D.W. Lafferty
@rightscholar.bsky.social
Canadian, disaffected Catholic, PhD in Wyndham Lewis. @rightscholar on X. My Substack is called Agony: https://open.substack.com/pub/theagony/p/welcome-to-agony
Try it, enjoy it, live it.
December 1, 2024 at 6:12 PM
Try it, enjoy it, live it.
If they had lost they wouldn't be saying that.
December 1, 2024 at 4:01 AM
If they had lost they wouldn't be saying that.
...going to be something other than populist conservatism in disguise, has to look at universities as they really are, and not the false reality created by pundits and influencers.
November 25, 2024 at 12:51 AM
...going to be something other than populist conservatism in disguise, has to look at universities as they really are, and not the false reality created by pundits and influencers.
...have immense influence on government, culture, corporations, schools, the military, and more. That is what people were reacting to—not the reality—when they voted for Trump in 2016, and that's what they were reacting to once again in 2024. Any critique of academia from the inside, if it is...
November 25, 2024 at 12:49 AM
...have immense influence on government, culture, corporations, schools, the military, and more. That is what people were reacting to—not the reality—when they voted for Trump in 2016, and that's what they were reacting to once again in 2024. Any critique of academia from the inside, if it is...
...populist conservative outlets and influencers who used Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms to amplify the conservative critique of academia to levels that had never been seen before. They created an alternate reality within which many people thought universities really did...
November 25, 2024 at 12:47 AM
...populist conservative outlets and influencers who used Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms to amplify the conservative critique of academia to levels that had never been seen before. They created an alternate reality within which many people thought universities really did...
The idea of pc indoctrination, etc. in academia was always greatly overstated, even if it pointed to *some* truth, and so was the influence of academia. Humanities profs dream every day of having real influence on society...but most of them don't. What DID change in 2014 was the rise of a wave of...
November 25, 2024 at 12:45 AM
The idea of pc indoctrination, etc. in academia was always greatly overstated, even if it pointed to *some* truth, and so was the influence of academia. Humanities profs dream every day of having real influence on society...but most of them don't. What DID change in 2014 was the rise of a wave of...
...and not just since 2014. When I started university in 1994, campus political correctness and "feminazis" and such were the targets of rw commentators like Rush Limbaugh and co. Some of the same conservative loudmouths we see today, like Dinesh D'Souza and Roger Kimball, were around then too.
November 25, 2024 at 12:43 AM
...and not just since 2014. When I started university in 1994, campus political correctness and "feminazis" and such were the targets of rw commentators like Rush Limbaugh and co. Some of the same conservative loudmouths we see today, like Dinesh D'Souza and Roger Kimball, were around then too.
Anyone familiar with academia knows that there is a *strong* tendency in the humanities and social sciences toward social liberalism and left-wing thought, including the use of annoying PC terminology. It can be oppressive. All of that is true. But it's been the case since at least the 1960s,...
November 25, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Anyone familiar with academia knows that there is a *strong* tendency in the humanities and social sciences toward social liberalism and left-wing thought, including the use of annoying PC terminology. It can be oppressive. All of that is true. But it's been the case since at least the 1960s,...
Didn't know this magazine existed! Great to have a forum for non-TT historians.
November 24, 2024 at 3:38 AM
Didn't know this magazine existed! Great to have a forum for non-TT historians.
...Red Bull and candy for every meal, day after day, year after year, but they ate it! They do love owning libs, but they also love saying the same stuff over and over to each other. It's remarkable.
November 23, 2024 at 11:40 PM
...Red Bull and candy for every meal, day after day, year after year, but they ate it! They do love owning libs, but they also love saying the same stuff over and over to each other. It's remarkable.
Rumble was an echo chamber, and then there were podcasts like Bannon's War Room that were on every single day featuring a rotating echo chamber cast. I thought that there was no way people could ingest that kind of content 24/7, but then *can.* They love it. It's like having...
November 23, 2024 at 11:39 PM
Rumble was an echo chamber, and then there were podcasts like Bannon's War Room that were on every single day featuring a rotating echo chamber cast. I thought that there was no way people could ingest that kind of content 24/7, but then *can.* They love it. It's like having...
Twitter was turned into a MAGA echo chamber by Musk. Like he literally rigged everything to make it happen. Truth Social kept Trump in touch with his followers for 4 years. Gab was always too explicitly Nazi (though X is as bad now), and Parler just failed, but echo chambers absolutely worked.
November 23, 2024 at 11:35 PM
Twitter was turned into a MAGA echo chamber by Musk. Like he literally rigged everything to make it happen. Truth Social kept Trump in touch with his followers for 4 years. Gab was always too explicitly Nazi (though X is as bad now), and Parler just failed, but echo chambers absolutely worked.