Newsom is better than Biden
I have on the desk two yo-yos. One is from the brand Duncan – the ‘Imperial’ model. The other is from the…
How NPR became a national laughing stock
The smug world of public radio in the United States received a smart slap in the face last week. It…
Claudine Gay is gone – but Harvard’s radical clerisy remain
In the end, Barack Obama, Penny Pritzker, 700-some members of the faculty, the mighty voice of the Harvard Crimson and the…
The incredible meltdown of the Center for Antiracist Research
Professor Ibram X. Kendi has run into a spot of trouble. His fantastically funded Center for Antiracist Research – more…
One worldview has taken over the historical profession
Professor James H. Sweet is a temperate man. He seeks to avoid extremes. But he also seeks to be bold…
The two Americas: California vs. Florida
What is America? The answer to that simple question can get you into a lot of trouble. Or it can…
How China meddles in American academia
“Congress has dropped language from a must-pass bill governing US defense policy that would have effectively prevented US scientists from…
E.O. Wilson and the climate cult
Famed ant specialist and sociobiologist E.O. Wilson passed away on December 26, age ninety-two. He came to national attention in 1975 with the…
Why discord delights
Finding fault takes finesse. Oh, anybody can complain. We are a nation of complainers, carping at everything from breakfast vittles to late-night…
Whither the woke?
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows is a collection of ingenuous words devised by a young man, John Koenig, who spent seven…
The New York Times and the art of the Big Lie
Lies come in all shapes and sizes, colors, odors, textures and tastes. Some are only little white lies, but more often the accompanying adjective suggests…
Democrat powerbroker's faith in the experts
Terry McAuliffe, Virginia’s former governor and Democratic power broker, is seeking to return to his old job in 2021. Polls…
We conspiracists, we happy few
What makes America America? An answer available to most of us is our shared dedication to the principles of liberty…
Is it fair to substitute equity for equality?
President Biden has stirred some controversy in recent days by his apparent preference for the word ‘equity’ over the word…
Joe Biden, high priest of the cult of woke
‘Do you think he died of dispossession?’ That’s the facetious question the nameless hero of Ralph Ellison’s 1952 novel, Invisible…
@jack is the giant
Where is Jack? You know, Jack-the-Giant-Killer? The little fellow who caught the giant Cormaran in a deadfall and dispatched him…
Hyperbole radicalism and the politics of exaggeration
‘All I want for Christmas is White genocide.’ So remarked George Ciccariello-Maher, then professor of politics and global studies at…
The poison of reparations
Reparations are a recipe for rancor. Under the guise of settling a grievance, they intensify and often eternalize it. They…
