The big ivy-league schools well represented. As impressive as they all are-and they are- it would be more impressive to have included a few from other schools. Even at least one. What about the college in Austin you promoted so passionately in an episode of Honestly?
The big ivy-league schools well represented. As impressive as they all are-and they are- it would be more impressive to have included a few from other schools. Even at least one. What about the college in Austin you promoted so passionately in an episode of Honestly?
The discoveries of recent years point to very similar if not identical entrenched group think across the big Ivy league schools, the same far left marxist / globalist / anti American world view. Sure would have been nice to see smaller less known regional schools from fly-over country, where much of real America live.
That was my first thought as I scrolled through these credentials: where are the top students from non-Ivy-league schools? Students who have climbed by their merits instead of whatever wealth or connections or oppression points it takes to get into the Ivies?
I appreciate your turn of phrase regarding тАЬwealth connections or oppression points.тАЭ I agree with much of the sentiment expressed by others about the lack of academic diversity. And as a father of two extremely intelligent boys, I fear what doors may forever be closed to them because of the absence of wealth connections and oppression points in their lives.
Perhaps the conversation shouldn't revolve around which schools these kids come from, it's basically who these people are and their talent. In other words, are they courageous? Can they avoid self censure? Can they stand scrutiny and peer abuse?
And, just as important - can they write? Most high mark high school grads enter university (Ivy or not) not knowing a comma from a semi-colon, not able to structure a sentence or even an essay, or when to move on to the next paragraph.
I'm thinking that if these interns are any good, it wasn't the school they went to that made them that way. They had a gift before they got there..
I was thinking the same thing! My alma mater - Minnesota State University is a highly regarded midwestern college......and the students are all corn-fed-fly-over-country-natives. A great perspective that needs more attention. I hear way too much from the elite-college crowd.........
Maybe these 5 were simply most qualified, independent of their schools? I don't think of FP as a DEI hub. Each one sounds like an excellent and refreshing choice for FP's mission.
None of the critics of the academic backgrounds of these interns knows what the applicant pool actually looked like or has a clue about how college internship recruiting actually works. Anyway, best of luck to these interns. I look forward to reading their content.
That was my thought as I read the article. If FP wants diversity of ideas, choose some interns from a small rural university, like Hillsdale College or Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, Texas. I'm sure out if SFA's thousands of students there are motivated, smart students that would love to work at FP.
By only hiring interns from elitist universities makes FP look like elitist snobs. For all I know, FP is run by elitist snobs.
I had planned to add a comment just like this. By their nature they attract bright kids but also kids from a certain mindset. What about a large midwestern public uni? Or, some other ideas... a community college or someone who, gasp, hasn't been to college at all but had great and productive high school and real world experiences? Some of those young people have the most Common Sense (ЁЯШЙ) of all.
One of the greatest journalists and humorist of the 20th century, H. L. Mencken never went to college, neither did Mark Twain or Hemingway. I could go on and on as some of you know, I am wont to do but you get the idea.
Life is not about finding equitable distribution across some notion of objective categories. We started this whole charade when we began to give our children trophies for participating in activities around their towns. It needs to stop. If we want to build a true culture of mutual support, that needs to be modeled at the individual level by taking a person under your care whom you believe has potential and lacks either the resources or family support to reach their goals. All this nonsense about schools and regions and races and genders is just another participation trophy for a generation that sorely needs to learn how to accept the struggle that his life.
We have torn down so many of the positive attributes that we found in faith based communities, and we are now trying to rebuild that on the fly with an overreaching fundamentalism.
It is not at all about equitable distribution, affirmative action or any of the above. It is about mining the gold in all places, not just elite schools, though possibly these may very well be the last of the free-thinking graduates. The elite and the Ivys are all turning their attention toward woke policies and will most likely churn out a different type of person altogether pretty soon.
My hope, and the only hope that is probably sustainable, is that people will start to pay closer attention to reality. ThereтАЩs a very good piece in Substack today about the fatigue around the gender wars. Expert systems of governance require a tremendous amount of policing and compliance to be sustained. We have good evidence of this тАЬintimidation-based consensusтАЭ coming out of the Covid response. That is why most tyrannical responses fail overtime. I saw an intern from Maryland, and perhaps these undiscovered gems can navigate up through our sorting system, because there is no easy way to find them if they lack the chutzpah and initiative to make themselves findable.
I agree to a point, and I'm sure TFP were flooded with applications, so perhaps not so difficult to find their way in as to be chosen. I don't know what the process was, so that is purely based on speculation and what can be seen in the article.
Outstanding point although these students and their expressions are an inspiration to all of us concerned about the exercise of our First Amendment rights. The Ivy League is overrated by the political-media elites. These youngsters are breaking loose from the narrative we are fed everyday. They will flourish with THe Free Press.
I suppose it is a slippery slope to the long-term success of TFP as it gains solid traction, but it seems theyтАЩre creating an anti-coven (which is just more of the same old fight) rather than leading the new way.
The big ivy-league schools well represented. As impressive as they all are-and they are- it would be more impressive to have included a few from other schools. Even at least one. What about the college in Austin you promoted so passionately in an episode of Honestly?
Austin? complete bullshit. Barri has turned out to be an unabashed elite.
You mean the BS University backed by hard, right-ideologues?
CouldnтАЩt agree more.
The discoveries of recent years point to very similar if not identical entrenched group think across the big Ivy league schools, the same far left marxist / globalist / anti American world view. Sure would have been nice to see smaller less known regional schools from fly-over country, where much of real America live.
That was my first thought as I scrolled through these credentials: where are the top students from non-Ivy-league schools? Students who have climbed by their merits instead of whatever wealth or connections or oppression points it takes to get into the Ivies?
I appreciate your turn of phrase regarding тАЬwealth connections or oppression points.тАЭ I agree with much of the sentiment expressed by others about the lack of academic diversity. And as a father of two extremely intelligent boys, I fear what doors may forever be closed to them because of the absence of wealth connections and oppression points in their lives.
Perhaps the conversation shouldn't revolve around which schools these kids come from, it's basically who these people are and their talent. In other words, are they courageous? Can they avoid self censure? Can they stand scrutiny and peer abuse?
And, just as important - can they write? Most high mark high school grads enter university (Ivy or not) not knowing a comma from a semi-colon, not able to structure a sentence or even an essay, or when to move on to the next paragraph.
I'm thinking that if these interns are any good, it wasn't the school they went to that made them that way. They had a gift before they got there..
I was thinking the same thing! My alma mater - Minnesota State University is a highly regarded midwestern college......and the students are all corn-fed-fly-over-country-natives. A great perspective that needs more attention. I hear way too much from the elite-college crowd.........
Maybe these 5 were simply most qualified, independent of their schools? I don't think of FP as a DEI hub. Each one sounds like an excellent and refreshing choice for FP's mission.
In reading the comments, I have one thing to say
"FOOD FIGHT!"
Bluto Blutarsky
:-)
Thanks for this humor! I can just picture us!
None of the critics of the academic backgrounds of these interns knows what the applicant pool actually looked like or has a clue about how college internship recruiting actually works. Anyway, best of luck to these interns. I look forward to reading their content.
That was my thought as I read the article. If FP wants diversity of ideas, choose some interns from a small rural university, like Hillsdale College or Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, Texas. I'm sure out if SFA's thousands of students there are motivated, smart students that would love to work at FP.
By only hiring interns from elitist universities makes FP look like elitist snobs. For all I know, FP is run by elitist snobs.
skim the articles read the comments. that's what I do. especially the last one on the "lizard people"
It is LP, snobs and privilege people.
I had planned to add a comment just like this. By their nature they attract bright kids but also kids from a certain mindset. What about a large midwestern public uni? Or, some other ideas... a community college or someone who, gasp, hasn't been to college at all but had great and productive high school and real world experiences? Some of those young people have the most Common Sense (ЁЯШЙ) of all.
One of the greatest journalists and humorist of the 20th century, H. L. Mencken never went to college, neither did Mark Twain or Hemingway. I could go on and on as some of you know, I am wont to do but you get the idea.
ItтАЩs not what Bari and Nellie are looking for. They want the green people not the fed people.
I followed your analogy thru 'green' but wasn't sure about 'fed'. Can you help me understand that?
Correction red people
Thank you. Can I assume you are referencing politics?
Yip you can assume it ЁЯТп ЁЯЗ║ЁЯЗ╕
Life is not about finding equitable distribution across some notion of objective categories. We started this whole charade when we began to give our children trophies for participating in activities around their towns. It needs to stop. If we want to build a true culture of mutual support, that needs to be modeled at the individual level by taking a person under your care whom you believe has potential and lacks either the resources or family support to reach their goals. All this nonsense about schools and regions and races and genders is just another participation trophy for a generation that sorely needs to learn how to accept the struggle that his life.
We have torn down so many of the positive attributes that we found in faith based communities, and we are now trying to rebuild that on the fly with an overreaching fundamentalism.
I like this ms.
It is not at all about equitable distribution, affirmative action or any of the above. It is about mining the gold in all places, not just elite schools, though possibly these may very well be the last of the free-thinking graduates. The elite and the Ivys are all turning their attention toward woke policies and will most likely churn out a different type of person altogether pretty soon.
My hope, and the only hope that is probably sustainable, is that people will start to pay closer attention to reality. ThereтАЩs a very good piece in Substack today about the fatigue around the gender wars. Expert systems of governance require a tremendous amount of policing and compliance to be sustained. We have good evidence of this тАЬintimidation-based consensusтАЭ coming out of the Covid response. That is why most tyrannical responses fail overtime. I saw an intern from Maryland, and perhaps these undiscovered gems can navigate up through our sorting system, because there is no easy way to find them if they lack the chutzpah and initiative to make themselves findable.
I agree to a point, and I'm sure TFP were flooded with applications, so perhaps not so difficult to find their way in as to be chosen. I don't know what the process was, so that is purely based on speculation and what can be seen in the article.
would be interesting to know how many did apply and where they came from
Outstanding point although these students and their expressions are an inspiration to all of us concerned about the exercise of our First Amendment rights. The Ivy League is overrated by the political-media elites. These youngsters are breaking loose from the narrative we are fed everyday. They will flourish with THe Free Press.
I suppose it is a slippery slope to the long-term success of TFP as it gains solid traction, but it seems theyтАЩre creating an anti-coven (which is just more of the same old fight) rather than leading the new way.
As a WESTERN STATE lawyer, I can vouch for the abundance of brainpower west of the Delaware River.
I expressed a similar sentiment but you did so more eloquently.