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Young, Dumb and Broke – and Socialist (but I repeat myself)

June 21, 2018June 21, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A few months back, 20-year old Texan singer and rapper Khalid scored a number one in Australia with his Gen Z high school anthem “Young, Dumb and Broke”. His catchy …

Politics

June 9, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

A DEGREE OF LACKING SELF-AWARENESS – I haven’t thus far blogged about the decision by the Australian National University not to host a course in Western civilisation, proposed by the …

Politics

June 3, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WHY THINGS ARE EXPENSIVE – Well, some of them, at least. Education and health care in particular. Two graphs, the first one from “The Atlantic”, the second one from the …

Happiness / Life / Politics

May 28, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

LOVE ME TENDER, LOVE ME LEFT – Pretty representative: A survey conducted by the student newspaper at Dartmouth College reveals that Democrat students are much more likely than their Republican …

Politics

May 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE WILD ANTI-COLONIAL BOYS (AND GIRLS (AND OTHER 36 GENDERS)) – In the dispatches from the front of the culture wars: Students at The George Washington University (GWU) have launched …

Happiness / Life / Politics

April 28, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

GOD AND MAN (AND EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS) AT YALE – If you walked into the Grace Hopper College courtyard last year, you may have seen a cat on a leash. …

Politics

April 21, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THE LEFT – FROM THE WORKING CLASS TO THE WOKEING CLASS – An interesting graph via Matthew Goodwin: How left-wing parties in France, Britain & the US went from being …

Happiness / Life

April 16, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PRIVATE SCHOOL DATING – When you use your old school tie to tie up your girlfriend to a bed: The world’s first dating app for the privately-educated has launched — …

Politics

March 22, 2018March 22, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

MASS DEBATING – This is a brilliant move: The politics of race and gender have arrived at the University of Sydney’s oldest debating club, which this year will field teams …

Politics

March 13, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

FREEDOM OF SPEECH FOR ME, BUT NOT FOR THEE – If the university-educated young people are our future, our future looks gloomy. From a recently released survey of 3,000 American …

Life

March 12, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

SHOULD UNHAPPY GRADUATES BE ABLE TO SUE UNIVERSITIES – This story, surprisingly, doesn’t involve the Bachelor of Feminist Interpretative Dance: Pok Wong, who also goes by the name Fiona Pok, …

Politics

Activists, supporters, and you – the Chrenk Manifesto

March 5, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Much of the left’s and the whole social justice warriorship’s political project is not at all about achieving equality as an end but merely as a half-way point in a …

Politics

February 27, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

PROFESSOR ACCUSED OF SEMITISM, DEFENDS HERSELF – The tragi-comedy in the letters section of the London Review of Books: There, the feminist American legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon can be found …

Politics

February 10, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

AUSTRALIA DENIAL – So many friends have tagged me in this story that I might as well share: This is Ashley Arnold, a 27-year-old resident of Idaho Falls, Idaho. She’s …

Politics

February 2, 2018 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

THAT’S NOT HOW IT WORKS. THAT’S NOT HOW ANY OF IT WORKS – According to News.com.au, Rihanna shapes Australia’s foreign aid policy: This is what star power looks like. A tweet from …

Politics

November 30, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

WE DON’T NEED NO EDUCATION – Many are called, fewer are chosen: Students are packing in their degrees at the highest levels in a decade, according to gloomy new Federal …

Politics

November 22, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

UNIVERSITIES GONE WILD – For all I know there might be a lot more to the story than the article reports, but as presented it’s pretty damning: Outspoken James Cook …

Politics

Right wing security tax

November 8, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

This is outrageous: University students are being told they will have to pay to hire security guards if they want to run events spruiking conservative ideals — including pro-coal ideas. Student …

Politics

Young people are f***ing morons

November 3, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

Forty-four per cent of Millennials would to prefer to live in a socialist country, 7 per cent in a communist country and 7 per cent in a fascist one. Only …

Politics

Ten things we should be talking about instead of Same Sex Marriage

September 29, 2017 - by Arthur Chrenkoff

It was with great lack of joy that I came back from five weeks in Europe to find out that the public debate in Australia remains exactly in the same …