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Dirty Harry [Clint Eastwood] doesn’t think Obama is a leader for what it’s worth.

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This is the dark side of a nation that has become too dependent on cradle-to-grave social programs. Are these youth protesting the unfair rule of an oppressive government or even a disputed election?. Of course not the correct answer is none of the above, the right to retire is the burning issue for many young people in France today.

More to come about this later.

Universities no longer the idyllic playpen of Plato and the philosophers where thought flowers and grows. Sadly  the institution by demand has shifted away from focusing on important subjects as civics and history, basic touchstones to any well-rounded education. Instead we are left with a population that professes to know more information but can comprehend less about its own cultural past. Check out this great column from the Wall Street Journal

Source Wall Street Journal 

Meanwhile, leading history departments have emphasized social history and issues of race, class and gender at the expense of constitutional history, diplomatic history and military history.
Neither professors of political science nor of history have made a priority of instructing students in the founding principles of American constitutional government. Nor have they taught about the contest between the progressive vision and the conservative vision that has characterized American politics since Woodrow Wilson (then a political scientist at Princeton) helped launch the progressive movement in the late 19th century by arguing that the Constitution had become obsolete and hindered democratic reform.


Then there are the proliferating classes in practical ethics and moral reasoning. These expose students to hypothetical conundrums involving individuals in surreal circumstances suddenly facing life and death decisions, or present contentious public policy questions and explore the range of respectable progressive opinions for resolving them. Such exercises may sharpen students’ ability to argue. They do little to teach about self-government.




They certainly do not teach about the virtues, or qualities of mind and character, that enable citizens to shoulder their political responsibilities and prosper amidst the opportunities and uncertainties that freedom brings. Nor do they teach the beliefs, practices and associations that foster such virtues and those that endanger them.


Those who doubt that the failings of higher education in America have political consequences need only reflect on the quality of progressive commentary on the tea party movement. Our universities have produced two generations of highly educated people who seem unable to recognize the spirited defense of fundamental American principles, even when it takes place for more than a year and a half right in front of their noses.

A new book Bloodlands,  looks at the ties and similarities between two of the most recognizable names in history Hitler and Stalin. These two maniacal leaders are notably  intertwined  in the bloody history of 20th-century Europe. Even if your post-Marxist professor doesn’t think so.

The economist
“Hitler and Stalin thus shared a certain politics of tyranny: they brought about catastrophes, blamed the enemy of their choice, and then used the death of millions to make the case that their policies were necessary or desirable. Each of them had a trans formative Utopia, a group to be blamed when its realisation proved impossible, and then a policy of mass murder that could be proclaimed as a kind of ersatz victory.”

Interview with the author