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Sunday, April 30, 2023
Saturday, April 29, 2023
"The New Gatekeepers"
Nevertheless, the Great Awokening is a misleading term. Woke activists are not honest missionaries; they are infiltrators, acting with the specific goal of seizing control of institutions and imposing their views on others. Unlike the Protestant evangelists of the Great Awakenings, today’s activists do not use simple language to spread their message to sinners in need of repentance. On the contrary, they camouflage radical beliefs in bureaucratic acronyms like DEI and CRT, and anodyne-sounding terms like “gender-affirming health care”—in practice, often a euphemism for castrating boys and men and sterilizing and performing irreversible mastectomies on girls and women. Where Protestant evangelists sought voluntary and whole-hearted conversion, the new activists seek submission, imposed on penalty of ostracism.
Read all of Michael Lind's essay in Tablet magazine.
Our Guardians in the Media
ABC News edited an interview with presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to exclude comments he made about vaccines.
Rather than permitting you make up your mind, they decided not to let you hear those comments.
The contempt these people have for us is boundless.
But Look for Common Values
Regarding Wally Bock's observation, I'd say that a key part of success is being able to work with people who don't resemble you.
The Next Big Project? Perhaps.
The first Big Project is done. It is rolling out.
The second, perhaps even bigger, Big Project is here. I was up at four o'clock this morning making notes on it.
My team is together. A small cadre of good and bright people who know how to maintain confidentiality.
An early step is next: Arguing against the project's importance.
Far-Sighted Ike
"The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present -- and is gravely to be regarded.
"Yet, in holding scientific research and discovery in respect, as we should, we must also be alert to the equal and opposite danger that public policy could itself become the captive of a scientific-technological elite."
Friday, April 28, 2023
First Paragraph
This book is about manliness. What is that? It's best to start from examples we know: our sports heroes, too many to name; Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister who is the mightiest woman of our time (What! a woman, manly?); Harry S. Truman, who said "the buck stops here"; Humphrey Bogart, who as Rick in Casablanca was confident and cynical - cool before "cool" was invented; and the courageous police and firemen in New York City on September 11, 2001. Manliness seeks and welcomes drama and prefers times of war, conflict, and risk. Manliness brings change or restores order at moments when routine is not enough, when the plan fails, when the whole idea of rational control by modern science develops leaks. Manliness is the next-to-last resort, before resignation and prayer.
- From Manliness by Harvey C. Mansfield
A Breakfast Game
An old game involved choosing historical figures as dinner companions. Let's alter that and select famous figures as breakfast companions who would read and comment on the day's news.
Who would be on your list?
Mine would include:
- Tom Wolfe
- Joan Didion
- Christopher Hitchens
- Eric Hoffer
- Stanley Crouch
- William F. Buckley Jr.
- Booker T. Washington
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan
- Charles Krauthammer
- Lee Kuan Yew
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