A student who witnessed the incident tells me this anecdote about another course he is taking.
One of his classmates was finding it difficult to accept his professor’s line that people are whatever they “identify” as being. The classmate asked, “So if someone decides he’s a refrigerator, then he’s a refrigerator?”
Interview by Karina Macosko of Academic Influence, February, 2022
Interview by Jed Macosko of Academic Influence, February, 2022
Interview by Marianna Orlandi of the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, March, 2022
By now everyone knows what canceling is. Even so, there is a tendency to play it down. Many people who went to college back in the day can’t really believe the strength of university cancel culture. They don’t doubt that canceling happens, but they think it must be the exception rather than the norm.
The CDC says we may be getting closer to a something a little more like normal (whatever getting closer may mean). You’d better keep your fingers crossed, because in the meantime, other authorities are warning that in view of the latest, latest, latest kind of Covid-19, we may not be ready even yet. It seems that some people just can’t let go.
The following Op-Ed of mine ran in The Epoch Times on 16 February 2022. I am grateful to the editors for allowing me to repost the text here for readers who do not subscribe.
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My new book How and How Not to Be Happy is published TODAY by Regnery.
Yesterday you couldn’t learn how and how not to be happy, but today you can! Is that cool or what?
