DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: How long will taxpayers in red states be willing to subsidize universities that appear to be their ideological enemies? In a politically polarized nation, why subsidize the other side?
Archive for 2016
May 9, 2016
KNOW YOUR PLACE, PEASANTS! Dem convention host: Sanders supporters better ‘behave themselves’ when he loses.
IT’S PROBABLY NOTHING: According To Deutsche Bank, The “Worst Kind Of Recession” May Have Already Started.
(Classical reference in headline.)
PAUL JOHNSON ON TRUMP: “Trump is a man of excess–and today a man of excess is what’s needed.”
Read the whole thing.
JUST THINK OF THEM AS DEMOCRAT OPERATIVES WITH BYLINES, AND IT ALL MAKES SENSE: Obama Advisor Openly Brags About Lying to Public, Media Yawns.
I’m not sure though, that doing everything possible to ensure that this story doesn’t develop legs counts as yawning. Silence definitely implies consent in this case.
WHEN DEMOCRATS GET TREATED AS BADLY AS REPUBLICANS: ‘I’ve been silent’: Harvard’s Clinton backers face life on a pro-Bernie campus.
Walk around any college campus and Bernie Sanders’ popularity is immediately apparent. Depending on the climate, you’re likely to see Bernie T-shirts or Bernie sweaters or Bernie hats or Bernie scarves.
You’re less likely to encounter Hillary Clinton memorabilia. In a setting where students are meant to be rebelling against the status quo, to be wearing berets and hanging Che Guevara posters on their walls, supporting Clinton just isn’t cool.
It turns out this is even true at Harvard University – hardly known for revolutionary politics.
In April, Sam Koppelman, a 20-year-old government student at Harvard, wrote a letter to the New York Times lamenting that his support for Clinton meant that on campus he “might as well be Pat Buchanan”.
“At Harvard, admitting that #ImWithHer is nearly tantamount to boasting ‘Make America Great Again’,” Koppelman wrote.
If you’re not in, you’re out. Lefty politics are all about tribalism. But congrats to the 20-year-old who knows who Pat Buchanan is.
TAKING HELICOPTER PARENTING TO NEW LEVELS: Parents, Want to Attach GPS Monitors to Your Kids Every Time They Leave the House?
Related: ‘Bad Moms’ Reminds Mothers the World Over That It’s All Right to Be Imperfect.