The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Why Is David Epstein Still a Columbia University Professor After Incest Plea?

Jackie Carrero and Mikey Zhong of the Columbia Spectator note that David Epstein is still employed as a political science professor at Columbia University, even after he copped a guilty plea (to the misdemeanor of “attempted incest”) in connection with a case that made headlines in December. Epstein, who had used his blog at Huffington Post to attack […]

WeinerGate Götterdämmerung

“If these new standards come in to play, it will mean a drastic reduction in the number of people willing to risk running for office — or be activists or writers or anyone that Andrew Breitbart deems interesting enough to start a harassment campaign against.” — Amanda Marcotte, “The Worst Thing About Weinergate? The Total […]

Are Krauthammer and Will Non-Traditional Supporters Of A Non-Traditional Candidate?

by Smitty Doug Ross surveys two generally sharp fellows. A brace of otherwise savvy pundits. They have watched the crisis progress over decades. They know the history. The must know that the ruling class patterns that brought the country to this point are not going to succeed. Yet they claim to be against one obvious […]

Another Reminder That the Academic Elite Are Your Moral Superiors

Michael Schultz is associate vice president for development and alumni affairs at the University of Vermont, and wrote his 2009 Ph.D. thesis on a very interesting subject: “Elucidating the Role of the Presidential Spouse in Development and Alumni Relations.” The role of the university president’s spouse in alumni relations is a subject Schultz knows intimately, […]

Moms, ‘Myths’ and Cultural Marxism

“In the hands of a skillful indoctrinator, the average student not only thinks what the indoctrinator wants him to think . . . but is altogether positive that he has arrived at his position by independent intellectual exertion. This man is outraged by the suggestion that he is the flesh-and-blood tribute to the success of […]

Meet a Typical Anti-American Elitist

Her wedding was reported by the New York Times in 2006: When they met at last, it was by transcontinental telephone in fall 2003. Ms. Akner, then working in New York as the director of education at MediaBistro, a Web site for print and electronic journalism, hired Mr. Brodesser, then a reporter for Variety in […]

Fear and Loathing in Cairo

“In this case, rightwingers who have an interest in stoking fear and loathing of Muslims worldwide pounced at the opportunity to smear all Egyptians with this crime. Popular rightwing bloggers Debbie Schlussel, Robert Stacy McCain, and Sister Toldjah were among those who immediately used the attack to reinforce their anti-Muslim, anti-revolution arguments. But the real […]

Does Sarah Palin Need a Tutor? Would Richard Wolffe Volunteer for the Job?

Cubachi has a post about Richard Wolffe on Hardball with Chris Matthews, in which Wolffe ridiculed the British writer C.S. Lewis as a mere “children’s author”: Lewis was, of course, a master of Christian apologetics and a good friend of J.R.R. Tolkien — they were colleagues at Oxford University — with whom he shared a desire to […]

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