John Leo
John Leo
John Leois a writer and editor in chief of Minding the Campus, an independent, non-profit web site on America's colleges and universities. He joined the Manhattan Institute as a senior fellow in 2007 to launch the project and developed the site at the Institute for the past 8 years. He is also a Visitor of Ralston College, a start-up liberal arts college in Savannah...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
self feelings age
In a speech, the columnist Charles Krauthammer.... offered a new version of Socrates' famous saying, "The unexamined life is not worth living." In our age of bottomless self-love and obsession with our own feelings, Krauthammer suggested, "The too-examined life is not worth living either.
school government world
Bioethics has hardened into an activist ideology that pervades the medical world, the schools, and government.
wine espresso roots
Compared with other Americans, journalists are more likely to live in upscale neighborhoods, have maids, own Mercedes and trade stocks, and less likely to go to church, do volunteer work or put down roots in a community. Journalists are over-represented in ZIP code areas where residents are twice as likely as other Americans to rent foreign movies, drink Chablis, own an espresso maker and read magazines such as Architectural Digest and Food & Wine.
media opposites diversity
The diversity revolution [in the news media] was supposed to increase readership and enhance credibility. Just the opposite has resulted. How long will it take the business to figure this out?
war fighting sight
[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.
wish bitterness multitudes
We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.
hands executives subordinates
... a meddler who cannot leave his subordinates alone is a hands on executive.
believe should-have america
The political terms 'will' and 'popular will' have a long track record in Western history going back to Rousseau. That record is profoundly anti-democratic, essentially inviting elites to interpret what the common people believe and want. In litigious modern America, that would be a judicial elite telling us how we meant to vote or should have voted.
europe america people
Expert victimologists estimate that 91.2 percent of people in North America and Europe now qualify as victims, at least in their own minds.
winning debate ifs
If winning is the only value, why debate when you can suppress?
race modern gender
The modern campus is deeply obsessed by race and gender, and not much else.
change fashion erotic
By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.