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The end of the year is often time for 'best of the year' and 'worst of the year' lists, but most 'best of' lists are merely catalogues of one's preferences and favorite moments, which is fine. But it's another case with 'worst of the year' lists, and by far the worst article of the year appearing in a supposedly conservative media outlet is Jonathan Last's October article in The Bulwark,
Elon Musk and Matt Taibbi’s flashy revival of Laptopgate hasn’t illuminated much beyond the right’s desperation to salvage something from their October Surprise.
Contrarian writers claim right-of-center outlets gave misleading treatment to the story of a horrifying rape in Loudoun County Public Schools.
“To suggest, as the critical race theorists do, that equality must precede liberty is simply to jettison the latter without securing the former.” — Henry Louis Gates Jr., director, Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard, writing in the New Republic, 1993 A major effort to attack critical race theory is gaining steam at the policy level, in local school boards, in the regulation of the military by Congress, and in state legislatures mooting bills that would, in some cases, restrict teaching in institutions of higher learning. It is no longer tenable for peop...