Podcast #173: Batya Ungar-Sargon on the Growing Gulf Between Ordinary Americans and the Progressive Journalists Who Cover Them
The culture war and the fight over liberal media bias.
The culture war and the fight over liberal media bias.
Misinformation results from the toxic combination of these two defining features, a lack of proximity to the Territory, and viewing the world through the lens of oppression.
Education was divided along confessional lines into Catholic and Protestant school systems; for these purposes, Jews were designated Protestant.
The Private School Boy is an object of endless horror and fascination. Every few years, the media outrage cycle will crest towards another scandal—a leaked video of a sexist chant, allegations of sexual misconduct or orgiastic excess—and the discourse machine will dissect the sexual mores of elite teenagers
The blood shed for this right matters little to certain factions of the contemporary Left.
The danger—or opportunity, depending on your view—is that two radical candidates like Mélenchon and Zemmour win the first round.
Political apologies are quickly forgotten.
Implementation of newly popular equity policies will hinder the learning of many students before those policies are weakened or reversed.
Frank Sinatra's “Come Fly With Me” was the best-selling album in the United States for five weeks in 1958, but the irony of its popularity (or, perhaps, the source of its aspirational appeal) is that practically none of us could take up the offer to "glide, starry-eyed&
Sometimes, what we are taught, and then either by mistake or by force, integrate into our thinking, is contrary to the conditions of human life.
Our society cannot and will not survive a polity that permits armed children to walk the streets and kill with impunity.
A true and sincere confession of one’s actual sins and cruelties is a courageous act that leaves one vulnerable and exposed.
But let’s remain clear in our minds what they really stand for, because sometimes the enemy of your enemy turns out, in the long run, to be just another enemy.
Whatever really happened between Zhang and Peng, the truth is that they were both already victims, having been raised in a society that completely denies the importance of the individual.