On the Delights of Reading Old Magazines
I recently had the pleasure of perusing a number of old magazines from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1918. They included such great monthly periodicals as Scribner’s, Harper’s, McClure’s,...
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Posts by Sam Blumenfeld
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America
Charlotte Iserbyt has put her great exposé of the dumbing-down agenda of American education on the Internet, so that anyone can now read it and download it free of...
The Egyptian Revolution
The problem with the Egyptian Revolution, which is being acted out in the streets of Cairo and Alexandria with huge demonstrations, is that no one knows what the revolutionaries...
Some Revealing Data from the 2010 Census
With the help of several blogs and websites, I’ve been able to gather some revealing data from the Census of 2010 — data which, in general, should cheer every...
The Facebook Phenomenon
As everyone knows, Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old originator of Facebook, was chosen by Time magazine to be its 2010 Person of the Year. The reason is obvious. In 2004,...
Turmoil in Egypt
It’s much too early to say what will be the outcome of the present popular uprising in Egypt against Mubarak’s dictatorship. But there are several scenarios that can be...
Race to the Top for More Federal Control
Race to the Top, which President Obama glowingly spoke of in his dismal State of the Union address, is a $4.35 billion U.S. Department of Education boondoggle to get...
The Imposter at the Rostrum?
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011, a man by the name of Barack Hussein Obama took his place at the rostrum before the two houses of Congress to deliver his...
Dr. Orton’s Great Discovery
February 2011 will mark the 82nd year since the publication of Dr. Samuel T. Orton’s critical article in the February 1929 issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology. Its...
God Is a Salesman
I picked up this little book the other day in a discount bookstore. Intrigued by the title, God Is a Salesman, I started thumbing through it and came across this...
NPR: Entertaining Our Way to Socialism
In a way, the history of National Public Radio, now known simply as NPR, follows the slow, incremental creep of America toward socialism. Its very existence, in fact, serves...
Washington Should Not Bail Out States
The U.S. Congress seems to love debt, or else our government would not have so much of it. Indeed, our present debt ceiling is $14.3 trillion, and there is...
How Insane is America?
Michael Savage asserts that liberalism is a form of insanity, and I agree with him. Considering the reaction of liberals to the attempted assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, it...
A Spanish View of Europe’s Dilemma
The following short article was published in a Spanish Internet magazine, Gentiuno, on November 21, 2004. Written by Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez, it has been widely circulated on the Internet...
Reading the Constitution
The senseless and horrific killings in Tucson on January 9 by a demented young man have diverted the nation's attention from the positive changes taking place in Washington and...
The President in Tucson
President Barack Obama went to Tucson on January 12th to take part in the memorial service held at the University of Arizona at Tucson to express the nation’s solidarity...
The President in Tucson
[Edited by J] President Barack Obama went to Tucson on January 12 to take part in the memorial service held at the University of Arizona at Tucson...
Who Wrote Shakespeare? An Exercise in Critical Thinking
Educators and homeschoolers these days are teaching their students how to exercise their critical thinking skills. Â In other words, students must be able to look at a problem or...
The Shooting Rampage in Arizona
It was obvious that no sooner did the media learn of the horrible shooting rampage on Saturday, January 9th, in Tucson, Arizona, that seriously wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and...
Is Compulsory School Attendance Compatible With a Free Society?
Is America still a free country? We like to think so, even with ObamaCare. Yes, we can get into a car and drive wherever we want. We can go...