Published on The Times of Israel Ideologies, “isms,” are holistic expositions of the universe. That’s why they’re so appealing. They cause scales to fall from eyes, revealing – apparently – how the engine of history truly operates. The catch, of course, is that ideologies are rigid, inflexible, deterministic. In turn, their adherents, in order to safeguard…
Category: Liberalism
‘Glee’ and the Balkanization of the Left [DAILY CALLER] The show rammed progressivism down its audience’s throat, and now nobody’s watching.
Published on The Daily Caller Interested in an exemplification of the identity crisis that’s tearing American liberalism into disjointed bits? Look no further than Fox’s (once popular) television show about high school misfits — pardon me, courageous “nonconformists” — united by song and dance: Glee, which recently entered its sixth and, revealingly, final season. The…
Will Diversity Destroy the Left? [FEDERALIST] Insisting that diversity depends on race and identity instead of class will cost the Left its political power.
Published on The Federalist For the proud liberal, a quick thought experiment — or, rather, litmus test. Is the following group diverse? Four college students: one white, one black, one Asian, and one Hispanic. “Yes, of course,” you reply. But what if I were to also note that these young adults hail from Bloomfield Hills,…
Ferguson and Affirmative Action [DETROIT NEWS] Americans will never see beyond race while being lectured that diversity must remain a feature of their country.
Published in The Detroit News Since the 1960s, the progressive wing of the Left has crusaded for a “colorblind” society in addition to the adulation of minorities. Alas, these two aims are — quite obviously — contradictory. Americans will never see beyond the reality of diversity if they are being incessantly lectured that diversity will and should…
Jesse Jackson’s Futile Feud With Oxbridge [NRO] For the better part of the past millennium, two of the world's best universities have thrived without affirmative action.
Published on National Review Online The 2013 film Admission is a comedy-drama about the professional and romantic trials of Portia Nathan (Tina Fey), an intrepid Princeton University admissions officer. At one point in the movie, Helen (Sonya Walger), an Englishwoman and eminent Virginia Woolf scholar from the University of Cambridge, takes a dig at Portia:…
Tempering the Conservative Outrage at Michigan State [WEEKLY STANDARD] Let radical professors hang themselves with their own rope.
Published on The Weekly Standard Hardly an academic semester goes by without a high-profile opportunity arising for the right to address pervasive, perennial anti-conservative animus on the American college campus. And hardly an academic semester goes by without the right, reflexively blinded by righteous indignation, blowing an opportunity to do so. Too often, conservatives, in a…