LAURA KIPNIS, a professor at Northwestern University, describes the Title IX interrogation proceedings against her after she was accused of wounding students’ feelings with her article on professor-student relationships:

It’s astounding how aggressive students’ assertions of vulnerability have gotten in the past few years. Emotional discomfort is regarded as equivalent to material injury, and all injuries have to be remediated.  (more…)

THIRTY-EIGHT people, most of them black, have been killed in Baltimore this month, which is a monthly record for homicides since 1996. Where are the protests? Where is the media outrage?

These killings don’t fit the narrative.

The celebration of lawlessness that characterized the recent riots has resulted in more mayhem and oppression for Baltimoreans. (more…)

FROM Daily Kenn:

The media is casting a disparaging eye towards Phoenix, Arizona.

It is there that a biker rally is planned today.

The site? A mosque. (more…)

IN his famous 1960 address on the issue of women wearing masculine clothing, Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, then Archbishop of Genoa, noted that when women started wearing trousers they showed that they were viewing femininity as inferior to masculinity. The change in fashions was not a sign of strength or confidence, but of weakness:

In truth, the motive impelling women to wear men’s dress is always that of imitating, nay, of competing with, the man who is considered stronger, less tied down, more independent.  This motivation shows clearly that male dress is the visible aid to bringing about a mental attitude of being “like a man.”⁵  Secondly, ever since men have been men, the clothing a person wears, demands, imposes and modifies that person’s gestures, attitudes and behavior, such that from merely being worn outside, clothing comes to impose a particular frame of mind inside.

Then let us add that woman wearing man’s dress always more or less indicates her reacting to her femininity as though it is inferiority when in fact it is only diversity. The perversion of her psychology is clear to be seen.⁶

These reasons, summing up many more, are enough to warn us how wrongly women are made to think by the wearing of men’s dress. (more…)

“POPE” Francis is a veritable Vesuvius of anti-Catholic smoke and lava, an almost-daily eruption of distortions and obfuscations of the Faith he has rejected. The other day, however, he went even further and openly admitted to the willingness to teach heresy.

“And it comes to my mind to say something that may be foolish or perhaps a heresy, I don’t know.”

Thomas Droleskey writes:

Those looking for “proof” of pertinacious heresy have been given it by Jorge Mario Bergoglio himself, a man who cares not one whit for Catholic doctrine. His is a religion of sentiment and emotionalism, a mere projection of whatever “random” thoughts” come into his head as he speaks from a heart blackened with the stain of the endless delights that he has taken throughout the course of his career as a lay Jesuit to “make a mess” as an ecclesiastical, theological, liturgical, pastoral and moral revolutionary.

And from Novus Ordo Watch:

Really, the Francis “pontificate” is Sedevacantism for Dummies. He’s now telling his adherents to their face that he is a heretic! (more…)

DON VINCENZO writes:

Here is another example of pizza in Japan.

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MARK JAWS writes:

I spent my first seven years in the Army as a Russian linguist. Later on, I earned a Master’s Degree in Russian Area Studies from the Defense Intelligence College. Compared to the average American, I know Russia and its people pretty well, and while Russia is facing challenging problems today, I think it will prevail, while we will fail. Why? Because even throughout the 75 years or so of Communist tyranny, the Russian people endured, as they endured through 300 years of Mongol rule and countless other invasions and tragedies which have struck throughout the centuries. (more…)

WILLIAM H. writes from the Netherlands:

Recently I came across this blog post by Peter Hitchens, the brother of atheist Christopher Hitchens, and it made me think of my own story.

Classical composers did not really get any time in my high school (I was at the Athenaeum in the Netherlands then.) And much work was made there of praising the teachers’ personal heroes of the sixties, such as Bob Dylan and the Stones. After my time there I went on a long “career” into rap, house and other “hip music” which ended in 2004. I learned many things then and after, by reflecting on the “scenes,” the people and the very essence of the technology and mindset that produces these genres.

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JEANETTE V. writes: Scholastic, the children's book publisher that distributes to public and private schools, is releasing a novel about a "transgender" eight-year-old.

THIS is from a Peter Hitchens column from 2013:

When I was a Revolutionary Marxist, we were all in favour of as much immigration as possible.

It wasn’t because we liked immigrants, but because we didn’t like Britain. We saw immigrants – from anywhere – as allies against the staid, settled, conservative society that our country still was at the end of the Sixties.

Also, we liked to feel oh, so superior to the bewildered people – usually in the poorest parts of Britain – who found their neighbourhoods suddenly transformed into supposedly ‘vibrant communities’.

If they dared to express the mildest objections, we called them bigots. (more…)

FROM The Baltimore Sun:

As Aaron Bryant walked along North Avenue on the night of Freddie Gray’s funeral, his photographer’s eye noted how the rising flames framed the “waves of police in riot gear” and the wall of ministers calling for calm.

Instinctively, the Baltimore man says, he began mentally cataloging the most evocative “visual cues” around him. He knew they would help inform his work chronicling the moment as a photography curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, now under construction on the National Mall in Washington. (more…)

THE discussion of the 1945 nuclear bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki continues.

AMERICAN composer Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, Opus 11, performed here by the Los Angeles Philharmonic conducted by Leonard Bernstein, expresses the sadness we feel today for all those Americans killed in war.

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THE push to place women in combat and increase their presence in the military in general creates endless material for news stories. That is arguably why women are being placed in combat: It is an exciting drama. First there are stories about inequality and the smashing of barriers. Then there are stories, such as this Memorial Day feature in The New York Times, about the negative consequences of having women in the military and the need to smash more barriers. The Times wonders why so many female soldiers are depressed and suicidal. “Every bad thing that happens, they interpret it as a sign that they don’t belong,” said Gregory M. Walton, an assistant professor of psychology at Stanford University. That seems like mental health. Not mental illness.

And when the days of the Pentecost were accomplished, they were all together in one place: And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a mighty wind coming, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. And there appeared to them parted tongues as it were of fire, and it sat upon every one of them: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they began to speak with divers tongues, according as the Holy Ghost gave them to speak. Now there were dwelling at Jerusalem, Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven. (more…)

FORMERLY Catholic Ireland voted overwhelmingly yesterday to recognize same-sex “marriage.” Though marriage can’t be changed by polls, referenda or courts, though ultimately we have no more control over the terms of marriage than we have over the revolutions of the planets, people can pretend to change it, and that’s what the Irish have done.

Jorge Bergoglio, the phony pope, encouraged the “Yes” vote in Ireland by his brilliant statements on the issue. The “Archbishop” of Dublin and the “bishop” of Derry both publicly encouraged the “yes” vote.

“I don’t doubt that there are many people who are practicing churchgoers of whatever church background who will in conscience vote Yes, and that’s entirely up them. I’m not going to say they’re wrong,” said “Bishop” Ding Dong of Derry, Donal McKeown.

With shepherds like these, who needs wolves? (more…)