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Wither Representative Democracy?
Fenster writes: Quillette magazine is always thought provoking and what good would a thought provoking publication be if you didn’t disagree with it from time to time? Here’s a piece from Quillette defending representative democracy and criticizing the populist urge … Continue reading
Grammar and Culture
Fenster writes: Thaddeus Kozinski asks the perennial question: Can Studying Grammar Save Our Culture? Hint, he is writing for The Imaginative Conservative so I think his answer will be yes, don’t you? And I think I agree with him. Don’t … Continue reading
Posted in Education
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Reflections on the Revolution in Hollywood
Fenster writes: We have serious excesses of male power and energy on display. And we have a pushback in which can be seen some of the wisdom of Madame du Deffand when she told Voltaire that women are never stronger … Continue reading
Posted in Media, Personal reflections, Politics and Economics, The Good Life, Uncategorized
Tagged Gender roles, Weinstein
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It’s a New Day in America!
Fenster writes: At a time of rancor and divisiveness it is good to remember: it’s a new day in America! It’s always a new day in America. America . . . it’s a new day! President Frank Underwood A new … Continue reading
Brazile 2020?
Fenster writes: Is anyone thinking as I am that there is something a little–odd? revealing?–about how Brazile is handling this affair? She didn’t have to start it up and surely knew she was punching people with power. Her old buddy … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Economics
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Our Mr. Brooks
Fenster writes: David Brooks has long vacillated between culture mode and political mode and sometimes he splits the difference, as he does here. When politics is used as a cure for spiritual and social loneliness, it’s harder to win people … Continue reading
Posted in Politics and Economics
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Juxtaposin’: Tulsi Gabbard
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Inside a Bubble
Fenster writes: If you find yourself in a hole the best advice is to stop digging. What if you suspect you are in a bubble? How would you know you are even in one? And if you determine you are … Continue reading
Wolcott, New York
Fenster writes: For the upstate NY devotees here. Wolcott is a small town in upstate New York, on Lake Ontario between Rochester and Syracuse. It is weathered and somewhat beaten down looking but not yet beat. There are some handsome … Continue reading
The Production of Billionaires
Fenster writes: So here are the colleges that, according to Forbes, “produce” the most billionaires. The “produce” word suggests cause and effect, with the hint that if your kid can get in ze will absorb some of that magic pixie … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Politics and Economics
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