The Downfall of the Ivy League
Shameful Attitude of a Church in Princeton, NJ
Dennis Prager on the Self-Righteously Suicidal West and False Morality
For this week’s Big Ideas with Ben Weingarten podcast, I had nationally syndicated radio host, columnist, author of numerous books, teacher, film producer and co-founder of PragerU, Dennis Prager, on the podcast to discuss among other things:
You can find the episode on iTunes, everywhere else podcasts are found, download the episode directly here or read the transcript here.
We are exactly one month out from the 2016 Presidential Elections. You’d think everything the Right has — and especially the Ricochet podcasts — would be aimed at beating Hillary Clinton — the most corrupt, most dishonest, most dangerous, most foreign-entangled candidate since Obama. But you’d be wrong. In the flagship Ricochet Podcast, Rob Long […]
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Please read “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League” by William Deresiewicz at the New Republic. It’s marred (very slightly) by some socialist murmurings, but mainly its a wonderful attack on the intellectual Ponzi scheme which is elite higher ed today. I’d love to hear from anyone who can find substantive errors in its […]
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In light of recent attempts to delegitimize conservative speech — from the firing of Brandon Eich to the string of attacks on conservative commencement speakers and their subsequent withdrawals, did you ever fantasize about what you would like to say to those college grads if you got the chance? No need to do so any […]
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There’s a Great Future in Plastics
It’s college admissions season, and across the land, there are tears of joy and pain. But mostly pain. This was among the most brutal years ever for acceptances.
The news articles focus on the Ivies, but that doesn’t tell the whole story. Acceptance rates are down pretty much across the board. Private college counselors, who take in upwards of $10,000 to assist with the application process, are now trying to explain to their clients why they (or rather, their children) weren’t accepted anywhere they applied, even their safeties.
