Here’s the video of me in the darkness, and I swear I’ll stop posting these videos because I’m sure they are getting on everybody’s nerves at this point. The topic is “Education in the Trump Era”:

The very first conference talk I’m attending is about how to “help students survive and embrace DEI under fascism.”

And this is what I woke up at the ungodly hour of 7 am.

I’m at a conference and kind of out of the news cycle because I’m on the executive board and very over-scheduled. But I always have time to watch the Matt Walsh show, and I noticed that he keeps saying “for thousands of years, people had children in conditions a lot worse than ours, so how can anybody say today that they can’t afford to have children?”

I agree that having children is the best thing in life but appealing to history is a mistake. Even just a hundred years ago our ancestors weren’t people like we are people. They were people but in a completely different way. Their subjectivity, or the way they were inside their own heads, is completely different from ours. They constituted themselves as human beings in a completely different way. The word “I” meant something different to them and so did the word “child.” In developed countries, we are undergoing yet another major change of subjectivity right at this moment, and our own children will be people very differently from how we are people. Matt Walsh’s appeals to history are ahistorical because he doesn’t take into account how our inner world transforms under the pressure of history.

This isn’t about Matt Walsh. I’m talking about this because we no longer have to be a passive object of these transformational forces. We can stop and ask, “is this change in our subjectivity that we are experiencing right now good for us? Does it make us happy? Should we allow it to happen?” My answer is no, no, and God, no. But we won’t be able to do anything about it if we keep pretending that it’s not real.

One of the channels where I get invited as a pundit now wants to give me a weekly spot. On Thursdays.

Today I did a taping from the hotel room, and it came out as very dark in the video. I said it was symbolic of me transmitting from deep in the underground. Maybe I need one of those light circles that influencers use for their videos.

This is a traditional Ukrainian necklace called gerdan, and one is coming my way:

It’s a gigantic thing that covers your whole chest.

Incredible beauty. Imagine how great it will look on me.

By the way, today is:

This is a story of how two very messed-up people from the most unpropitious family backgrounds, with the baggage of ethnic animosity and a deep conviction that marriage and family were not their lot, figured it out and made it happen.

My biggest advice to people who wonder how to make it work is to tell themselves this daily:

Someone is willing to put up with you every day, and that’s already huge. Humility is the path to happiness while an overinflated ego is not. When temptation hits to think about your spouse’s defects, spend some time first contemplating your own.

Corey Burke, 33, allegedly struck, stabbed and strangled her father, 67-year-old Timothy Burke, in a fatal attack at her $800,000 Seattle home on November 5.

Burke, a training manager at Jeff Bezos’ rockets and spacecraft company, confessed to killing her father after he refused to turn off the lights, according to charging documents seen by DailyMail.com.

Everybody online says Corey is a lesbian but she’s nothing of the kind. She’s one of those miserable women whose husband pretends to be a woman. That she snapped as a result of such a life is not shocking. I’m not justifying her in the least, of course. The murder was gruesome and she should rot.

Here’s the $800,000 home, by the way:

Housing is extremely overpriced in some regions.

But in any case, no man in existence will put up with a wife who grows a beard and would start calling himself gay to please her. Only women do this kind of subservient, pathetic stuff. Corey had money to buy a $800,000 house, so it’s not poverty that prevented her from leaving the narcissistic husband. She stuck with him until her brain couldn’t take any more abuse and she lashed out against the man who brought her up to be such a docile, easily abused person.

Dems torn over transgender issue: Centrists worry that party is ‘reading the public wrong’.

https://x.com/politico/status/1856638729194012747?t=kJ7Nk1A5LRRRlqyUZWlLWg&s=19

Wait, so they though that the public actually wanted this? And they were following the lead of the public opinion? Can anybody be even more out of touch?

This utter incapacity to understand reality is widely spread on the Left. Among academics who believe that Trump supporters should be banned from voting (true story) the strangest myths about teaching proliferate. I sit with colleagues at a conference, and they try to outcompete each other on whose teaching is more touchy-feely and less demanding.

“I don’t grade anymore! Instead, students decide for themselves which grade they deserve!”

“I don’t do exams or assign essays because it’s too stressful for students!”

“I don’t assign presentations or group projects because students with mental health issues suffer!”

“I don’t do lectures because students get too bored.”

“I tell students I’m not the authority in the classroom, I don’t have the right to say if they are doing well or not and we are completely equal in the classroom.”

“I’m against hierarchy! Merit is racist! If students miss a lot of class it’s probably because they are underprivileged!”

Then it’s my turn to speak and I say, “I do traditional teaching. Lectures, exams, tons of assigned readings, harsh grading, I fail people easily and with gusto, everything is graded strictly on merit, I’m the authority in the classroom, when I speak, everybody else is silent.”

Colleagues stare at me in confusion but I haven’t had an underenrolled class since my first year of teaching and my evaluations are invariably spectacular.

Students actually love rigor, merit, clear expectations, hierarchy and a professor who is authoritative and in control. The Left is making assumptions about human beings that are completely baseless. Its ideology is based entirely on hubris.

Newsweek reports:

“56 percent of first-time voters chose the Republican over the 43 percent who selected Vice President Kamala Harris. Four years ago, 64 percent of first-timers picked President Joe Biden, while Trump only attracted 32 percent.”… Among the first-time voters were 8 million from Gen Z, who narrowed the Democrats’ lead among 18 to -29-year-olds from 24 percent in 2020 to 13 percent in 2024.

https://www.newsweek.com/first-time-voters-favor-trump-over-harris-1982418

Aside from the youngsters, a large number of people who never voted before registered to vote this time. Even the perennially apolitical did have an opinion this time.

Let’s never ever hear about equity and other diversities ever again – and did I say ever? – because it’s dead and buried.

They have absolutely nobody but themselves to blame. Probably bitched and moaned all throughout their children’s childhoods about how hard parenting is and how they are its victims.

As I keep saying, people need to start taking responsibility. Is anybody ever responsible for anything or is it all “society” and social media? If “society” did your parenting for you, you don’t deserve much respect.