Unca Darrell

MAY 18, 2020 / A time capsule: journalists or activists?

Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (CJS) recently asked for my money. Here's the lede of the appeal:

FIFTY YEARS AGO, my classmates and I would have shared one of the proudest moments of our lives -- graduating from Columbia Journalism School. Instead, we'd gone on strike . . .

MAY 12, 2020 / Kira Davis on one bowl of cereal at a time

IF WE'RE GOING TO BE USING the word “hero” to describe anyone who does the hard things to help others, then we must share that label with the mothers and fathers who save society every day, one hug, one bowl of cereal at a time, one vow at a time. If heroism is about sacrifice for something greater, then . . .

JUNE 4, 2020 / "Rioting is fun": Theodore Dalrymple on riot and barbarism

OUR RECENT RIOTS testify to the power of barbarism against civilization. While journalists and professors . . .