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Embracing Diversity rather than Academics

The Elizabethtown College faculty recently voted to endorse (and presumably to implement) a 19-page document titled "Embracing Inclusive Excellence: A Five-Year Plan for Strengthening Campus Diversity." The plan passed by a margin of five to one, ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, Dallas Blog,  21 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Johns Hopkins,  University of California, Los Angeles

A Call to the Alternative Right

Place your flash alternative materials here. As one might surmise, one doesn’t get rich by serving the HL Mencken Club. Unlike other organizations, which have …  [Read More] NEW YORK--One felt the backlash against the BNP–BBC fiasco all the way to the ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, Taki's Top Drawer,  10 Nov 2009
Related Topics: BBC

Beautiful Losers

Place your flash alternative materials here. In the latest issue of Quadrant, Peter Kocan complains about my “sourness” in depicting the paleoconservative persuasion in my …  [Read More] When A Moveable Feast was published in 1964, I had been living ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, Taki's Top Drawer,  29 Oct 2009

Ignoble Prizes

Place your flash alternative materials here. The announcement that Barack Obama had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace took many people by surprise. Note …  [Read More] He is the clown prince in a continent whose rulers boast of more clowns … ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, Taki's Top Drawer,  12 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama

The Desert of the Real

Place your flash alternative materials here. A wealth of ideas rushed through my mind the other day as I was watching the production of Nineteen …  [Read More] New York--Irving Kristol who died last week was generally seen as the father of … [Read ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, Taki's Top Drawer,  29 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Irving Kristol

A Tale of Two Conservatives

Place your flash alternative materials here. John Derbyshire and Sam Tanenhaus are both middle-aged males living within a radius of thirty miles of Times Square. …  [Read More] There is a mordant Eskimo proverb that says a good butler is worth at … ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, Taki's Top Drawer,  17 Sep 2009
Related Topics: John Derbyshire

Shouldering the Burden of War: Protests End and War Continues under Obama

About three years ago, when antiwar panels and antiwar sloganeering were the order of the day at my college, I predicted such impassioned protests would end -- not when American military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan was terminated -- but when a ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, Dallas Blog,  16 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bob Herbert,  U.S. Congress,  White House,  George W. Bush

Vdare.com: 09/15/09 - John Derbyshire vs. Sam Tanenhaus-A Tale of Two "Conservatisms"

Having suggested these superficial similarities, I might also note that it is hard to imagine two individuals who see the world more differently. It is no accident that while Derbyshire composed a long, sympathetic commentary on my scholarship for ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, V Dare,  15 Sep 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  John Derbyshire,  Abigail Thernstrom,  Albert Einstein,  Barack Obama

The Politics of Guilt

Place your flash alternative materials here. Recently while talking to a “moderate” conservative and faithful NR reader, I was struck by this person’s profoundly negative …  [Read More] GSTAAD--Gee whizz, couldn’t someone have told me about it 19 ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, Taki's Top Drawer,  27 Aug 2009

Voices Against Progress: What I Learned from Genovese, Lasch, and Bradford

I met Christopher Lasch for the first time at a lecture that he gave at Case Western Reserve in 1969. It was the height of the Vietnam War, and I was an assistant professor in the history department. His remarks were centered on the U.S.’s ...

From PAUL GOTTFRIED, Front Porch Republic,  11 Aug 2009
Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Christopher Lasch,  Pat Buchanan,  Dorothy Day,  Thomas Jefferson

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