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Andy Divine on ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’. Old Socialist comments
Posted on September 21, 2018 by stephenkmacksd
Andy Divine doesn’t begin his latest essay here, but it is framed by the authorial duo of Haidt and Lukianoff and the title of their book uses an expression, that anyone who lived through the American ’60’s will recognise, as … Continue reading →
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Greg Lukianoff is co-author, with Jonathan Haidt, of “The Coddling”:These political hacks shamelessly borrowed from Bloom’s “The Closing of the American Mind” to promote Themselves & Sales!
Posted on September 25, 2025 by stephenkmacksd
Political Observer. stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 23, 2025 Editor: Greg Lukianoff is co-author, with Jonathan Haidt, of “The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure.” These political hacks, moderled themselves after … Continue reading →
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@TLS reflects the politics of The Times: Carol Tavris genuflects to Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott’s ‘The Canceling of The American Mind’.
Posted on February 10, 2024 by stephenkmacksd
Political Cynic comments upon ‘The Sky Is Falling Political Melodrama’ . Carol Tavris reviews two books for The Times Literary Supplement of February 9, 2024. I’ll focus on one of her enthusiasm: ‘The Canceling of The American Mind: How cancel culture undermines … Continue reading →
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Nathan Pinkoski on Fukuyama v. Fukuyama: he takes his models from a host of would be ‘Political Moralists’, high/low. American Christians are the natural inheritors of Johnathan Edwards.
Posted on June 16, 2023 by stephenkmacksd
Queer Atheist (Thank you : @DouthatNYT) MAY 13, 2023 The final paragraph of Nathan Pinkoski essay about Americas most notorious intellectual charlatan, that term is old but descriptive of Fukuyama as Political/Moral Prophet: in sum it doesn’t take much to … Continue reading →
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Re-Posting: Old Socialist asks: Do you have the patience, for Anne Applebaum’s 7,896 word essay on ‘‘the internet mob, the office mob, or the peer-group mob’?
Posted on February 3, 2025 by stephenkmacksd
stephenkmacksd.com/ Sep 01, 2021 stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 31, 2025 Anne Applebaum’s re-published essay: ‘The New Puritans’ from October 2021. That is framed by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne. Note that brevity is not an attribute of Neo-Cons: exhausting the readers patience, and short circuiting … Continue reading →
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Jonathan Haidt is professional Political Hysteric. He is the natural sucessor to Allen Bloom’s ‘The Closing’ with more effective Public Realations, wedded to rampant opptunism.
Posted on January 8, 2025 by stephenkmacksd
Political Observer comments, briefly! stephenkmacksd.com/ Jan 05, 2025 Recall that Haidt used a riff on Bloom’s ‘The Closing of the American Mind’ to sell his ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’. Note his title as ‘A professor of ethical leadership at New York University’ call … Continue reading →
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The Avatars of David Brooks latest scolding, are the misbegotten trio of Philip Rieff, Christopher Lasch and Tom Wolfe.
Posted on August 12, 2023 by stephenkmacksd
Philosophical Apprentice comments. The framing of this latest David Brooks essay, in which he ponders ‘the decline of the American psyche’ what ever that might be? What are the credentials that Brooks offers The Reader? His long apprenticeship to Wm. F. Buckley … Continue reading →
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On the Self-Mythologizing of Bret Stephens.
Posted on June 17, 2023 by stephenkmacksd
Philosophical Apprentice collects some of the evocative dross of his ‘Class Day Ceremony’. JUN 8, 2023 Stephens always plays the victim: This is a speech about speaking your mind when other people don’t want you to. To those of you … Continue reading →
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Jordan Peterson and Warren Farrell on The Boy Crisis and Gender Politics. Queer Atheist comments.
Posted on April 16, 2021 by stephenkmacksd
The viewer/reader is confronted with Catch Phrases masquerading as descriptive of Thought. E.g., ‘The Closing of the American Mind’, ‘The Clash of Civilizations’ , ‘The End of History and the Last Man’, ‘Tenured Radicals’, ‘Illiberal Education’ , ‘The Right Nation’, … Continue reading →
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Considering two essay by Janan Ganesh. Old Socialist comments
Posted on December 2, 2020 by stephenkmacksd
The reader can look to Mr. Ganesh’s essay of November 27, 2020 for his latest rhetorical strategy: Headline: What the dream hoarders get wrong about parenting Sub-headline: The rich screen their children from the hardships that form genius https://www.ft.com/content/b3b92ba4-f6e7-4fd1-bc61-6a73272e8b49 It’s … Continue reading →
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