The trials and tribulations of Claudine Gay, the former president of Harvard University who resigned this week after being exposed as both a Jew-hatred apologist and a serial plagiarist, perfectly expose America’s cultural divide. To the Right, she is the…
I write this week as a very different man than I was when writing my last column. Then, I was merely engaged; now, after the single greatest week of my life culminated in the single greatest day and night of…
I should be congratulated on my courage. I’ve managed to finish watching Jill Biden’s Christmas video without throwing up, and that’s much more than can be said for the average viewer. “Magic, wonder, and joy” is her motto. Perfect for…
As the old line from astronaut lore would have it, “Houston, we have a problem.” The problem in this case, as vividly illustrated by the controversy swirling around the anti-Semitism charges against the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard…
I attended a wedding last weekend, celebrating the nuptials of the fourth of my college friends to get married since we graduated in May of last year. The countercultural nature of young marriage isn’t lost on me or my friends….
Taylor Swift is Time magazine’s Person of the Year, ending the suspense that, in the days and hours leading up to the announcement, was nigh on unendurable. Recalling football coach John Mackay’s line along the lines of: “win or lose,…
Carron J. Phillips should win a Pulitzer Prize for his thoughtful Deadspin piece labeling a nine-year-old white boy a genocidal, African/Native American-hating racist for inexplicably wearing blackface to a football game. Phillips, himself an oppressed minority because he is black…
As you polish off the last of the leftover Thanksgiving turkey and stuffing, your thoughts are probably turning to the coming Christmas season and the mountain of gifts you’re about to buy. You’ve already begun stringing lights in the bitter…
About twenty years ago, colleges and universities began chasing men away. In part due to the U.S. civil rights law called Title IX, in part due to the pendulum swinging back from male dominance, and in part due to a…
