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Bruce Newsome’s The Dark Side of Sunshineis a provocative debut novel. Through the Candide-like adventures of his alter ego, Simon Ranald, Newsome satirizes the woke ideology, cynical self-promotion, and corrupt scholarship prevailing on U.S. and U.K. campuses. The satire recalls earlier university novels like Mary McCarthy’s The Groves of Academe, Malcolm Bradbury’s The History Man and David Lodge’s Changing Places. Surprisingly, despite the wealth of material currently available, the genre has fallen into desuetude. Like everything else on the contemporary campus, it has been cancelled, this time by the publishing industry itself rather than by deplatforming students. Newsome, a former lecturer in international politics at the University of California, Berkeley, has, to his credit, made a brave attempt to revive it.
The University of Sunshine, Bayside, on America’s West coast, is the best public university in the world, “because it is the most enlightened university in the world” says the university president.
British exchange lecturer Dr. Simon Ranald soon finds himself out of his depth. Despite teaching international politics at London’s politically correct Riverside University, Simon finds the Bayside campus an altogether more challenging proposition. On the most progressive campus in America, the World and International Studies Programme (WISP) doesn’t teach war, only peace. The history department, which does teach war, “is so last century.” Meanwhile the Director of Asian Studies prefers Asia to the west because it has “no white racism.”
Identity is everything on the Bayside campus and microaggressions are detectable everywhere. As one sympathetic student tells “pale, male and stale” Simon, he will have to pretend to be “melanin and estrogen challenged.” His British accent, too, is a worry at a university where glorifying imperialism is a sackable offense. This, however, is only the beginning of Simon’s woes. His head of department reprimands him for assigning too much course reading. Bayside students “expect their lecturers to tell them what not to read” and prefer learning in “less prescriptive ways,” finding their inner voices by constructing “narratives .” A cynical program director explains the system:
“It is really a sham. We validate the instructors, so that they can validate the students”
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Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
To those who have the means, we ask that you please donate. We have options available now, but there is no telling when those options will cancel us. We have our GivingFuel page. There have been many who have been canceled by PayPal, but for now it’s still an option. Your generosity is what keeps these sites running and allows us to get the truth to the masses. We’ve had great success in growing but we know we can do more with your assistance.
Thank you, and God Bless!
JD Rucker
