Where did the liberty go? Wall Street Journal September 9, 2023 Tunku Varadarajan’s Weekend Interview with the Moms for Liberty leaders...

Shellenberger Disinformation video (1:03:21; 2023)

https://www.wsj.com/articles/indoctrination-has-no-place-in-education-desantis-rufo-liberal-free-debate-civics-e387a608 Indoctrination...

College is a gamble (September 2023) Americans have soured on the value of a college education, writes Paul Tough in the New York Times...

September 2, 2023 Since Labor Day 2021, unfilled nonfarm positions have averaged over 11 million a month. For every unemployed person in...

August 22, 2023. NOTE: 98% of the following was written in 2015-16, during my final sabbatical from teaching, written as part of a...

In response to a foolish article, accusing Republicans of being pigheaded, stubborn and unable to read the crowd, I crafted the...

Some clips from my collection of fifty curated files for August 2023, as of August 22. Rich men north of Richmond The raw honesty of a...

Usually the Spectator applies critical thinking -- with conclusions that I don't always accept as correct -- but in this case,...

It seems so long ago but it wasn't. I was raised on steel. I went to the mill with my dad when I was a teen. All y dad's friends were...

Random thoughts from the past two months. Most Americans think that this country is a democracy, as in "Trump is destroying our...

First, let's get the words straight. It's the "Democrat" party, not the "Democratic" or "democratic" party, although to most of the...

Eighty-seven percent of students-say-college-is-too-difficult-but-refuse-to-study-more. While 87 percent of students said that college is...

April 6, 2023 After a long silence, feeling moved to add some musings to this blog/journal/diary. College craziness persists. Stanford,...

March 1, 2023. How many Covid caused "excess deaths" have there been in these past three years? Not as many as you have been led to...

An interesting, seemingly well-intentioned idea -- a college dedicated to intellectual/political diversity at the University of North...

A covering of snow, clear skies and a fun moon light up the winter night in Harrison.

The hyper-hypocritical unelected leaders of the elite (watch John Kerry admire himself here) oligarchy meet and tell each other how...

This guy thinks so, when he claims, "The Cost of School Vouchers? Sky-High Inflation; It’s Economics 101: costs increase when the...

Fast train from Madrid to Valencia on Saturday 26 November, visited the old market, the city centre, and the glorious beach. The beach...