Pseudo-knowledge

by | Oct 5, 2024 | Quotes and Quips

“Looking at the consequences of television, from politics to journalism, one starts to wonder whether pseudo-knowledge might be worse than no knowledge at all.” – Helen Andrews

Totalitarianism

by | Oct 4, 2024 | Quotes and Quips

“East Germany was total in its totalitarianism. Everything was banned that wasn’t compulsory.” – P.J.O’Rourke

Outsourced Uplift

by | Oct 3, 2024 | Quotes and Quips

“One of the things that I learned from black leaders of yesteryear, pre-civil rights movement—Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, Mary Church Terrell—is that uplift can never be outsourced. Because when it is, you leave yourself at the mercy of someone else.”...

Union Racism

by | Oct 1, 2024 | Quotes and Quips

“If racists cannot prevent today’s minority young people from becoming pilots, the teachers unions can—by denying them a decent education, in schools whose top priorities are iron-clad job security for teachers, and billions of dollars in union dues for teachers...