

Jack Cashill
With the election of a self-declared “lesbian Marxist” to be its new president, the American Library Association (ALA) gave away the game. Now, only the naïve can think of the ALA’s upcoming “Banned Books Week” as a celebration of free…
Here’s how bad it has gotten. In a small Republican-leaning town, in a Trump +20 county, the local library board felt free to “disinvite” from speaking a mainstream conservative author with a dozen C-SPAN Book-TVs under his belt. That author…
As I read in the Guardian, an operation called “Reframing Race” has accepted as its mission the task of teaching people, white people in particular, the semantic niceties of racial etiquette. Some of the stuff we have heard before, such…
Just when I begin to think that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has escaped the gravitational pull of his party, he crashes back to earth with a thud. Grounding Kennedy this time was affirmative action. Last Thursday, he weighed in on…
On June 7, I was one of five panelists, two of us white, to participate in an American Public Square discussion on the subject of reparations for African Americans. The discussion will air multiple times on the Kansas City PBS…
Michelle Obama appears to be the next Democrat figurehead. In a May 14 Wall Street Journal op-ed, Douglas Schoen and Andrew Stein give voice to a fear that has been haunting those deranged by the very thought of Donald Trump:…
It’s no secret people have been fleeing America’s cities for the past three years. According to the Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan public policy organization, more than two million people left our cities between July 2020 and July 2022. In…
Maybe I missed something in ghostwriting class, but I always thought the ghostwriter’s job was to remain as ghostly as possible. The book, I thought, should be the author’s — his or her life, thoughts, ideas, and, as far as…
In a November 2021 press conference, Grio reporter April Ryan asked Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg a question that seemed to make sense to him, if to no one else. “Can you give us the construct,” Ryan asked, “of how you…