Tag: Ross Douthat
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Don’t stand by your man
Throw papa off the train! We get that spouses are supposed to be supportive. Stand by your man 🎵, and all that. But the villain — well meaning though she may be — in this norm-busting presidential campaign is less Nurse Ratched and more Edith Galt Wilson. “Doctor” Jill Biden reminds us of President Wilson’s…
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Democrats have deserted the blue collars
The Good Hands-on people Why is Madison more progressive than, say, Wausau? The answer: Class warfare. Not rich versus the poor nor even capitalists versus workers, as the Marxists would have it. The divide demarcates people who work with their minds versus those who work with their hands, NY Times columnist Ross Douthat postulates. It’s…
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A Federalist Society for teachers!
And more choices for school board! At least our progressive … acquaintances recognize the toxicity of critical race theory because they deny teaching it (but if they did it would be O.K.) When you fire a white “positive behavior coach” for trying to defuse a black girl’s classroom tantrum, you’re not just teaching critical race…
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What else can the news screw up?
Why Americans don’t trust the news media! Mark Twain once said if you don’t read the newspapers you are uninformed. If you DO read the newspapers, you are mis-informed. Anti-Trump New York Times columnist Ross Douthat on the kind of news media bias regularly found in his own publication: Because the [Wuhan coronavirus] lab leak theory…