April 8, 2019

Raw, stinky progressive BS needs a reckoning

Reasonable citizens of our republic are frustrated.  They tire of progressive politics invading every simple moment, ruining things that used to be fun, injecting anger and politically correct nonsense where it should not go. ...

May 6, 2018

Find your teenager a job this summer!

Summer is approaching, and I worry that too many budding Progressives with unearned, idle time on their hands might engage in nasty, stupid things proportional to the temperature.  Maybe we'll get lucky and enjoy a cool summer, but I wo...

March 14, 2018

Gun-Free Zones Are Not Evil People-Free Zones

The horrific Parkland, Florida H.S. massacre tears at the conscience of us all.  It also predictably invited the tired, unworkable policy fix from the left: let's just ban guns!  How the left imagines that this might fix these...

November 23, 2017

The Noble Poor

I keep wondering where are the unemployed, neglected people in this Chinese city? Living here for a year now I keep looking, and except during my occasional Saturday trip downtown to a museum in the wealthy, manicured, target-rich touristy ...

November 3, 2017

Mathematics Is Not 'White'

This is getting ridiculous. The other day, I read how a math education professor claims that the traditional math curriculum is "white."  I visited her university page to examine her C.V., along with the titles of papers s...

September 19, 2017

Free speech for thee (but not for me?)

As I witness the unfolding foul politics in America of censorship and the gradual decimation of the most important right guaranteed by our Constitution, that of free speech, I reflect back to sad moments of my independent school teaching. I consid...