“Dumbing down” is a concept first applied to education. It’s the too-often-demonstrated reality that, if students find their lessons too hard, educators opt to make the lessons dumber, because it’s easier than trying to force students to think harder. But “dumbing down” has come to be deployed across
Information Opinion One of the paradoxical aspects of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency was the strong criticism he received from the Anti-Slavery League (of all people!). Many members of that league had earned a good living and received a great deal of attention, which was unlikely to otherwise be directed towards
Anyone who thinks that women aren’t being erased from the public sphere is just not paying attention. In a particularly egregious example, a recent awareness campaign for ovarian cancer featured… drag queens. That’s right, men in misogynistic blackface were the public face of an illness that can by
Apparently nobody ever explained to Charlotte Kirby of Cambridge what “unisex” means. The British event manager was, she says, shocked — shocked! — when she used a unisex change room in an outlet of fashion retailer Primark, and two men walked in. The event manager, 25, took to her TikTok @charlottemkirby to
In a 1972 cartoon, graphic novel master Will Eisner satirised the hippy “Underground Comix”, portraying them as a bunch of low-brow, scatological neanderthals, accusing each of other of “Establishment Tendencies”. But, in a corner of the cartoon, one of the drooling Morlocks scrawls, “I have just discovered a horrible thing
As I reported recently, the dismantling of the Tavistock clinic in the UK is just another sign that the tide is turning on the gender wars. The Stonewaffen is suffering yet another defeat: their right to bully and cancel is slowly, quietly, being withdrawn. And now, The Guardian is turning
Talk about ‘Simpsons did it!’ In one episode of the venerable TV show – back in the halcyon days before it jumped the shark – Springfield Elementary tries to empower the girls by separating them from the boys. In the girls’ ‘maths’ class, Lisa is dismayed that the maths lesson” consists of
Truth and activism rarely go together. In fact, as ex-Muslim activist Sarah Haider recently pointed out, rigorous truth-seeking is anathema to activists. Because an activist’s primary motivation is to advance whatever their goal is: if the facts contradict that goal, then flagrant disregard for the truth is their only
And, just like that, all the “transgender” athletes melted away like snowflakes. In one of the biggest rebukes of the nonsensical notion that men can become women just by saying so, Fina, the world government body for swimming, has ruled that “transgender” athletes will be barred from competing in women’
Kimberly Ells mercatornet.com Kimberly Ells is the author of The Invincible Family: Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win and is a policy advisor for Family Watch International. Matt Walsh’s documentary What is a Woman? exposes the fact that many people, at least
Australian Olympic gold medallist Emily Seebohm has welcomed FINA’s decision to restrict the participation of transgender athletes in elite women’s swimming, saying the sport could now move on with certainty. Newshub Read more here. Discuss it on The BFD. If you would like to access exclusive Member content
As we count down to an impending mid-term bloodbath for the Democrats, get ready for wall-to-wall coverage of the 6 January show trials. Trying to drum up a silly protest that descended into a riot is all the Dems have got. On every normal measure, they’re toast. The economy
Carolyn Moynihan mercatornet.com Carolyn Moynihan is the former deputy editor of MercatorNet Warning Long read: 1880 words Fifty years ago, United States Supreme Court judges invented a right to abortion for all America after feminists (and not a few men) insisted that, for women to stand as equal citizens
As I’ve said often enough, I read the likes of the Guardian so that you don’t have to. Ditto, Jacobin. But there’s plenty of reason to listen to and read people who are on almost the complete opposite political pole to your own. As Mill said, if
Helen M. Alvaré mercatornet.com Helen M. Alvaré Helen Alvaré is the Robert A. Levy Endowed Chair in Law and Liberty at Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where she teaches and writes in the areas of family law, and law and religion. Today, nearly 50
