Schroeder’s Corner
The Standard Christmas Message – The Hugh Hewitt Show
It’s the Fourth Sunday of Advent, “Love” Sunday, Christmas Sunday. There is a standard sermon for this occasion I have heard countless time in my life – that Christmas is about Jesus, not presents – that Christmas is a spiritual event, not a…
The Antisemitism Import/Export Business – The Hugh Hewitt Show
I grew up on comic books written by WWII veterans. Many of those comics, especially Captain America, used Nazi sleeper cells as enemies. The premise was simple, the Third Reich had planted cells of agents in the Allied world that then…
China Will Lose, Unless We Help Them Win
I worked in the People’s Republic of China in the late 1980’s, just as they were attempting to liberalize their economy. It seemed a time of great promise. The Soviet Union was falling and China seemed determined to avoid the same fate and so…
Meme Wars – Everywhere There Are Meme Wars
Last night’s presidential address was part of the ongoing meme wars. Democrats and their willing allies in media are trying desperately to make this administration look bad. They report the bad, ignore the good and spin whatever they can. …
The Effect of Grade Inflation No One Talks About
Fox recently looked at the mounting evidence of grade inflation. Covid has accelerated it and “raised awareness” (can we officially call that turn of phrase a cliché yet?) about it, but the problem existed well before. The video piece in the…
Sometimes, Everyone Is A Victim and Everyone Is At Fault
Yesterday saw the politicization of what is the most tragic small story I have encountered in a long time. Families often carry a lot of tragedy, but rarely does that tragedy extend all the way to parricide. Parricide accounts for only about…
The World I Thought I Would Never See
Terrorists calmly firing into a crowd at a Hanukkah celebration. Screams. Panic. Parents fleeing with hysterical children. Victims lying dead on the sand. That is the “globalized intifada” that tens of thousands of people around the world have…
The Lessons We Need To Learn
Lesson 1: Be careful with your bragging. First the host’s beloved, as he tells us constantly, Ohio State loses the Big Ten football championship (something he barely mentioned this past week) to former Big Ten doormat Indiana University (a name…
Hyperbolic Clickbait – The Hugh Hewitt Show
I get it all the time – usually about sports – a prompt, notification or alert about a story so astonishing that you just have to click. And when you get there, the claims that lead you there are quite hyperbolic if not outright lies. The…
Science Is Dead, Long Live Politics
In 2020 I noted “The Sad Death of A Once Great Magazine” as Scientific American did what no self-respecting science magazine should do – endorse a presidential candidate. I concluded “Specialty journalism is officially dead – consumed by…