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New York Times Intellectual Says Higher Education Breeds Nihilists

Published by Admin on August 22, 2025

David Brooks has done it again; castigated the left for the sins of the right. In a recent NYT op-ed he says “conservatives … feel drenched by a constant downpour of progressive sermonizing.” Feeling oppressed by “educated elites” drives the more extreme of them to want to tear down the system. Not so fast, sir…

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Give a Speech, Sing a Song, Read a Poem, Hawk a Book

Published by Admin on October 24, 2018

That’s what went on at Community Media Day at our town’s public TV station last Saturday. The Belmont Media Center is a well-equipped production studio financed by our cable providers, Verizon and Comcast, that broadcasts shows day and night on local cable and over the Web. This year’s Media Day theme was Free Speech. Here’s a sample—Belmont resident Wendy Murphy addressing women’s rights in America and how the Equal Rights Amendment introduced in 1972 still could enshrine them in the US Constitution:

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