NHJ’s Ignorance on Education
Nikole Hannah-Jones’ piece “blaming white people” for “violent, failing schools that don’t assign homework and don’t actually teach students,” shows she “evidently doesn’t know what education is, or its purpose,” thunders The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson.
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Davidson → blame → students
NHJ’s alleged “commitment to the ‘collective good’ ” shadows her lack of interest in “education as such” except as a “credentialing mechanism.”
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commitment → shadow → mechanism
Her daughter “had never been taught the skills of independent study,” she reports, plainly unaware it was “primarily her job, as a parent, to teach” her child those skills.
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it → teach → skills
She worried more about “proving a point about racial injustice” than the “particulars of her daughter’s education.”
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She → worry → education
Workplace watch: Defining ‘Helping’ as Hazardous
Ever more people are “considered susceptible to secondary trauma,” the experience of “hearing about another’s trauma,” observes City Journal’s Christina Buttons.
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Buttons → define → trauma
“The concept has been invoked with increasing frequency” thanks to the “occupational stress” of “working in public mental-health settings.”
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concept → invoke → settings
Anyone whose “job is wearing them down” can experience “burnout,” but calling it “trauma gives the experience a much more serious meaning.”
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calling → wear → meaning
Seeing “exposure to other people’s trauma” as “potentially harmful to the clinician” means “difficult patients can be seen as a threat to a clinician’s own well-being.”
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patients → see → being
Thus the “helping professions have developed a scientific vocabulary” to define their jobs as “psychologically hazardous.”
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professions → help → jobs
Canada’s Single-Payer Fail
Medicare for All backers should read the new Fraser Institute report, advises Reason’s JD Tuccille:
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Tuccille → read → report
It shows how “the needs and preferences of patients play a small and indirect role in the allocation of health-care resources” in Canada’s single-payer system, while those of “governmental decision-makers and bureaucrats” dominate.
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those → show → makers
Patients don’t pay directly for their care, nor are “prices” attached to it; instead, resources get “allocated through bureaucratic planning,” with zero “profit motive” or competition to boost services and shorten waits.
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resources → pay → waits
The US system isn’t “perfect,” but Medicare for All would make its “problems worse.”
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problems → make → All
“AI was said to be on the agenda” at last week’s summit, with Xi Jinping “surely pressing” President “Trump on Taiwan,” notes Mike Gallagher at the Wall Street Journal.
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Gallagher → say → Journal
If Xi concludes “he is increasingly on the losing side of a technology gap that will define military power for a generation,” he’s more likely to try to seize the island democracy and crush “America’s tech stack.”
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he → conclude → stack
Taiwan “manufactures 90% of the world’s most advanced semiconductors and 60% of all semiconductors,” making its defense vital to “US national-security strategy” as well as our “economic and AI strategies.”
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defense → manufacture → strategy
Ultimately, “the biggest threat to humanity isn’t rogue AI; it is AI controlled by China, which would use this transformative technology to take Taiwan and displace America as the world’s dominant superpower.”
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which → control → superpower
Culture critic: Communism Kills Kindness
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Communism → kill → Kindness
With communism “on the rise in America” — “early half of the members of the Democratic Socialists of America’s (DSA) leadership body identify as communists” — Rob Henderson warns at The Free Press that this “revolutionary romance” bodes ill for society.
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romance → identify → society
Above all, learn how “communism transformed Chinese culture from being hospitable, welcoming, and warm to being cold, sanitized, and alienating” from a passage quoting a Soviet writer: “Everything we have seen in our times — the dispossession of the kulaks, class warfare, the constant ‘unmasking’ of people, the search for an ulterior motive behind every action — all this has taught us to be anything you like except kind.”
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you → learn → kind
This, notes Henderson, explains the left’s celebration of the murders of health-care Ceo Brian Thompson and debater Charlie Kirk: “If a person falls into the wrong category, cruelty rather than kindness is the right response.”
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cruelty → note → category
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