Bernard Chapin's blog
Posted at 9:32am on Jul. 8, 2008 The Oprahization of Education.
By Bernard Chapin
I just read this piece over at Pajamas
http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-oprahization-of-academia/
and have to say it's one of the best articles I've read all year--and no I did not write it, lol. Simply outstanding in my view. I wouldn't change a word:
"Oprah is us. Course offerings on Oprah appear in college catalogs, while those on Milton disappear. The same fate is befalling living intellectuals.
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Posted at 10:18am on Jun. 20, 2008 Should Women Rule the Earth?
By Bernard Chapin
I just slammed Dee Dee Myers’ horrendous new book, Why Women Should Rule the World, in an episode of Chapin’s Inferno. I hope my thrashing was sufficient. If not, as always, I’ll respond to counter-arguments.
Here's the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shTt4piqqTo
We can sum up the poverty of Ms. Myers’s propositions with her take on the support Hillary received in New Hampshire after she crying on camera: “As voters watched it for themselves, women in particular seemed to conclude that her emotion was real—and that it was appropriate. Moreover, they felt her pain, and they decided to help end it. The following day, women flocked to the polls.”
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Posted at 7:32pm on Jun. 18, 2008 Aphorisms, Proverbs, Sayings what have you.
By Bernard Chapin
I've been collecting these for awhile. Let me know what you think or if you can use any of them. I apologize for their over-religious nature. If someone else has said this stuff before please give me a heads up as I don't want to be a plagiarist.
veritaseducation@gmail.com
“To be absorbed with self is to extinguish life.”
“Men are the direct sex; their labors erected civilization while their current efforts perpetuate it.”
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Posted at 1:32pm on May 18, 2008 The Pick Up Diaries
By Bernard Chapin
Few topics produce interest like women. Both sexes are fascinated with them. Men love to gaze at their navels while women love to navel gaze. Indeed, one could even argue that our entire society is predicated on meeting the needs of the fair sex which precisely what I posit in Women: Theory and Practice.
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Posted at 4:27am on May 6, 2008 Memorable Speech
By Bernard Chapin
David Yezzi is Executive Editor of The New Criterion and a well-known poet whose published collections include The Hidden Model and Sad is Eros. His essays have appeared at Poetry, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, The New York Sun, and The New Yorker. He has earned degrees from Carnegie Mellon University and Columbia University School of the Arts. His latest book is what occasioned this interview.
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Posted at 2:51pm on Apr. 27, 2008 White Guilt?
By Bernard Chapin
Nothing is more fraudulent than calls for a “dialogue on race.”
Those who issue such calls are usually quick to cry “racism” at
any frank criticism. They are almost invariably seeking a
monologue on race, to which others are supposed to listen.
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Posted at 6:26am on Apr. 23, 2008 Enduring Victory? An Interview with Al Regnery.
By Bernard Chapin
Alfred S. Regnery is the former president and publisher of Regnery Publishing, Inc. During his time there the company released twenty-two New York Times bestsellers. Mr. Regnery is the publisher of The American Spectator and has been with the magazine since May of 2003. Mr. Regnery is also a lawyer and served in the Justice Department of the Reagan Administration. He worked for the U.S. Senate Staff, and had a career in private practice as well.
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Posted at 4:30am on Apr. 17, 2008 Rape Charge Slaughter
By Bernard Chapin
[Don't read this if you have a weak stomach]
I got an email from a friend with this link today. DNA testing resulted in the release of Thomas Clifford McGowan after 23 years in the slammer. He said, “I've been living a life of a living hell and my nightmare is finally over with. This is the first day of my life. I'm going to go forward.” I hope so for whatever that’s worth. May he live to 90 and I hope Texas gives him 2 million in damages.
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Posted at 3:06am on Apr. 16, 2008 Cultural Critique by Gene Lalor
By Bernard Chapin
Gene Lalor has written an erudite and concise work, called A Immodest Proposal for Ending and Winning the War on Terror: A Curmudgeon's Plan for Survival,
http://www.amazon.com/Immodest-Proposal-Ending-Winning-Terror/dp/0595466...
which is more a critique of our politically correct culture than it is a book concerning foreign policy, however, so the title is somewhat misleading.
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Posted at 2:03pm on Mar. 28, 2008 Liberal Fascism
By Bernard Chapin
“We’re not interested in social reconstruction;
it’s human reconstruction…”
Who better to quote at the start of a review concerning a book entitled Liberal Fascism The Secret History of the American Left, From Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning than Hillary Rodham Clinton?
http://www.amazon.com/Liberal-Fascism-American-Mussolini-Politics/dp/038...
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Posted at 8:31am on Mar. 25, 2008 Submissives for Hillary
By Bernard Chapin
What’s the latest outrage from The New York Times? Perhaps it’s Kate Zernike, a reporter there (from what I can gather I found no google reference to a specific title) who wrote an opinion column entitled “Post-feminism and Other Fairy Tales” which appeared in their “Week in Review” section.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/weekinreview/16zern.html?_r=2&oref=slo...
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Posted at 1:24pm on Mar. 23, 2008 Feminist Fantasies
By Bernard Chapin
What do you call someone who thinks “the personal is political?” I suppose you could call them things like “uninformed, narcissistic, and delusional” but what I favor is “self-absorbed freak.” It has a nice ring to it but is highly descriptive as well because anyone who regards themselves as being more important than society, humanity, and the animal kingdom is undeniably a freak and one who failed to get past the initial stages of egoism that most of us surmount before entering kindergarten.
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Posted at 8:55am on Mar. 11, 2008 Barack’s Trustafarians
By Bernard Chapin
"We are the ones we've been waiting for.
We are the change that we seek."
—The Sound Byte previously
known as “Barack.”
There is no question a generation gap exists between the supporters of Barack Obama and the other candidates for the presidency. This is particularly true in regards to his rival for the Democratic Party nomination, Hillary Clinton. Obama is all the rage among college voters and their fealty may sweep him into office by November. He pays extra-special attention to the young and has courted them in ways some consider unethical.
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Posted at 9:54am on Mar. 3, 2008 The Science of Female Supremacy
By Bernard Chapin
This is an interview I conducted with Steve Moxon in regards to his new book: The Woman Racket: The New Science Explaining How the Sexes Relate at Work, at Play and in Society. Here's the link:
http://www.amazon.com/Woman-Racket-Steve-Moxon/dp/1845401093/ref=pd_bbs_...
I realize that Red Staters like short pieces but if you're really interested in the subject why not take a gander because he's really got an awful lot to say.
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Posted at 6:09am on Feb. 29, 2008 Anxious Days Indeed Interview.
By Bernard Chapin
Book Link:
http://www.amazon.com/Brief-History-Anxiety-Yours-Mine/dp/1596912987/ref...
Patricia Pearson is a writer who possesses a plethora of interests. A great deal of information concerning her can be found at her website, called “Pearson’s Post.” She has won numerous awards and is a regular contributor to The USA Today, and Canada’s National Post. Her work has also appeared in Spy, Chatelaine, the New York Times, the Times of London, New York Observer, Redbook, the Guardian, Nerve, Shift, and Saturday Night. Mrs. Pearson has authored several books such as Believe Me, When She Was Bad: Violent Women and the Myth of Innocence, and Life on a French Poster. At present, she lives with her family in Toronto, Canada. The release of her latest book occasioned my second interview with her.
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