1. "...any positive reform of education?" (Kandybarre - why don't YOU do something about it? And, see his article on New College of Florida.)
2. "Rule by the crude and vulgar" (uhhhhh...... Bill Clinton? Hillary?)
3. "data shows that..... adults too are becoming stupider by the year." (You failed in punctuation and grammar. Maybe you are becoming stupider, too?)
4. "...i don't think malfeasance at the DOE..." (The DOE has overseen public education since 1980 so it would have been responsible for the education of our older generations.)
5. "...barely a post past a single-digit word count." (Some people are just more concise than you are.)
6. "...does involve some planting after the fire." (Do you expect Mr. Rufo to solve ALL problems; past, present and future? What are YOU doing to help solve problems?)
nice little face you've got at the end there. i thought those were stupid when they first came out, and i was thirteen. i like them now, though, because they make it easy to tell whose brains have leaked out their ears.
1. i'm not allowed in "left academia" because i know there are two immutable sexes, and i'm not allowed in "right academia" because i have half a brain.
2. try as they might, they never caught bill with toilet paper on *his* shoe. by the way, when your only response is "tu quoque," you're admitting i'm right.
3. there is nothing wrong with the grammar in that sentence, lmao. do you struggle with more than one clause?
4. you didn't understand what i said. american adults, the fully-grown-already ones, are literally becoming stupider *in their adulthood.* they are becoming worse at reading and math *as adults.* this is a new phenomenon. it's happening because of phone- and internet-induced brainrot.
5. cogiteas.
6. i'm one of the few to have a real education and i continue to exist. do you need anything answered? ask away. dico a lingua latina - as i said - and i know a thing or two about chemistry, too. or if you'd like me the twofold sorwe of troilus to tellen, i can oblige eke.
Thanks, Halle Burton, or kandybarre. Someone here is a little high on themselves. Yay for you for having an extensive education and a grasp of Latin, chemistry, but you should tap into the social graces. My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye: It's obvious you are here to just stoke the fires. End of story.
Damn, haven't seen so much Latin since my last high school Latin class over 60 years ago. Guess I'm one of those adults getting stupider by the year as I remember little from that class
On point 4, I must introduce you to findings published in the NEJM and others, elsewhere, that strongly indicate a similar phenomenon associated with repeated exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in light of “let it rip” public health policies around the globe.
"Last term, President Corcoran announced the basic structure of the new curriculum, balancing the concepts of logos and techne, beginning with a mandatory humanities course on Homer’s Odyssey and continuing with courses in the applied arts, statistics, and data science."
this reads like a statue head on twitter wrote it. we have here the classic combination of shallow veneration of totemic classical objects like the odyssey mixed with utter disregard for the creative energies that brought those things into existence.
if you can't see "data science" for the grift it is, you're getting grufted. the real thing is called "computer science" and it is in fact classical logic.
you morons don't even know how big of a joke you are. reading the odyssey IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION is your big return to classicism? i could die laughing.
non graecus sum, sed dico a lingua latina. si non dices, baculum habeo -- cogitasne?
OK, I thought this was some type of joke; a pseudo-intellectual who doesn't know the basic rules of capitalization criticizing the writing of others. But now you have trampled upon my field: STEM. Data science is not computer science by any stretch of the imagination. That is a whopper. Data science overlaps the most with statistics. It has very little to do with computer science. Please stick to what you know.
Absolutely. Halle Burton/kandybarre is way over her/his depth. Claiming that computer science is the same as data science is like saying a skilled pottery maker is the same as being a master chef. Computers are simply tools for data science like they are many other things.
let me lead you through a little logic. first - surely data science is not entirely the same thing as statistics. otherwise, we would just say "statistics."
what, then, is the difference between "statistics" and "data science"? surely it has something to do with computers - otherwise, as i said, we would simply say "statistics."
now, it *could* be that people are saying "data science" to sound fancy, when what they really mean is "statistics" - but that would just be silly, and surely isn't the case.
it could also be the case that "data science" is a specialized subset of the general field of statistics - but in that case, the teaching of "data science" should surely be an advanced subject that *follows* the teaching of statistics. doing otherwise is like teaching "neuroscience" to undergraduates who have yet to complete a degree in general biology -- though i've heard some places claim to do that too, as retarded as it sounds.
suffice it to say, mr corcoran has gone wrong somewhere - which doesn't mean i'm right everywhere, but he's the university president, not me.
"Lead me through a little logic", right. Can you sound any more condescending? Might want to lighten up on that.
Data science was around long before computing engines, and it's not simply statistics, either. Statistics are only ANOTHER tool used to analyze, organize, and validate data.
Data has been gathered and analyzed for thousands of years, ever since people figured out that knowing the results of more things happening gave a truer picture of reality than a few anecdotes.
Which is why the vast majority of statistical tools were devised long before modern computers. Even the abacus was used to do statistical analyses, followed by dozens of mechanical computation tools, culminating in the mechanical slide rule.
These were still used just prior to electronic calculators. I still have one or two that I used in engineering school many decades ago, and bet if really pressed I might remember how to use most of the slide rule functions. Good things to have if batteries run out.
The point here is that data science is NOT computer science, NOR is it statistics. It predates both, and both statistics and computer science are tools developed to support data science. If one realizes that "data science" encompasses applications ranging from language-processing LL AI models to image processing or autonomous navigation, to statistical-driven sports and stock market analysis, it's clearer what the field really spans.
Data science is actually the basis for all quantitative science, meaning all modern science.
by the way, folks watching, you can see here a classic signature of grifters defending the grift -- they're very eager to tell me what this "data science" is not, but they are not so eager to volunteer a definition of what it *is.*
i thought "trust the experts, don't ask questions" was supposed to be a leftist thing?
then teach statistics and computer science, not some bastard hybrid which gives the foundation to understand neither in any real way.
teaching "data science" to freshman undergraduates is like trying to teach them "art history" when they know next to nothing of either art or history.
if you'd like to be trampled on further, and with more force, let me know, and i'll call my common-law-father-in-law. (he has a wikipedia page!)
SIDICEASNEMELEGEREALTIORCAVEMODOSPERANDI because capitalization is a mere artefact of typography, fatuus. can you believe romans really legevint epistulas written so? gosh, they must have had *two* brains.
I've heard ideas written in other languages still translate to English. Being limited to English and Sesame Street Spanish makes it hard to verify but it sounds legit.
The Iliad and The Odyssey were written in Ancient Greek and the Aeneid in Latin. The Bible was originally written in the ancient languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Beowulf was written in Old English. Knowledge of how many languages is required for a big return to classicism?
What was the trajectory of New College of Florida before Rufo got involved compared to now? I vaguely remember something about some city somewhere not being built in a day.
>Knowledge of how many languages is required for a big return to classicism?
if little old me has latin, chaucer's english, and henryson's scots, and i didn't take anything relevant past high school, surely our "new scholars" can manage at least one old tongue in college. urbem structo - structis sed suburbias. ubi non voleas, volabam, et altior.
1. You didn't respond to my second question, so I'll repeat it: What was the trajectory of New College of Florida before Rufo got involved compared to now?
2. Learn all those languages on your own?
3. If not, where did you learn all those languages? If you learned them during K-12 then that says as much about K-12 as it does about New College of Florida. Also, if you learned them K-12, are you out championing K-12 to teach classical languages?
4. What was the purpose of your Latin response when I told you I didn't know Latin?
To look smart? To make me look dumb? Something else? To put obstacles between what you mean and who you're talking to? Your classical education teach you to spew Latin at people you know don't speak it? Or did you pick that up somewhere else? Or maybe you just skipped kindergarten?
Interwebs translated as your Latin to: I built a city - but built suburbs. Where you don't want, I flew, and higher. That's likely only a little off.
The interwebs told me to tell you:
1. Spouting Latin isn't the party trick it used to be, and
2. Omne quod coacte fit, amaritudo est animae.
3. Rufo probably isn't going to look to you for advice.
4. Your Substack has two subscribers, but there's potential to double that.
1. probably bad. like most colleges. not sure how that's relevant. am i defending the teaching of gender studies and other psychological nonsense? i certainly am not. but when you rip up weeds, they simply grow back, unless you plant something durable in their place.
2. i took latin in high school and read the aeneid in latin under the tutelage of an old harvard man. i am very grateful for that privilege. the rest i managed myself, yes. i don't use "youtube" or "instagram" so i have a lot of time. also, you don't have to really be "taught" the latter two -- if everything you read is a few years older than the last thing, you get back to chaucer eventually.
3. see 2. yes, i am championing k-12 to teach classical languages. that's part & parcel of my point: you can't take a bunch of moronic undergraduates and have them read modern translations of the odyssey and expect much of a result. as they say in science, "garbage in, garbage out." the "great books" junk is lipstick on a pig when half of them are so poorly served by k-12 that they can't even read.
the interwebs told me to tell you and president corcoran that the "new scholars" are just gonna use fricking sparknotes for your special marcus aurelius big brain odyssey class. and they're gonna do their assignments with chatgpt, like they will for every other damn class. you aren't even really changing the set dressing, merely playing with the drapes.
you would be *very* surprised who looks to me for advice - but the reason they look to me is that, like cato, i just want to farm. so far, anyway. people change. have you read addison's tragedy on the subject? the founding fathers' favorite play, don't you know. (and all in the king's english.) i wonder why that isn't in the new "conservative" curriculum? personally i suspect it's the bit about blasting men who owe their greatness to their country's ruin.
The department of education like any federal bureaucracy that has billions to allocate has infected the state education departments with pet leftist requirements as a condition on funding. This has watered down true education so much that we're now incredibly low in the western world. Simply eliminating this is a huge first step.
Halle Button, Yours are the words of a fool. The decline you describe has occurred since the formation of the Department of Education. Read Thomas Sowell if you want the truth, which I doubt that you do, because it doesn’t conform to your ideology possession. Chris proposes positive change- to positively eliminate the Department of Education.
my point is that you want government to do everything you like and nothing that you don't. you classify things you don't like as "waste." that's how you work. you have no deeper system. you're all, "cut it all!" until i suggest one consequence that is from your perspective negative -- and then you're like, "not that!"
i do think a lot of the cuts being made are long overdue -- and i personally consider *actively spending money* to remove healthy working people from out country to be a colossal waste - so i'd throw most of ICE "into the woodchipper" as you types are fond of saying. but no, that bit of federal-state overreach - contrary as it may be to American traditions - is something you consider precious. do you need any more help before you get the point?
It is indisputable that govt. is now far too big, and its efforts are criminally misdirected.
The first issue is proper jobs. That means defend the border, keep civil peace, enforce contracts, preserve free markets. Then, as we prosper, perhaps humane welfare for the deserving needy, even though that is nowhere in the Constitution. You may prefer other jobs, but that’s your opinion.
The second issue is how much of GDP we let govt. have. Too much and it kills free markets. Even worse, it creates dependency in the people.
There are endless “nice to haves” most of which are counterproductive. Limits are required.
you engage here in a classic sleight of hand that equates "defend the border" with "internal & external permitting & tracking of would-be newcomers to this nation."
"defend the border" means "from hostile nations" - you lot applying it to migrant workers and people who've overstayed visas is just f*cking laughable.
stop pretending that you care more about the letter or spirit of the constitution than "leftists." you plainly don't. you brazenly twist it to whatever end you desire -- and worse than the "leftists," you deny that you're doing it.
next i'll ask you what "preserve free markets" specifically entails - i don't think that phrase is in the constitution, by the way, so from a constitutional perspective, you and elizabeth warren have equally valid opinions as to the government's proper role.
I stated the proper jobs of government and you may not pervert the clear language to suit your agenda.
State what you feel are the proper jobs of govt. You can't begin organize your thoughts.
Likewise, you have no idea how to even approach the total, baleful impact of govt. on the economy. You have no grasp that cash taxes are under half the total take. That must include unfunded mandates, borrowing, burden of laws, rules, regulations, the fraud of OASDHI, and worst of all, the hidden theft of deliberate inflation.
That last is the cruelest tax of all, hitting the poorest the hardest.
We are eternally grateful for your work. Am working on restructuring other paid subscriptions to here... It is becoming difficult, but market forces are at work.
But PEOPLE, if you want to see more of that money coming back to us, SUBSCRIBE to Christopher Rufo’s substack here so he can hire more people to do the job for us. I don’t know? Is an investment in Chris’ work worth $1billion? (And no, not a shill; just a fan)
Christopher, we need you guys to keep digging. There’s so much more to delete, delete, delete in the federal government.
Recently, I have seen many people post claims that the elimination of DEI will somehow result in elimination of the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Some even mention the ADA in their propaganda. Others have claimed that DEI is merely the implementation of the ORIGINAL publicly-stated intent of Affirmative Action; before quotas, “disparate impact”, and the reduction of work standards. This appears to be an organized effort.
Yes, I was momentarily surprised, and then realized that I shouldn’t have been surprised that they would use such lies. But I lived through all of the iterations of Affirmative Action and the ADA. Most people’s haven’t or didn’t pay much attention when they did. We all must be prepared to counter such lies.
I argued for Affirmative Action when it was being debated in Congress while I was in high school. I didn’t discover until recently that colleges had anlready been actively discriminating in admissions for favored groups.
Not only in admissions, also the staffing of the universities, right up to the No 1 job, resulting in the whole place being run by people unqualified for their positions. I don't know how these people sleep at night.
Some democrat donor stands up a 501c, which employs his daughter with a gender studies degree from NYU. USAID funds the 501c, which pays her salary. She spends her time proselytizing about whatever issue floats her boat, and some of that money gets funneled back to D politicians via campaign donation / other in-kind payments.
Those bastards after they made it so we have to live with potholes in the streets and danger us with bridges that are bad making us work seven days a week so we can’t spend time on a Sunday with our families making it so hard to make a living that you have to work that long in that hard while they’re stuck piling the money away to use against the American people Anybody stupid enough to vote for a democratic is probably getting a kick back. Matter fact I could bet on it cause no one is that stupid! Conservative Republican only do your homework. Don’t be complacent the next time America’s children and their future will not be so blessed. We are one generation away from freedom don’t get complacent and teach your children to be aware.
I've followed your writings since before you published the Counter Revolution book and have come to share your opinion, analysis and views in several areas. Primary responsibility for Education belongs with the respective States. They can and should choose how to get it done. It may be worthwhile, particularly at the start of making the transition, in states with large populations like
Texas, California, NY, Florida, etc. to divide into regions and districts with autonomy and resources to achieve their results. But first we have to get there. And we all should be encouraged at this initial set of results; and support the efforts to see it through to completion. Thanks again for your continued work and voice. Guys like you with principles and the courage of your convictions are the key to our future success. Keeping the lines of communication fully open make all the difference.
Unless Congress passes laws related to Musk’s cuts, the Dems, once they regain power, will put “Humpty Dumpty together again.” I am not ready to celebrate just yet. Laws are needed, which requires political courage.
The worst enemies are lower-court judges mingling in the executive orders. You could have an inept judge lording over the executive decisions of a president.
Justice Clarence Thomas has long railed against instances of judicial overreach by such judges. I believe Chief Justice John Roberts is increasingly sympathetic to Thomas' complaints. Here's hoping the Court sees an opportunity to take long-needed action in this area and reforms federal judicial procedure to prevent judges' hijacking of national policy for personal/political reasons.
I’m a paid subscriber and you are worth every penny. Looking forward to watching the DOE empire fall.
1. "...any positive reform of education?" (Kandybarre - why don't YOU do something about it? And, see his article on New College of Florida.)
2. "Rule by the crude and vulgar" (uhhhhh...... Bill Clinton? Hillary?)
3. "data shows that..... adults too are becoming stupider by the year." (You failed in punctuation and grammar. Maybe you are becoming stupider, too?)
4. "...i don't think malfeasance at the DOE..." (The DOE has overseen public education since 1980 so it would have been responsible for the education of our older generations.)
5. "...barely a post past a single-digit word count." (Some people are just more concise than you are.)
6. "...does involve some planting after the fire." (Do you expect Mr. Rufo to solve ALL problems; past, present and future? What are YOU doing to help solve problems?)
Way to go Deanna. Put it to them. Loving it 😊.
nice little face you've got at the end there. i thought those were stupid when they first came out, and i was thirteen. i like them now, though, because they make it easy to tell whose brains have leaked out their ears.
1. i'm not allowed in "left academia" because i know there are two immutable sexes, and i'm not allowed in "right academia" because i have half a brain.
2. try as they might, they never caught bill with toilet paper on *his* shoe. by the way, when your only response is "tu quoque," you're admitting i'm right.
3. there is nothing wrong with the grammar in that sentence, lmao. do you struggle with more than one clause?
4. you didn't understand what i said. american adults, the fully-grown-already ones, are literally becoming stupider *in their adulthood.* they are becoming worse at reading and math *as adults.* this is a new phenomenon. it's happening because of phone- and internet-induced brainrot.
5. cogiteas.
6. i'm one of the few to have a real education and i continue to exist. do you need anything answered? ask away. dico a lingua latina - as i said - and i know a thing or two about chemistry, too. or if you'd like me the twofold sorwe of troilus to tellen, i can oblige eke.
Thanks, Halle Burton, or kandybarre. Someone here is a little high on themselves. Yay for you for having an extensive education and a grasp of Latin, chemistry, but you should tap into the social graces. My purpos is, er that I parte fro ye: It's obvious you are here to just stoke the fires. End of story.
i don't think you actually said a purpose there: you merely made a declaration. i will then make one too:
cave, canetes: ubi cadetis, non cogitatis quid structebit.
etiam: videsne lupus perterrit canes? illas habeas, si sed stes contra regum.
Damn, haven't seen so much Latin since my last high school Latin class over 60 years ago. Guess I'm one of those adults getting stupider by the year as I remember little from that class
hic duodecim anni, et certe parta frangitur, sed utere ferrum novum facet.
Well said Halle.
On point 4, I must introduce you to findings published in the NEJM and others, elsewhere, that strongly indicate a similar phenomenon associated with repeated exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in light of “let it rip” public health policies around the globe.
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2311330
Such widespread exposure is surely responsible, at least in part, for the recent endumbnification of adults.
See, perhaps, some of Chris's writing about New College of Florida. For example: https://christopherrufo.com/p/the-difficult-work-of-academic-reform
"Last term, President Corcoran announced the basic structure of the new curriculum, balancing the concepts of logos and techne, beginning with a mandatory humanities course on Homer’s Odyssey and continuing with courses in the applied arts, statistics, and data science."
this reads like a statue head on twitter wrote it. we have here the classic combination of shallow veneration of totemic classical objects like the odyssey mixed with utter disregard for the creative energies that brought those things into existence.
if you can't see "data science" for the grift it is, you're getting grufted. the real thing is called "computer science" and it is in fact classical logic.
you morons don't even know how big of a joke you are. reading the odyssey IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION is your big return to classicism? i could die laughing.
non graecus sum, sed dico a lingua latina. si non dices, baculum habeo -- cogitasne?
OK, I thought this was some type of joke; a pseudo-intellectual who doesn't know the basic rules of capitalization criticizing the writing of others. But now you have trampled upon my field: STEM. Data science is not computer science by any stretch of the imagination. That is a whopper. Data science overlaps the most with statistics. It has very little to do with computer science. Please stick to what you know.
Absolutely. Halle Burton/kandybarre is way over her/his depth. Claiming that computer science is the same as data science is like saying a skilled pottery maker is the same as being a master chef. Computers are simply tools for data science like they are many other things.
let me lead you through a little logic. first - surely data science is not entirely the same thing as statistics. otherwise, we would just say "statistics."
what, then, is the difference between "statistics" and "data science"? surely it has something to do with computers - otherwise, as i said, we would simply say "statistics."
now, it *could* be that people are saying "data science" to sound fancy, when what they really mean is "statistics" - but that would just be silly, and surely isn't the case.
it could also be the case that "data science" is a specialized subset of the general field of statistics - but in that case, the teaching of "data science" should surely be an advanced subject that *follows* the teaching of statistics. doing otherwise is like teaching "neuroscience" to undergraduates who have yet to complete a degree in general biology -- though i've heard some places claim to do that too, as retarded as it sounds.
suffice it to say, mr corcoran has gone wrong somewhere - which doesn't mean i'm right everywhere, but he's the university president, not me.
"Lead me through a little logic", right. Can you sound any more condescending? Might want to lighten up on that.
Data science was around long before computing engines, and it's not simply statistics, either. Statistics are only ANOTHER tool used to analyze, organize, and validate data.
Data has been gathered and analyzed for thousands of years, ever since people figured out that knowing the results of more things happening gave a truer picture of reality than a few anecdotes.
Which is why the vast majority of statistical tools were devised long before modern computers. Even the abacus was used to do statistical analyses, followed by dozens of mechanical computation tools, culminating in the mechanical slide rule.
These were still used just prior to electronic calculators. I still have one or two that I used in engineering school many decades ago, and bet if really pressed I might remember how to use most of the slide rule functions. Good things to have if batteries run out.
The point here is that data science is NOT computer science, NOR is it statistics. It predates both, and both statistics and computer science are tools developed to support data science. If one realizes that "data science" encompasses applications ranging from language-processing LL AI models to image processing or autonomous navigation, to statistical-driven sports and stock market analysis, it's clearer what the field really spans.
Data science is actually the basis for all quantitative science, meaning all modern science.
by the way, folks watching, you can see here a classic signature of grifters defending the grift -- they're very eager to tell me what this "data science" is not, but they are not so eager to volunteer a definition of what it *is.*
i thought "trust the experts, don't ask questions" was supposed to be a leftist thing?
then teach statistics and computer science, not some bastard hybrid which gives the foundation to understand neither in any real way.
teaching "data science" to freshman undergraduates is like trying to teach them "art history" when they know next to nothing of either art or history.
if you'd like to be trampled on further, and with more force, let me know, and i'll call my common-law-father-in-law. (he has a wikipedia page!)
SIDICEASNEMELEGEREALTIORCAVEMODOSPERANDI because capitalization is a mere artefact of typography, fatuus. can you believe romans really legevint epistulas written so? gosh, they must have had *two* brains.
Please get help.
I've heard ideas written in other languages still translate to English. Being limited to English and Sesame Street Spanish makes it hard to verify but it sounds legit.
The Iliad and The Odyssey were written in Ancient Greek and the Aeneid in Latin. The Bible was originally written in the ancient languages of Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek. Beowulf was written in Old English. Knowledge of how many languages is required for a big return to classicism?
What was the trajectory of New College of Florida before Rufo got involved compared to now? I vaguely remember something about some city somewhere not being built in a day.
>Knowledge of how many languages is required for a big return to classicism?
if little old me has latin, chaucer's english, and henryson's scots, and i didn't take anything relevant past high school, surely our "new scholars" can manage at least one old tongue in college. urbem structo - structis sed suburbias. ubi non voleas, volabam, et altior.
1. You didn't respond to my second question, so I'll repeat it: What was the trajectory of New College of Florida before Rufo got involved compared to now?
2. Learn all those languages on your own?
3. If not, where did you learn all those languages? If you learned them during K-12 then that says as much about K-12 as it does about New College of Florida. Also, if you learned them K-12, are you out championing K-12 to teach classical languages?
4. What was the purpose of your Latin response when I told you I didn't know Latin?
To look smart? To make me look dumb? Something else? To put obstacles between what you mean and who you're talking to? Your classical education teach you to spew Latin at people you know don't speak it? Or did you pick that up somewhere else? Or maybe you just skipped kindergarten?
Interwebs translated as your Latin to: I built a city - but built suburbs. Where you don't want, I flew, and higher. That's likely only a little off.
The interwebs told me to tell you:
1. Spouting Latin isn't the party trick it used to be, and
2. Omne quod coacte fit, amaritudo est animae.
3. Rufo probably isn't going to look to you for advice.
4. Your Substack has two subscribers, but there's potential to double that.
also, one should get *all* of the weeds.
1. probably bad. like most colleges. not sure how that's relevant. am i defending the teaching of gender studies and other psychological nonsense? i certainly am not. but when you rip up weeds, they simply grow back, unless you plant something durable in their place.
2. i took latin in high school and read the aeneid in latin under the tutelage of an old harvard man. i am very grateful for that privilege. the rest i managed myself, yes. i don't use "youtube" or "instagram" so i have a lot of time. also, you don't have to really be "taught" the latter two -- if everything you read is a few years older than the last thing, you get back to chaucer eventually.
3. see 2. yes, i am championing k-12 to teach classical languages. that's part & parcel of my point: you can't take a bunch of moronic undergraduates and have them read modern translations of the odyssey and expect much of a result. as they say in science, "garbage in, garbage out." the "great books" junk is lipstick on a pig when half of them are so poorly served by k-12 that they can't even read.
the interwebs told me to tell you and president corcoran that the "new scholars" are just gonna use fricking sparknotes for your special marcus aurelius big brain odyssey class. and they're gonna do their assignments with chatgpt, like they will for every other damn class. you aren't even really changing the set dressing, merely playing with the drapes.
you would be *very* surprised who looks to me for advice - but the reason they look to me is that, like cato, i just want to farm. so far, anyway. people change. have you read addison's tragedy on the subject? the founding fathers' favorite play, don't you know. (and all in the king's english.) i wonder why that isn't in the new "conservative" curriculum? personally i suspect it's the bit about blasting men who owe their greatness to their country's ruin.
The department of education like any federal bureaucracy that has billions to allocate has infected the state education departments with pet leftist requirements as a condition on funding. This has watered down true education so much that we're now incredibly low in the western world. Simply eliminating this is a huge first step.
Halle Button, Yours are the words of a fool. The decline you describe has occurred since the formation of the Department of Education. Read Thomas Sowell if you want the truth, which I doubt that you do, because it doesn’t conform to your ideology possession. Chris proposes positive change- to positively eliminate the Department of Education.
Stripped a billion? Good!
But just ONE....?
The budget has 7,300 of those!
so you're for open borders? like america used to have, in the good old days before "big government"?
i'm happy we're on the same page, but i'm not sure you know what page you're on.
This is about a bloated, dangerous parasite class that must be slashed dramataically.
Nothing about immigration.
The cuts must be in the trillions, not mere billions.
Now what is your point?
my point is that you want government to do everything you like and nothing that you don't. you classify things you don't like as "waste." that's how you work. you have no deeper system. you're all, "cut it all!" until i suggest one consequence that is from your perspective negative -- and then you're like, "not that!"
i do think a lot of the cuts being made are long overdue -- and i personally consider *actively spending money* to remove healthy working people from out country to be a colossal waste - so i'd throw most of ICE "into the woodchipper" as you types are fond of saying. but no, that bit of federal-state overreach - contrary as it may be to American traditions - is something you consider precious. do you need any more help before you get the point?
Incorrect, and badly so.
It is indisputable that govt. is now far too big, and its efforts are criminally misdirected.
The first issue is proper jobs. That means defend the border, keep civil peace, enforce contracts, preserve free markets. Then, as we prosper, perhaps humane welfare for the deserving needy, even though that is nowhere in the Constitution. You may prefer other jobs, but that’s your opinion.
The second issue is how much of GDP we let govt. have. Too much and it kills free markets. Even worse, it creates dependency in the people.
There are endless “nice to haves” most of which are counterproductive. Limits are required.
The bigger the government the smaller the citizen. And I might add, the poorer the citizen.
americans are presently the richest people in the world.
you engage here in a classic sleight of hand that equates "defend the border" with "internal & external permitting & tracking of would-be newcomers to this nation."
"defend the border" means "from hostile nations" - you lot applying it to migrant workers and people who've overstayed visas is just f*cking laughable.
stop pretending that you care more about the letter or spirit of the constitution than "leftists." you plainly don't. you brazenly twist it to whatever end you desire -- and worse than the "leftists," you deny that you're doing it.
next i'll ask you what "preserve free markets" specifically entails - i don't think that phrase is in the constitution, by the way, so from a constitutional perspective, you and elizabeth warren have equally valid opinions as to the government's proper role.
Still wrong, now aggressive and highly defensive.
I stated the proper jobs of government and you may not pervert the clear language to suit your agenda.
State what you feel are the proper jobs of govt. You can't begin organize your thoughts.
Likewise, you have no idea how to even approach the total, baleful impact of govt. on the economy. You have no grasp that cash taxes are under half the total take. That must include unfunded mandates, borrowing, burden of laws, rules, regulations, the fraud of OASDHI, and worst of all, the hidden theft of deliberate inflation.
That last is the cruelest tax of all, hitting the poorest the hardest.
Prove you have a grasp of economics.
Journeys, steps.
OK.
But at a billion a DAY, takes 20 years.
Got to start somewhere. Just see what can be achieved when he gets going.
We are eternally grateful for your work. Am working on restructuring other paid subscriptions to here... It is becoming difficult, but market forces are at work.
Yes, great news, Christopher.
But PEOPLE, if you want to see more of that money coming back to us, SUBSCRIBE to Christopher Rufo’s substack here so he can hire more people to do the job for us. I don’t know? Is an investment in Chris’ work worth $1billion? (And no, not a shill; just a fan)
Christopher, we need you guys to keep digging. There’s so much more to delete, delete, delete in the federal government.
Thanks!
Recently, I have seen many people post claims that the elimination of DEI will somehow result in elimination of the legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Some even mention the ADA in their propaganda. Others have claimed that DEI is merely the implementation of the ORIGINAL publicly-stated intent of Affirmative Action; before quotas, “disparate impact”, and the reduction of work standards. This appears to be an organized effort.
The swine will tell any lie, over and over until people think it is the truth. Don't let them get away with it.
Yes, I was momentarily surprised, and then realized that I shouldn’t have been surprised that they would use such lies. But I lived through all of the iterations of Affirmative Action and the ADA. Most people’s haven’t or didn’t pay much attention when they did. We all must be prepared to counter such lies.
I argued for Affirmative Action when it was being debated in Congress while I was in high school. I didn’t discover until recently that colleges had anlready been actively discriminating in admissions for favored groups.
Not only in admissions, also the staffing of the universities, right up to the No 1 job, resulting in the whole place being run by people unqualified for their positions. I don't know how these people sleep at night.
Haven't seen what you're reporting, but I'll now keep my eyes and ears open for it. Thanks for the heads-up.
Thank you
Keep up the great work.
DOGE is uncovering what is nothing more than a WPA for liberal activists.
Run by and for the benefit of, but not paid for by.
Some democrat donor stands up a 501c, which employs his daughter with a gender studies degree from NYU. USAID funds the 501c, which pays her salary. She spends her time proselytizing about whatever issue floats her boat, and some of that money gets funneled back to D politicians via campaign donation / other in-kind payments.
Its all a scam
Exactly!
Great News. 🙏
Yes. One billion. Just 7,299 left to consider.
Time will tell. 😉
Those bastards after they made it so we have to live with potholes in the streets and danger us with bridges that are bad making us work seven days a week so we can’t spend time on a Sunday with our families making it so hard to make a living that you have to work that long in that hard while they’re stuck piling the money away to use against the American people Anybody stupid enough to vote for a democratic is probably getting a kick back. Matter fact I could bet on it cause no one is that stupid! Conservative Republican only do your homework. Don’t be complacent the next time America’s children and their future will not be so blessed. We are one generation away from freedom don’t get complacent and teach your children to be aware.
I've followed your writings since before you published the Counter Revolution book and have come to share your opinion, analysis and views in several areas. Primary responsibility for Education belongs with the respective States. They can and should choose how to get it done. It may be worthwhile, particularly at the start of making the transition, in states with large populations like
Texas, California, NY, Florida, etc. to divide into regions and districts with autonomy and resources to achieve their results. But first we have to get there. And we all should be encouraged at this initial set of results; and support the efforts to see it through to completion. Thanks again for your continued work and voice. Guys like you with principles and the courage of your convictions are the key to our future success. Keeping the lines of communication fully open make all the difference.
Unless Congress passes laws related to Musk’s cuts, the Dems, once they regain power, will put “Humpty Dumpty together again.” I am not ready to celebrate just yet. Laws are needed, which requires political courage.
First, you stop the bleeding. Then you attend to the injury and provide a long-term solution.
The worst enemies are lower-court judges mingling in the executive orders. You could have an inept judge lording over the executive decisions of a president.
Justice Clarence Thomas has long railed against instances of judicial overreach by such judges. I believe Chief Justice John Roberts is increasingly sympathetic to Thomas' complaints. Here's hoping the Court sees an opportunity to take long-needed action in this area and reforms federal judicial procedure to prevent judges' hijacking of national policy for personal/political reasons.
And who does the billion belong to?
The people!
"My precious!" said Gollum on the left.
Good work, Christopher! Your leadership in the area of mental illness, described incorrectly as DEI, is impressive!
Chris, please look at Biden's DOE fine of $35 mil for DEI bullcrap at Grand Canyon University.
Great work Christopher! Thank you. Keep doing.....