I chose that headline specifically as an eye-opener…. As an uncle of mine used to say delightfully about the late Senator Jesse Helms (R-NC), when the senator said something which outraged the liberal establishment in Washington DC and in Raleigh NC, “he done done it again!” I caught myself saying the same thing with the same delight as my late uncle when I read the hysterical reporting of The Washington Post and The Hill on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s latest remarks to the International Valdai Forum, held in Sochi, on October 21, 2021. Not that Putin had said anything new, not that his speech in Sochi was … Continue reading →
“What happened to you?”
It’s a question I get a lot on Twitter. “When did you become so far right?” “Why have you become a white supremacist, transphobic, misogynistic eugenicist?” Or, of course: “See! I told you who he really was! Just take the hood off, Sully!” It’s trolling, mainly. And it’s a weapon for some in the elite to wield against others in the kind of emotional blackmail spiral that was first pioneered on elite college campuses. But it’s worth answering, a year after I was booted from New York Magazine for my unacceptable politics. Because it seems to me that the dynamic should really be the other way round.
Yale University is among the handful of elite universities that have long allowed alumni to nominate board of trustees candidates by petition. With more and more alumni distressed by the descent of Yale into wokism, there has been rising support for insurgent alumni petition candidates over the last few years. We reported in 2018 on the petition candidacy of Jamie Kirchick, which fell short of qualifying for a vote-in, and