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NYT: The Troubling Appeal of Education at For-Profit Schools
The NYT has a piece on “The Troubling Appeal of Education at For-Profit Schools”. Some two million Americans are enrolled in for-profit colleges, up from 400,000 in 2000. Those students, most of them working adults getting short-term certificates, are disproportionately … Continue reading
Politico: Kremlin Media Turns Against Hitler
“Kremlin-backed media turns on Trump” screams the Politico headline. News outlets funded by Putin’s government rooted for Trump’s election but now relish the chaotic first weeks of his administration. Don’t you just hate it when you do all that work … Continue reading
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Nagel vs. Dennett
If you’re a philosophy of mind junkie like I am, and if you’re an even bigger New Mysterian junkie as I also am, then it doesn’t get any better than Thomas Nagel reviewing arch-nemesis Daniel Dennett’s functionalist philosophy of mind, … Continue reading
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CJR on Breitbart-Led Media Ecosystem
From the astonishingly leftwing Columbia Journalism Review is “Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda”, by Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, and Ethan Zuckerman (ahem, ahem, ahem, and ahem): THE 2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SHOOK the foundations of … Continue reading
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The Great Meme War
Writing in Politico, leftist Ben Schreckinger has a long profile piece titled “World War Meme”. Schreckinger profiles various “veterans of the Great Meme War”: That’s the grandiose name given—only half ironically—to the decentralized efforts of a swarm of anonymous internet … Continue reading
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RIP: Libertarianism?
In a long Politico piece, Tim Alberta asks if Trump’s election, and the relative decline in political stature of Rand Paul and other Congressional libertarians, represents “The End of the Libertarian Dream?” Meanwhile, in “Ayn Rand is dead. Liberals are … Continue reading
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James Wolcott: “Why the Alt-Left is a Problem, Too”
In Vanity Fair, James Wolcott writes a screed against the percolating Alt-Left (“Why the Alt-Left is a Problem, Too”). “Much of the media spotlight has been on the “alt-right,”, the byline reads, “But the “alt-left” provides a mirror image distortion: … Continue reading
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AP-NORC Poll: Political Divide Over American Identity
From AP: A new survey from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds Republicans are far more likely to cite a culture grounded in Christian beliefs and the traditions of early European immigrants as essential to U.S. identity. … Continue reading
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XTC – Trailer: This Is Pop (BBC4 Documentary)
Here is the 6 min trailer for an upcoming (and long overdue) BBC4 documentary on one of the most underrated pop bands of all time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh0-TMY2RcM
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Steyn on Sweden
Be sure to check out the 22:30 mark, which starts a debate clip of Steyn and Farage debating Simon Schama and some other Eurocrat chick. Steyn destroys them.
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