Spring ‘23 “And More” Collection
The DEI Industry Needs to Check Its Privilege- The worst of the industry is expensive and runs from useless to counterproductive. (Atlantic, 5/31/23)
Uneducating America-The latest NAEP scores show that the nation’s youth are painfully ignorant about U.S. history and civics. (City Journal, 5/30/23) Nation’s Report Card
At High School Debates, Debate Is No Longer Allowed: At national tournaments, judges are making their stances clear: students who argue ‘capitalism can reduce poverty’ or ‘Israel has a right to defend itself’ will lose—no questions asked. (The Free Press, 5/25/23)
Flunking the Equity Test- Surveys reveal that most Americans who support teaching critical race theory in schools don’t understand its principles. (City Journal, Spring 2023)
A Century of Censorship- Matt Farwell's painstaking timeline of over a hundred years of American information suppression, secret bureaucracies, and "anti-disinformation" scares (Racket, 5/19/23)
The Party Is Cancelled- Inside a monthly New York City hangout, where fired university professors and controversial TikTokers get together to have discussions they feel they can’t have anywhere else. (New Yorker, 5/17/23)
Silicon Valley’s Civil War- Tech’s leadership is splitting into two elites—and the battle between them will shape America’s future. (Tablet, 5/14/23)
Why Some Companies Are Saying ‘Diversity and Belonging’ Instead of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’- The changing terminology reflects new thinking among some consultants, who say traditional D.E.I. strategies haven’t worked out as planned. (NYT, 5/13/23)
Poor Civics and History Scores Are a National Wake-Up Call- “We’re a deeply polarized nation…. If we do not find ways to help our nation’s educators pass on our tradition of self-government, we will lose it.” (Jack Miller Center 5/3/23) Poll results; Nation’s Report Card; Related- Uneducating America (City Journal 5/31/23)
Commiie Chic Invades American Grade Schools - Angela Davis was a dedicated fangirl of Soviet dictator Leonid Brezhnev and cult leader Jim Jones. So why is she presented to children as a hero? (Tablet, 4/30/23)
David Sacks: How The Professional Class Spread The Woke Phenomenon Across Every Major Institution In Our Society (RealClear Politics 4/24/23 and Youtube 4/15/23 )- The people running these institutions are always claiming that what they are doing is in the interest of democracy. But democracy is you let the majority of the population exercise its will and get its way and that's not what is happening here…
If Western Civilization Dies, Put It Down as a Suicide. We are in the grip of an ideology that disowns our genius, denounces our success, disdains merit. (WSJ, 4/17/23)
The new elite: the rise of the progressive aristocracy (Spectator, 4/15/23)
On the communist origins of diversity, equality, and inclusion ideology (Heterodox STEM, 4/3/23)
The Military Should Reject DEI and CRT- The Pentagon’s relentless focus on racial differences endangers our readiness to deter, fight and win wars. (WSJ, 3/24/23)
Is “toxic wokeness” a greater threat than the Chinese Communist Party? (FAIR Substack, 3/20/23)
What it Means to be Woke (NYT, 3/19/23); You Can’t Define Woke (TCW, Atlantic, 3/17/23)
Is Judicial Review Racist? (City Journal, 3/9/23)
My Statement to Congress: In testimony to the House Judiciary Committee about the Twitter Files, a few words about why state-funded "anti-disinformation" and free speech can't coexist (Taibbi, Racket, 3/8/23)
Forgetting vs. Overcoming: Abuses of History and the 1619 Project — The 1619 Project is, strangely, a history project that encourages forgetting as much as it remembers. (Quillette, 3/2/23)
