BIPOC is Cultural Appropriation. When Lefties use the term “people of color,” they fall subject to their own indictment of “cultural appropriation,” and in a particularly ironic way. The original “people of color” were the mixed-race Creoles of Saint-Domingue de l’ouest, today known as Haiti; they were the shopkeeper class and bore the French moniker, […]
ON IMAGINATION. – This is a response to the recent dialogue between Mr. Rachel and Mr. Whittle on the topic of imagination. The word imagination has for me a wholly positive connotation. I would describe the liberal fixation on “racism” or “climate change,” not as imagination but as fixation. Imagination is an expansive function of […]
Practical achievements often have a symbolic meaning aside from and beyond their engineering efficiency. A few days ago in Boca Chica, Texas, Elon Musk’s Starship N15 took off, rose to its test altitude, glided back toward its launch complex, and made a successful soft landing in the vertical position – without the “spontaneous disassembly” that […]
I taught college – on English faculties – for over thirty years, beginning as a fellow in the English Department during my graduate student phase at UCLA in the 1980s and retiring in May of 2020 after a twenty-year tour of duty at SUNY Oswego in Upstate New York. I was never a liberal and […]