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Charlie Sykes
Charlie Sykes
American
Born: Nov 11, 1954
Also Conservative Education Long Time World
Related authors: Bikram Choudhury Jocko Willink Louis Zamperini Mahavira Michael McDonald Thomas Frey Tony Evans
Despite the evidence that we already have too many students in higher education, the hot new idea among the political class is to double down by pushing for 'free college tuition.' The problem with the 'free college' idea is, however, not merely financial. It also reinforces the myth that college is appropriate or even possible for all students. Charlie Sykes
Education Class Problem Financial Political College Free Higher Education Myth Down Too Despite Appropriate Evidence Possible Higher Students Pushing Hot Merely Idea New Also New Idea However Political Class Tuition The Problem With Double Many Even Among
I have a confession to make. When I was a child, I was a chronic, repeat doodler. Charlie Sykes
Confession Chronic Make Repeat Child
In our era of zero tolerance, I would surely have spent most of elementary and middle school shuttling between suspensions and expulsions, with an occasional time out for social studies. Charlie Sykes
Time School Tolerance Our Spent Out Would Studies Between Most Occasional Surely Era Middle Middle School Social Elementary Zero Zero Tolerance
We have to have a revival of the concept 'truth matters.' Charlie Sykes
Truth Matters Concept Revival
Since the election, President Trump has shown a persistent penchant for conspiracy-minded suggestions about his political opponents and elements of his own government. Charlie Sykes
Government Political Election Own President President Trump About Since Opponents His Trump Political Opponents Persistent Shown Elements Suggestions
It is an uphill fight to persuade workers that the minimum wage is not in their interest. Charlie Sykes
Fight Minimum Minimum Wage Wage Uphill Interest Workers Persuade
Conservatives spent an awful long time ignoring things: the birthers, the bigots, the xenophobes, the alternative-reality media. We had assumed that they were postcards from the fringe. Charlie Sykes
Time Long Long Time Assumed Conservatives Spent Postcards Had Were Fringe Bigots Ignoring Media Awful Things
I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party. Charlie Sykes
Future Thought Long Party Admired Him Republican Republican Party Paul Paul Ryan
When it became clear that I was going to remain #NeverTrump, conservatives I had known and worked with for more than two decades organized boycotts of my show. Charlie Sykes
Conservatives More Remain Had Clear Known Became Boycott Than Decades Going Worked Show Organized Two
Unless you have experienced it, it's difficult to describe the virulence of the Twitter storms that were unleashed on Trump skeptics. Charlie Sykes
You Difficult Twitter Unleashed Unless Were Trump Experienced Storms Describe
Both the Left and the Right need to connect as people rather than as political entities. Charlie Sykes
People Political Entities Rather Both Left Than Connect Right Need
On his first full day in office, Mr. Trump insisted that his inaugural crowd was the largest ever, a baseless boast that will likely set a pattern for his relationship both to the media and to the truth. Charlie Sykes
Truth Day Relationship Will First Insisted Both Crowd Likely His Trump Office Pattern Boast Full Media Ever Largest Set
Mr. Trump understands that attacking the media is the reddest of meat for his base, which has been conditioned to reject reporting from news sites outside of the conservative media ecosystem. Charlie Sykes
News Conservative Has-Been Attacking Outside Ecosystem Understands Been His Conditioned Trump Reporting Sites Which Meat Base Media Reject
Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter. Charlie Sykes
Better Matter Will Conservatism Philosophy Better Off Facts Off Movement Reality-Based Really Should
At one time, the Left had a monopoly not merely of the media and academia, but also of the world of policy think tanks. Charlie Sykes
Time World Think Monopoly One Time Had Merely Academia Also Policy Tanks Left Media
For decades, conservatives have struggled with containing crackpottery, most notably William F. Buckley's famous excommunication of the John Birch Society in the 1960s. Charlie Sykes
Society Birch Conservatives William John Struggled Containing Most Decades Famous
For the anti-anti-Trump pundit, whatever the allegation against Mr. Trump, whatever his blunders or foibles, the other side is always worse. Charlie Sykes
Whatever Other Side Worse Allegation Always His Trump Blunders Against
With a vast majority of conservative voters and listeners solidly behind Mr. Trump, conservative critics of the president find themselves isolated and under siege. Charlie Sykes
Conservative President Siege Find Critics Vast Vast Majority Voters Majority Isolated Trump Behind Listeners Themselves
Academic culture is not merely indifferent to teaching, it is actively hostile to it. Charlie Sykes
Culture Indifferent Hostile Merely Academic Teaching Actively
The dumbing down of elementary and secondary education has made its way to the collegiate level; too many unprepared students are admitted despite their inability to do college-level work. Charlie Sykes
Work Education Made Down Too Secondary Secondary Education Despite Way Unprepared Admitted Students Inability Many Elementary Level
In 2008, conservatives ridiculed the Left for its adulation of Barack Obama, only to succumb to their own cult of personality eight years later. Charlie Sykes
Personality Own Conservatives Later Obama Only Adulation Cult Years Left Eight Barack Barack Obama Succumb Ridiculed
White liberals face this cognitive dissonance: if they decide that America is ready for a black president and back Obama, they would also be forced to surrender or at least modify decades of convictions about American bias. Charlie Sykes
Surrender Black Face Convictions White President Back Liberals Obama Would About Bias Also Forced Ready Least Decades America American Decide Modify Cognitive
During dull moments at school, I admit, I not only drew soldiers shooting one another but also tanks, bombers, fighters, and even the occasional space ship with planet-destroying powers. Charlie Sykes
School Space Soldiers Admit Drew Only Also Powers Occasional Another Tanks Dull Ship Shooting Fighters Moments Even Bombers
We desperately need to have a public that actually cares whether things are true of not. Charlie Sykes
Cares Desperately True Whether Public Actually Things Need
I am less horrified by Trump himself than by what he has done to the rationalizers and enablers. Charlie Sykes
Horrified He Himself Am Trump Than Done Less
I knew Buckley - he was a friend of mine - and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them. Charlie Sykes
Mine William He Knew Steve Empowered Friend Them Marginalized
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