Greg Sisk at Mirror of Justice– reflecting on Peggy Noonan’s charge that our thought leaders (including university elites) are detached from the essential nature of regular citizens– asks whether the charge applies just as well to profs at Catholic institutions. Hmmmmm….yes.
So says the governor of Wyoming. Governor Dave Freudenthal is threatening to sell off a chunk of [the Grand Teton national park]… unless the Obama administration comes up with more money to pay for education in the financially beleaguered state.
Writing at his NYTimes Your Money column, Rob Lieber implicitly ties together Peggy Noonan’s and Angelo M. Codevilla’s recent writings about the educated elite and the rest of us with problems with teachers pension funds and ends up predicting class warfare over how to make up the trillion dollar shortfall in funding pensions to state [...]
Shortly before noon on Tuesday, January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger took off from Cape Canavarel, Florida, to put a new tracking and data relay satellite into orbit. Seventy-three seconds into the flight, the spacecraft disintegrated over the Atlantic Ocean. All seven astronauts aboard were killed. Among those astronauts was the first member of the [...]
President Obama’s favorite candidate for senator from Colorado – Michael Bennet – is facing big trouble from the days when he was superintendent of Denver Public Schools. Pointing to a king-sized mess surrounding the teachers pension fund there, the New York Times today dropped a front-page bombshell that seems to imply he was either financially [...]
Not to go overboard on this whole educated-elite-vs-the-country thing, but there’s an interesting op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Dorothy Rabinowitz that speaks to the issue. She writes about the failure of the elite class to understand why folks are protesting the building of a mosque near Ground Zero: The question today is whether [...]
As anyone who follows this blog—or who has sat in on any of my university lectures, for that matter—knows, I am a big fan of Teach for America (TFA). And in this—its 20th anniversary year—it’s getting a lot of justly deserved attention in the media, both mainstream and new. But along with all the praise, [...]
Angelo M. Codevilla — professor emeritus of international relations at Boston University—caused quite a stir with his piece in the July/August issue of The American Spectator, America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution. In it, he argues that there are two classes in America, the ruling class and the rest of us–the majority [...]
At the same time as Codevilla’ s article was riling conservatives, leftist intellectual Paul Berman published a book that greatly upset America’s intellectual elite. Berman—who writes on politics and literature for places like The New York Times and The New Republic and is journalism prof and writer-in-residence at New York University—has published a controversial new [...]
As expected, there’s been a great deal of reaction from members of the liberal intellectual elite to Paul Berman’s new book The Flight of the Intellectuals. His targets may lack the courage, as Berman says, to even meaningfully discuss Islamism but they’re ready to fight when it comes to Berman’s portrayal of them and their [...]