Day 21 of 1000
Our family went away this weekend to a church convention. I had a very interesting discussion with a friend this weekend about school, mostly in regard to where our daughter Kelly will go for her undergraduate degree that will give her a good likelihood to get into a great graduate school. My friend commented that many who start at a big name school such as Stanford, Dartmouth, or Harvard as Christians, are not longer Christians by the time they graduate. That has certainly been true with respect to our family.
Then, when I got home Sunday evening, I read a blog post on National Review by Victor Davis Hanson about some very foolish and immoral remarks made by Paul Krugman. You need to read the whole thing to get the full impact of Krugman’s bigotry. This is from VDH’s column:
In this regard, most unfortunate was the blog posting (replete with all the tired formulaic slurs about “fake heroes,” “hijacking of the atrocity,” “neocons,” etc.) by Paul Krugman today that reprehensibly scoffed, “The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame.” It most surely has not. Such an unhinged view would imply that we would have escaped comparable serial attacks without the provisions we took, and that Krugman’s view was widely shared by liberal politicians who at least since 2009 were invested with the ultimate responsibility of governance. Untrue on both accounts, as we just saw in Vice President Biden’s moving speeches about the act of war once declared on us by these “stateless actors” and his thanks to a previous administration for crafting a successful response.
Next, I got out Paul Johnson’s book, Intellectuals because I noticed it said the book talked about Noam Chomsky. I read the book a long time ago, but did not remember that he talked about Chomsky, so I wanted to find that part of the book and reread it. Johnson exposed, Chomsky’s full buffoonery, in context in the 3-4 pages dedicated to how he believes his knowledge of linguistics qualified him to talk about the morality of the Vietnam war. Wow.
All of these guys (including VDH, the one good guy) studied or taught at elite schools like MIT, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc. It gives me great pause about whether I would want my children under the tutelage of these men or their ilk. We have to make these decisions sooner rather than later.