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https://nypost.com/2024/03/25/opinion/dei-is-destroying-america-why-the- classics-are-back-and-other-commentary/

Historian: DEI Is Destroying America
“Diversity/equity/inclusion” is the common thread behind “America’s
current crises,” argues Victor Davis Hanson at American Greatness. DEI has “birthed” resurgent crime and antisemitism. The “military is short”
soldiers, because “white males” fear being called “white supremacists” if
they join. Outcries over “the destruction of enforcement” of immigration
law are “written off as racism.” Nations like China and the Soviet Union suffered enormously after substituting “race, sex, class, and tribal
criteria for meritocracy,” while the smaller, less “materially rich”
United States “emerged to dominate the world.” “Yet here we are in 2024, ignoring the baleful past.” America’s future now “hinges on how quickly we discard DEI orthodoxy” and “judge citizens on their character and talent”
— if it’s not “already too late.”

Ed desk: Why the Classics Are Back
“Teaching kids to think critically and master old books” is making a
comeback, reports The Free Press’ Julia Steinberg. Yes, “this time-honored approach to education has fallen out of favor in recent decades” as “many American schools have prioritized ideology and equal outcomes over
excellence.” The comeback “is driven not only by parents’ growing
realization” of the replacement system’s “academic failures but a sense
that contemporary campus culture lacks much in the way of moral vision.” “Today, more than a million students in the United States, ages five to
18, are receiving a classical education in public or private schools,”
likely because “standards have plummeted, schools have become political battlegrounds” where kids are “taught what to think — not how to think.”

Libertarian: Pols’ Blindness on Social Security
“A Republican budget plan released Wednesday included one of the most
obvious, low-hanging ideas for shoring up Social Security: Raising the eligibility age for benefits from 67 to 69,” notes Reason’s Eric Boehm.
“The White House immediately blasted the proposal,” and “even some
Republicans quickly” threw the “idea under the bus.” Yet if politicians
are “interested in maintaining Social Security as a functioning program,
the real threat isn’t from proposed changes but from doing nothing,” since “benefits will be cut by 23 percent starting in 2033, with further cuts
needed in future years, unless policymakers make changes to the program’s fundamental math.” “If a modest, obvious reform is going to be greeted
with a caterwaul of partisan demagoguery,” that “says more about the
current state of fiscal policy than anything.”

Culture critic: SpaceX Starship Is Awesome
“Of all the things created by humans, a rocket heading for space is among
the most spectacular,” cheers Mark R. Whittington at The Hill after the
recent test launch of SpaceX’s Starship. Yes, after a first-stage
explosion left the craft disintegrating before it could splash down, the
FAA ruled “that the test ended in a mishap” so “Elon Musk’s launch company
must satisfy the regulators before authorizing a fourth test launch.”
Still: “The Starship’s third test was a success not because it met all of
its objectives but because it advanced the day when the largest rocket
ship that has ever flown will change the face of space travel forever.”
For a new generation, “Starship, for what it is doing and what it promises
to do, is an awesome vehicle.” We’re not returning to space “out of a fit
of nostalgia” but “to make a more glorious future, better than the
present.”

Iconoclast: Owens Goes Off the Deep End
“Candace Owens is living proof that anti-Zionism is a gateway drug to anti-Semitism,” cracks Spiked’s Brendan O’Neill. She’s “tumbling in real-
time down the rabbit hole of Jew-focused conspiracy theory.” Starting “in November, she slammed Israel for its ‘genocide’ in Gaza,” and she’s also “noisily bemoaned the ‘political Jews’ and the ‘DC Jew[s]’ who play the
racism card ‘to basically silence people’ ” before going on to like “a
tweet that asked Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the eccentric author and
broadcaster and one of her keenest critics, if he was ‘drunk on Christian
blood again’.” In all, “Owens seems to agree with her ostensible arch-
enemies in right-on Gen Z that Jews are a ‘class of oppressors’.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

Conversation:

The Voice of Sanity
1 day ago

Victor Davis Hanson is a national treasure. (Yes, I know, imported, but still...)

Candace Owens, not so much.

El Gordo
1 day ago

I am a state university professor. The humanites are nothing more than
left wing activisim and propaganda mills today. Students are voting with
their feet, humanities enrollment is down massively and many programs are
being shut down as a result.

E Brent
1 day ago

College level "humanities" are the final honing facility of the social
rage activist that was seeded and spawned in the k-12 grades.

Riley Walsh
18 hours ago

The humanities are for those who are not capable of anything else.

The same can be said about education majors.

Ron Stryker
1 day ago

I think Professor Hanson is onto something. A country that erects a
statue honoring the drug-addicted criminal George Floyd and removes a
statue of Founding Father and author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson is destroying itself. Glorifying a dangerous thug while shaming one of the great philosophical thinkers of the 18th century truly
has us heading back toward the Dark Ages.

Mike Dante
1 hour ago

I know in Philly they removed a statue of Columbus and replaced it with a statue of Saint George Floyd - the drug addicted criminal who did less
than zero in his life. This is what the country has come to honoring
criminals and demonizing heroes


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