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We Aren't Raising Adults. We Are Breeding Very Excellent Sheep.

I taught English at Yale University for ten years. I had some vivid, idiosyncratic students—people who went on to write novels, devote themselves to their church, or just wander the world for a few years. But mostly I taught what one of them herself called “excellent sheep.” These students were excellent, technically speaking. They were smart, focused, and ferociously hard-working. But they were also sheep: stunted in their sense of purpose, waiting meekly for direction, frequently anxious and lost. I was so struck by this—that our “best and brightest” students are so often as helpless as children—that I wrote a book about it. It came out in 2014, not long before my former colleague Nicholas Christakis was surrounded and browbeaten by a crowd of undergraduates for failing to make them feel coddled and safe—an early indication of the rise of what we now call wokeness. How to reconcile the two phenomena, I started to wonder. Does wokeness, with its protests and pugnacity, represent an…

Sussmann Trial Exposes Dems' Scandal-Industrial Process

Modern political scandals, like Caesar’s Gaul, are divided into three parts. The first is the actual malfeasance. That might be taking bribes, lying to federal agents, leaking classified materials, sexual misconduct, selling political access, whatever. The second part is the hyper-partisan involvement of Congress and, often, federal agencies, all eager to score points for their side. The third part is the media’s role, which goes beyond bias to include active promotion of political goals. Federal agencies, like all bureaucratic institutions, have always tried to increase their power and preserve their autonomy. What’s different today is that the bureaucrats, and often their entire agencies, are frequently partisan players. That’s disheartening but understandable. One party is clearly the “party of government” and the party of experts. Most educated professionals, including bureaucrats and journalists, identify with that party. Filled with partisan “civil servants,” these agencies…

New Fatness Chart Will Tell Your Level of Victimhood

Klaus Schwab's Claim about China is a New Level of Crazy

MICHAEL MOORE ON MSNBC: 'WHY CAN'T WE REPEAL THE 2ND AMENDMENT'

Jones: Victim's families want the media to 'take a breath'

Hannity: The time has come to protect our schools

Biden Admin: K-12 Schools Must Put Boys In Girls’ Bathrooms To Get Federal Lunch Money

Joe Biden and Democrats weren’t kidding about their pledge to transform public institutions into gender dysphoria contagion zones. K-12 schools must allow boys into girls’ private areas to obtain federal funds for lunches, breakfasts, and snacks, the Biden administration announced this month. A U.S. Department of Education spokesman told The Federalist the Biden administration’s press releases from several agencies announcing this policy will be followed by formal rulemaking in June. “It seems to be playing politics with feeding poor kids, which is really unfortunate,” John Elcesser, executive director of the Indiana Non-Public Education Association, said via phone amid weeks of attempting to sort out these new demands with government officials on behalf of private schools in his state. “Because if a school feels like they cannot participate because it’s in conflict with their mission or values, if a religious exemption is not granted, you’re taking away a program that’s feeding…

Rand Paul: the New World Order is no longer a conspiracy theory.

CNN Editor Defends 'Sick Son of a B*tch' Beto O'Rourke for Crashing Uvalde Presser

Yesterday afternoon Texas Governor Greg Abbott, state public safety officials, and the mayor of Uvalde held a presser to update the public about the horrific shooting at Robb Elementary School where 19 kids were shot and killed by Salvador Ramos. Two teachers were also killed. Ramos shot his grandmother in the face before starting his rampage; the grandmother miraculously survived. Ramos was a loner, angry, and reportedly was known to local officials. He worked as an evening manager at the local Wendy’s and purchased two long guns. He was 18. It was a legal purchase. These details were going to be outlined by law enforcement officials, but Beto O’Rourke decided to crash the presser and turn the whole event into a fiasco.  O’Rourke, who is also known as Bob since the man doesn’t have a drop of Hispanic blood in him, is gung-ho about gun confiscation. We all know he’s an anti-Second Amendment crusader. As someone noted on social media, when parents did this at school boards, they were…