Teachers unions are your enemy
Not all teachers – for there are many good and decent ones – but the profession, and certainly its upper echelon, is fast becoming a societal poison: The president of …
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Hills are alive with the sound of white supremacy
The story of the present times is the never-ending race to out-idiot each other on the way to the bottom: The University of Oxford is considering scrapping sheet music for …
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Is there a Doctor in the house? Plenty
The perennial “to Doctor or not to Doctor” debate about credentials and titles is with us again, this time thanks to a “Wall Street Journal” op-ed arguing that the incoming …
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Honey, I swapped the party bases
Once upon a time, centre-left wing parties were the parties of working class and the poor, while centre-right parties were the parties of the wealthy, middle class and the educated. …
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Science is settled: Republicans are fascists
As CNN’s Christiane Amanpour again compares Trump to Hitler on the 82nd anniversary of Kristallnacht, a new a piece of research is being touted by major media outlets: “US Republicans …
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Teaching young to hate their own
There is plenty of negativity to go around these days just about everywhere you look, but if you want to be particularly depressed today, I recommend this article from “The …
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China DGAF, the left oblivious
The wages of identity politics – “white man bad” and all that – is the obsessive focus on own society’s failings, the real, the exaggerated, the imaginary, while everyone else …
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Why the children’s crusades
Question asked: Does anyone else find it strange that the allegedly scientific "climate change" movement is being led by a 16-year-old girl and justifying its public policies on the homework …
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Extremely disempowered at TAFE
What are they teaching you at TAFE these days? A Melbourne TAFE student says she was shocked to see a “sickening” quote from a prominent anti-Islam activist suggesting up to …
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Philosophers agree: we need to deny access to “wrong” ideas
Last year, Bryan W. Van Norden, professor of philosophy at Wuhan University, Yale-NUS College and Vassar College (and the author of “Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto”) wrote an opinion piece …
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Depressing them softly
Over a space of a century or less, the developed world has gone from the one extreme where the education systems used to instill triumphalist values without much reflection to …
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Climate strike? How about nuclear first strike?
Another day, another mass walk-out from schools around the world, including throughout Australia, by children protesting about their elders’ inaction in the face of a climatic calamity that’s set to …
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Journal of Heresy and Damned Knowledge
That we have ever come – or, rather, come back – to this point again is the sad indictment of the intellectual climate throughout the Western academia: An international group …
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Guilty until never proved innocent
As an Indiana judge said at the height of the 1870s Women’s Crusade forcing saloons to close through sit-ins and pray-ins, “Mob law enforced by women is no better than …
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What do metalheads and Papuans have in common?
A lot apparently, according to an anthropologist: Heavy metal fans have evolved to communicate with each other like remote tribes in Papua New Guinea, a study by anthropologists has found. …
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The Weakest Generation
Depression, mental illness, chronic stress and anxiety, and self-harm are all serious and often tragic and devastating problems for the sufferers and those around them. Sadly, and counter-intuitively, they seem …
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No more ABCDE for your ABC?
Judging by the test results, the learning outcomes in Australian schools are at best stagnating in absolute terms and declining relatively to other OECD countries. This is a problem for …
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Doctor Doctor, gimme the news, I’ve got a bad case of mocking you
The new slogan for The Daily Chrenk should henceforth be “TDC – read it all here two days before News.com.au catches onto it”. I wasn’t going to blog about this …
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Lest We Remember
I like free speech and free market because they allow us to see who the idiots are and to spend our money elsewhere. Wisconsin parents – avoid Ripon College for …
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Victimhood Olympics in space
In space no one can hear you scream, but in Ohio school administrators can certainly hear parents scream about their children being given this exercise: Administrators with Cuyahoga Falls Schools …
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