Archive for the ‘Social Engineering’ Category

Racial Affirmative Action Failed

November 1 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Social Engineering

WSJ -10/27/2017 By John Katzman And Steve Cohen We disagree in principle about affirmative action. One of us, a frequent fundraiser for Democratic candidates, believes that it’s better for colleges to have a diverse student body that more faithfully reflects the nation; and that we need to counterbalance the impact of poverty on education and opportunity, which often means giving special consideration... Read more

Targeting Down Syndrome

May 28 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Europe, Social Engineering

=== WSJ – 5/25/2017 By Sohrab Ahmari Paris You can learn a lot about a society by paying attention to what it censors. The Soviet Union went to great lengths to block the truth about freedom and prosperity in the West. Today China’s ruling Communists suppress historical memory of their crimes, above all the Tiananmen Square massacre, while the censors in my... Read more

Where did today’s Campus Culture Come From?

March 29 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Losing Freedom, Ruling Class, Social Engineering

No one should be surprised… ======= WSJ By Crispin Sartwell We are witnessing the second great era of speech repression in academia, the first coming during the “culture wars” of the late 1980s and early ’90s. One force behind the new wave is a theory of truth, or a picture of reality, developed the first time around. This theory, which we might call “linguistic... Read more

What’s Happened To The University?

November 15 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Education, Losing Freedom, Social Engineering

Wow… ====== WSJ 11/10/2016   By Frank Furedi Rancorous trends such as microaggressions, safe spaces, trigger warnings and intellectual intolerance have taken hold at universities with breathtaking speed. Last year’s controversy over Halloween costumes at Yale led to the departure of two respected faculty members, and this year made the fall festival a flashpoint of conflict at campuses across the country. The recent explosion... Read more

100,000 Missing Women – Part 1

November 29 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Social Engineering

By Geeta Anand And Jaeyeon Woo SEOUL—A cultural preference for male children has cost Asia dearly. Count up all the girls who were never born because of selective abortion, victims of infanticide and females who died from neglect and there are upwards of 100 million women missing on the continent today by some estimates. Not just a human-rights catastrophe, it... Read more

100,000 Missing Women – Part 2

November 29 | Posted by mrossol | Abortion, Social Engineering

WSJ 11/28/2015 By Geeta Anand And Jaeyeon Woo Somvir Sain, 38, a driver for a politician in Haryana, a north Indian state with one of the country’s highest sex ratios, has been looking for a wife for 12 years, but in vain. Neither he nor his three brothers have found brides, he says. He has even traveled to several nearby poorer states... Read more

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