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- Classical music under assault in academia
- Catch Me Tonight on the Laura Ingraham Show
| Posted: 29 Mar 2021 05:46 PM PDT (John Hinderaker) We haven’t done a VIP Live show for a while. Maybe we were stunned into silence by the election, I don’t know. In any event, we are back, or will be as of 7 p.m. Central (5 Pacific, 8 Eastern) tomorrow. We will kick around the issues of the day as well as taking questions and comments from VIPs. If you are a VIP member, you will get an email with a link to a live address where you can watch the event and submit comments and questions. If you are not already a VIP member, you can become one by clicking on the box in the upper right portion of our sidebar. Membership costs $4.80 per month or $48 per year, and gives you access to Power Line Live events, as well as other occasional benefits like videos of Steve’s lectures. You will eliminate most ads on our site. And, most important, by becoming a VIP you support our work. The URL to become a VIP is now: https://subscriptions.powerlineblog.com So if you are a VIP, please tune in tomorrow at 7:00 p.m. Central. If you aren’t, please consider subscribing.
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| Posted: 29 Mar 2021 04:20 PM PDT (John Hinderaker) President Trump has had it with taking shots from Dr. Fraudci and, most recently, Deborah Birx. Today he sent out this email, telling his side of the story. Quotable quote: “…Dr. Fauci, who said he was an athlete in college but couldn't throw a baseball even close to home plate…” Based on their interviews, I felt it was time to speak up about Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx, two self-promoters trying to reinvent history to cover for their bad instincts and faulty recommendations, which I fortunately almost always overturned. They had bad policy decisions that would have left our country open to China and others, closed to reopening our economy, and years away from an approved vaccine—putting millions of lives at risk. We developed American vaccines by an American President in record time, nine months, which is saving the entire world. We bought billions of dollars of these vaccines on a calculated bet that they would work, perhaps the most important bet in the history of the world. Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx moved far too slowly, and if it were up to them we'd currently be locked in our basements as our country suffered through a financial depression. Families, and children in particular, would be suffering the mental strains of this disaster like never before. In a fake interview last night on CNN, Dr. Fauci, who said he was an athlete in college but couldn't throw a baseball even close to home plate, it was a "roller," tried to take credit for the vaccine, when in fact he said it would take three to five years, and probably longer, to have it approved. Dr. Fauci was incapable of pressing the FDA to move it through faster. I was the one to get it done, and even the fake news media knows and reports this. Dr. Fauci is also the king of "flip-flops" and moving the goalposts to make himself look as good as possible. He fought me so hard because he wanted to keep our country open to countries like China. I closed it against his strong recommendation, which saved many lives. Dr. Fauci also said we didn't need to wear masks, then a few months later he said we needed to wear masks, and now, two or three of them. Fauci spent U.S. money on the Wuhan lab in China—and we now know how that worked out. Dr. Birx is a proven liar with very little credibility left. Many of her recommendations were viewed as "pseudo-science," and Dr. Fauci would always talk negatively about her and, in fact, would ask not to be in the same room with her. The States who followed her lead, like California, had worse outcomes on Covid, and ruined the lives of countless children because they couldn't go to school, ruined many businesses, and an untold number of Americans who were killed by the lockdowns themselves. Dr. Birx was a terrible medical advisor, which is why I seldom followed her advice. Her motto should be "Do as I say, not as I do." Who can forget when Dr. Birx gave a huge mandate to the people of our Nation to not travel, and then traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving—only to have them call the police and turn her in? She then, embarrassingly for her, resigned. Finally, Dr. Birx says she can't hear very well, but I can. There was no "very difficult" phone call, other than Dr. Birx's policies that would have led us directly into a COVID caused depression. She was a very negative voice who didn't have the right answers. Time has proven me correct. I only kept Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx on because they worked for the U.S. government for so long—they are like a bad habit!   |
| Will “action civics” prevail in Texas? Posted: 29 Mar 2021 04:09 PM PDT (Paul Mirengoff) “Action civics” is the means through which the left intends to indoctrinate students in radical dogma and enlist them as foot soldiers in radical activism. It has already effectively been imposed by law in Illinois and Massachusetts. But to perform its full transformative function, action civics needs to penetrate Red States. That’s why this report by Stanley Kurtz — “Civics Showdown in Texas” — is alarming. Stanley writes:
Stanley provides his usual thorough run down of each piece of legislation. He points out that the second such bill is sponsored by a conservative Republican, Keith Bell. In its own way, his proposal is at least as dangerous as the first one. The third bill, sponsored by Texas Senate Education Committee Chair Larry Taylor, has merit. But Stanley warns:
The only good outcome, then, would be a legislative ban on the whole menu of action civics techniques. Identical bills offered by Republican State Representatives Steve Toth and James White bar action civics and the teaching of critical race theory altogether. As awful as critical race theory is, Stanley finds the ban on teaching it problematic. He explains that “banning ideas from the classroom, even where the right to do so exists, invites abuse and blowback.” In addition, he worries about state curriculum bans overriding local authority. Stanley concludes on a broader note:
Texas voters, I would hope, would be especially quick to do so.   |
| Classical music under assault in academia Posted: 29 Mar 2021 02:52 PM PDT (Paul Mirengoff) Oxford University reportedly is under pressure to stop, or at least curtail, the teaching of sheet music, musical notation, and even the classical music that was scored upon it. The rationale is that all of this is “too colonial,” and that Beethoven, Mozart, and music in general are “complicit in white supremacy.” It’s not just students and BLM groups that are pushing this insanity. In fact, professors seem to be leading the charge. According to this report:
In addition:
Almost all of the professors behind this movement reportedly are White. What do they propose to replace “sheet” and “classical” music courses with? Special topics According to this report:
(Emphasis added) That’s obvious. It’s also an admission against interest. I have nothing against adding courses to any curriculum if they can be shown to have merit unattached to any political movement or agenda. What I oppose is curtailing the teaching of core subjects (or any others) for reasons having nothing to do with the academic discipline in question. It’s also deplorable falsely to brand a field of endeavor — in this case classical music — colonialist” or “white supremacist.” As this writer states:
So the assertions used to support the purging classical music and musical notation are false. The main criticism of these assertions, though, is that they are irrelevant. Classical music deserves a place in the curriculum regardless of whether it postdates or predates the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Musical notation should be studied whether it has roots in Babylonia or Brighton. Classical music is one of man’s highest cultural achievements. It has a beauty that is unsurpassed. It is worthy of study for these reasons. The real reason why BLM sympathizers want to put it aside as “white supremacist” is that nearly all significant contributions to classical music are by Whites. But to put it aside for that reason would be blatant racism. Jazz music is one of, if not the, highest cultural achievement in America. It originates with Blacks and most of the best contributors to the genre have been African-American. To label it “black supremacist” and to cast it aside in academia on that basis would also be racist. No one would publicly propose doing so. It’s unfortunate that self-hating White profs in Britain do not feel similarly constrained. And if this is happening in Britain, it must also be happening, or about to happen, here.   |
| Catch Me Tonight on the Laura Ingraham Show Posted: 29 Mar 2021 01:58 PM PDT (John Hinderaker) Laura Ingraham’s TV show has booked me for this entire week to talk about the Derek Chauvin trial. I probably won’t be on every night, depending on the news cycle, but I will be on tonight, along with Alan Dershowitz, I believe, at around 10:20 Eastern, 9:20 Central. Please tune in, it was an eventful first day of trial today.   |
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