for Our Divided Campuses Wall Street Journal Suzanne Nossel Nov. 17, 2023 Clashes over the Israel-Hamas war show that,...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 17, 20232 min read
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Biden delusion
March 3, 2022. Another fine analysis of this week's inexplicable State of the Union promises and predictions by Francis Merton. I can’t...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 15, 20234 min read
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What this country really needs...
A well-worn quip from my youth was, "What this country needs is a good five-cent cigar!' Even then I took this as a wry attempt to...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 15, 20234 min read
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Biden abortion insanity: Its good for the economy
Abortion is good for the economy because it increases labor participation rate. Right. With states and voters now free to decide abortion...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 14, 20231 min read
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The importance of Thomas Sowell
Jason Reilly does a marvelous job of expelling the importance of Thomas Sowell in today's culture wars, with his writings on history,...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 14, 20234 min read
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Looking for integrity (in all the wrong places) in climate "science"
Professor William Happer on integrity in climate science on Sky News Australia - 17 September 2023 https://youtu.be/oQyvUJ1k9_M?si=FTC6DW...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 13, 20231 min read
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Tuition reset! Free graduate degree! Come and get it while we're still here!
From Inside Higher Ed, 6 November 2023: Can Free Graduate Tuition Boost Undergrad Enrollment? Starting next year, Spring Hill College...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 13, 20232 min read
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Culling the herd
And the cuts just keep on coming, again, from The Chronicle of (the Demise of) Higher Education: "Battered by market headwinds and...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 13, 20232 min read
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Cuts catch up with narcisstic colleges
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, Monday 13 November 2023: Here are the latest cuts, both definite and proposed, from the past...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 13, 20233 min read
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Poverty, education and teenage girl births
A former Jesuit started this conversation and analysis by sending me a link to a December 31, 2022 New York Times article, noting the...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 12, 20233 min read
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A short history
Although this only covers the last hundred years of the region, the story is pretty clear. A short history of the Arab-Israeli conflict...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 10, 20233 min read
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Men without work: The death of a cherished institution
September 17, 2022 Freddy Gray speaks to Nicholas Eberstadt, author of Men Without Work, about why, despite good employment figures,...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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Easy for you to say: To the elites on mass immigration
June 20, 2022 Source: Maggie's Farm (September 11, 2015). Mass multicultural immigration is a highly disruptive, if not destructive,...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20232 min read
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What is the American Dream?
April 28, 2022 Here is one take on the American Dream, from Maggie's Farm. The opening paragraphs: I recently took a poll about whether...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20233 min read
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A litany against the madness from Common Sense
July 7, 2022 From Common Sense. Here is just some of the nonsense the world tolerates -- if not promotes -- today, as promulgated by the...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20233 min read
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The revolt of the French working class
April 18, 2022 Liberté, égalité, fraternité! The working people of France appear to be rejecting Macron and progressive topics, e.g.,...

Peter Lorenzi
Nov 6, 20233 min read
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