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5 days ago | 
takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple
The Week’s Most Trolling, Strolling, and Boulder-Rolling Headlines EAGLE ROCKEDL.A.’s Eagle Rock is situated between the filth of Downtown and the Armenians of Glendale. It’s known as the place where there’s never been a house sold without the buyer saying to his wife, “Look, it’s what we can afford.”Last week Eagle Rock saw the most excitement it’s witnessed since that time in 1997 when a homebuyer bought without reluctance.
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6 days ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Theodore Dalrymple
By Theodore Dalrymple One of the things that most surprises me about proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion as a guide to policy, especially in universities where intelligent people are supposed to abound, is that positive discrimination, which is an inevitable corollary of DEI, entails negative discrimination. You cannot, after all, discriminate in favour of some without discriminating against others. This is not a very difficult thought: on the contrary, it is obvious.
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6 days ago | 
lawliberty.org | Charles King |Reema Jadeja-Reed |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama
Religious or agnostic, one would be hard-pressed to find an individual in the Anglosphere unfamiliar with George Frideric Handel’s Messiah. Considered to be the greatest participatory work ever created, it is estimated that 13.7 million western classical compositions have been written since Messiah in 1741, yet it remains the most annually heard and sung work in the entire classical repertoire.
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6 days ago | 
lawliberty.org | Sam Negus |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama
It is now a quarter-millennium since those embattled farmers stood by that arched bridge, flags to April’s breeze unfurled. Just as the Massachusetts militia’s volleys at Lexington and Concord portended innumerable more to follow, John Ferling’s Shots Heard Round the World: America, Britain, and Europe in the Revolutionary War will be a first among many new books timed for the anniversaries of each momentous event in America’s early national history.
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6 days ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Theodore Dalrymple
By Theodore DalrympleMy reaction to world affairs veers between complacency and panic. Either it is the end of the world, or everything will continue as before. I have been through enough world crises to know that not all of them end in catastrophe; it does not follow, however, from the fact that I have so far always recovered from illnesses, that I am immortal.
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6 days ago | 
takimag.com | Theodore Dalrymple
My reaction to world affairs veers between complacency and panic. Either it is the end of the world, or everything will continue as before. I have been through enough world crises to know that not all of them end in catastrophe; it does not follow, however, from the fact that I have so far always recovered from illnesses, that I am immortal. The past couple of weeks have not been free of turmoil, and sometimes it has crossed my mind that I am about to be plunged into abject poverty.
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1 week ago | 
theepochtimes.com | Theodore Dalrymple
CommentaryOne of the things that most surprises me about proponents of diversity, equity, and inclusion as a guide to policy, especially in universities where intelligent people are supposed to abound, is that positive discrimination, which is an inevitable corollary of DEI, entails negative discrimination. You cannot, after all, discriminate in favour of some without discriminating against others. This is not a very difficult thought: on the contrary, it is obvious.
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1 week ago | 
lawliberty.org | Marc Wheat |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama |Daniel Mahoney
Educational freedom has been controversial for a very long time—by my estimate, the modern educational freedom movement started in 399 BC, when a private tutor was forced to drink hemlock by the equivalent of the local board of education for failing to acknowledge the god of the city and a rather vague charge of “corrupting the youth.”How families choose to educate their children is still the locus of enormously controversial debates.
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1 week ago | 
lawliberty.org | Thomas Howard |Rachel Lu |Theodore Dalrymple |Bruno Meyerhof Salama
In 1908, a 13-year-old boy named Khorloogiin Dugar entered a Buddhist monastery in Achit Beysiyn, Mongolia, a region under the control of the Qing Dynasty. He took the religious name “Choibalsan” and began studying to be a lama, but spirituality, it would seem, was not his forte. In 1913, the boy fled from the monastery and found his way into the Russian education system.
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1 week ago | 
newenglishreview.org | Theodore Dalrymple
By Theodore DalrympleMy wife ordered a few printed labels online, and they arrived a week later through the post. I have known election propaganda less hectoring than the envelope in which they came. “Our packaging is now plastic-free,” it said, of course in green lettering, though not too brightly green. This was more olive than apple in colour; the latter might have suggested chemical dyes. “Even this [envelope] window is plasticless,” it said.
