Lewis M. Andrews, Ph.D. – It was Winston Churchill who once said, “You can always count on America to do the right thing, after it has exhausted all other options.” I don’t know about all the other options, but when it comes to progressive ideology and its various manifestations — net zero environmentalism, Critical Race Theory, anticolonialism, DEI hiring programs — the country does seem to be gradually coming to its senses.
Signs of a recovery first showed up during Covid, when parents of school-age children got to see internet broadcasts of their kids’ classes and had to confront the extent to which a combination of woke ideology and low academic standards had come to substitute for a traditional K-12th grade education.
J. B. Shurk – Will our historical era be remembered as the “Age of Fakes”? We have fake news, fake meat, fake elections, fake genders, fake vaccines, fake budgets, fake democracy, fake truths, fake hate, fake Russian collusion, fake insurrections, fake climate emergencies, fake freedoms, fake outrage, fake speech crimes, fake money, fake justice, fake intellects, fake women, fake borders, fake wars, and even a fake president. In some ways, it is a very silly time to be alive.
Sean Adl-Tabatabai – Covid is not the only virus sweeping the West. According to experts, being ‘woke’ might actually be a type of ‘virus’ that infects the mind and impairs a person’s personality.
Bob Unruh – The old saying is music “can soothe the savage beast,” but who knew those sheets of paper with staves and notes and key signatures and time signatures and more actually have the power to “slap” some people in the face?