Jake 🇺🇸
@omni_american
Assoc. Prof. of Classics @afa_alliance One feels the old abuses and sees their correction, but one also sees the abuses of the correction itself. —Montesquieu
"Gen Z is hard at work dismantling Western Civilization with its political correctness & pathological fragility—or so say commentators left, right, & center alike. We’re here to report, however tentatively, that all is not yet lost." In @JoinPersuasion: persuasion.community/p/the-kids-are…
This explains 100% of the recent comments made by Biden, Harris, Hillary, Obama, John Kerry, and other top Democrats in favor of censoring the media.
The belief in false consciousness among the left is so strong - and so comforting to them - that they think all that needs to happen is all media to become their personal propaganda channel, and everyone will instantly fall into line.
The belief in false consciousness among the left is so strong - and so comforting to them - that they think all that needs to happen is all media to become their personal propaganda channel, and everyone will instantly fall into line.
Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* thinking. Students, academics, and anyone else who outsources their writing to LLMs will find their screens full of words and their minds emptied of thought.
Weird how the election was largely decided on the issue of Haitians eating cats but it hasn't been a thing since.
This is a prime example of what my friend John McWhorter terms “woke racism.” (It’s also a kind of acceptable progressive homophobia and misogyny.) The insidious idea that if you belong to a so-called protected group there is only one correct way to see a given issue. This kind…
5/ "Volume I in the Seeing America Clearly series has chapters on everything from poverty to police violence to transgender issues to climate change. These chapters come from a wide variety of contributors—in addition to Lawrence Eppard these include Heather Mac Donald, Michael…
4/ "The Seeing America Clearly series of books from Connors Institute Press is different, a truly nonpartisan and heterodox examination of the modern United States: How far have we come as a country? What is working well? What still needs improvement? What are the unbiased facts…
3/ "Books that tackle social problems often do so from one of these distorted, ideological perspectives, focusing on the problems that one political 'tribe' cares about and doing so in a misleading, partisan manner.
2/ "There is a tendency among many in both conservative and progressive America to catastrophize the current state of the country—everyone somehow just knows things are 'as bad as ever.' Each side of the aisle has different reasons for believing this, of course, and chooses…