The San Francisco School Board has decided to rename 44 schools that were named for individuals who transgressed today’s wokester orthodoxy. In The Atlantic, Gary Kamiya chronicles the absurd spectacle of a self-righteous “intelligentsia” purging the past’s sinful characters and resetting our calendar at Year Zero.
The default position of Western elites is to condemn one’s country as a hellscape of inequity, racism and injustice. Lionel Shriver sees grave geopolitical implications in this self-mortification. In the Spectator US
Steven Koonin, chief scientist of the Obama-era U.S. Department of Energy, has written a book disentangling actual climate science from elite opinion, finding that many claims about global warming and climate change are false. In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins relates how Koonin found that the real science suggests global warming will be gradual and limited.
Earlier this week former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Before the verdict was in, two prominent American politicians –
For seven years Andrew Gutmann sent his daughter to the US$54,000-a-year Brearley girls’ school in Manhattan. But Gutmann finally had enough of the school’s obsession
The default position of Western elites is to condemn one’s country as a hellscape of inequity, racism and injustice. Lionel Shriver sees grave geopolitical implications in this self-mortification. In the Spectator US
Steven Koonin, chief scientist of the Obama-era U.S. Department of Energy, has written a book disentangling actual climate science from elite opinion, finding that many claims about global warming and climate change are false. In the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins relates how Koonin found that the real science suggests global warming will be gradual and limited.
Earlier this week former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin was found guilty of murdering George Floyd. Before the verdict was in, two prominent American politicians –
For seven years Andrew Gutmann sent his daughter to the US$54,000-a-year Brearley girls’ school in Manhattan. But Gutmann finally had enough of the school’s obsession
