Higher Ed Confidence

Seminaries of the Death Cult

Americans' confidence in institutions of higher learning has hit an all-time low according to a new Gallup poll. Americans’ confidence in higher education has fallen to 36%, sharply lower than in two prior readings in 2015 (57%) and 2018 (48%). In addition to the 17% of U.S. adults who have…
July 13, 20234 Comments
The Tangled Web of Tony Pellicano

The Tangled Web of Tony Pellicano

Hollywood has its own intrigues that rival international espionage, as this writer learned while pulling a thread left in yesterday's comments by author JD Cowan. [Director John] McTiernan’s career is fascinating. Everything he did was fantastic until the 2000s hit and he got entangled with the feds after his producers…
July 12, 20231 Comment
Get a Life 1990

Get a Life

One unintended consequence of internet search algorithms' increasing uselessness for finding what you want is sometimes finding what you didn't know you wanted. For instance, the other day I was wrestling with YouTube in search of some obscure clip I was looking for. Instead, YT's search engine spat out some…
February 20, 20237 Comments
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The Friendless Generation

The sexual revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for men. And not just in the way your brain instantly sprang to. Sometime in the last 30 years, men pretty much stopped having friends. The real male retreat from society is husbands vanishing into man caves when not serving…
February 16, 20239 Comments
Watterson The Mysteries

Watterson’s Return

Almost thirty years after retiring his beloved comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, artist Bill Watterson returns with a strange new project. The Mysteries is a new 72-page book by Watterson and fellow artist John Kascht are creating what is described as "a fable for grown-ups." Scheduled to be published by…
February 15, 20232 Comments
Vellee

1940s Babies

Loyal readers of this blog know that I've been combating the prevalent Madison Avenue-concocted generational model for years, along with fellow authors David Stewart and JD Cowan. Much of our understanding of what, say a Zommer or a Millennial is comes from ad agencies who draw arbitrary lines between cohorts…
February 1, 20239 Comments
Nick Fuentes Is Back

Promise Kept

The whole Elon Musk - Twitter saga elicited a lot of comment. From the beginning you had people saying it was all a grift or a publicity stunt. I said last year that Musk's purchase of Twitter would be completed in the fall, and it would take until early in…
January 24, 20235 Comments
Japanese PM

Now or Never for Nihon

We've covered Japan's demographic woes here before. Some people scoffed at the ancient island nation's peril. But now her own prime minister is warning the time to address Nihon's population crisis is "now or never." Japanese Prime minister Fumio Kishida pledged on Monday to take urgent steps to tackle the…
January 23, 202312 Comments
Male Suicide

Losing Our Religion

It's been pointed out before on this blog that irreligiosity kills. Now, a new paper adds to the mountain of evidence that not just individual belief, but public group worship, is essential to one's wellbeing. Hat tip to authors David V. Stewart and Alexander Hellene. So-called deaths of despair such…
January 18, 20238 Comments
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The Gen Y – Millennial Gap

A commenter on yesterday's post writes: I don’t quite know what to say. I’m a millennial, and one who has hardly heard a song from the 80s (That I was aware of) but when I heard that last song on your list I felt… Something. It wasn’t nostalgia, it was……
January 17, 20239 Comments