Chester Finch (he/him) is a film critic and the Robert Mapplethorpe Professor of Pre-Colonial Criticism at Harvard University’s Department of Inclusionary Art. Right-wing provocateur and Daily Wire blogger Matt Walsh recently befouled American movie theaters with his immoral hate flick,…
Want to go to Mars? NASA is recruiting. Crew Health and Performance Exploration Analog, or CHAPEA, consists of “simulated one-year Mars surface mission[s]” located right here on Earth, based at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The upcoming mission…
One of the big kerfuffles in women’s sports right now is only tangentially about sports. It’s mostly about race. It involves, also tangentially, Caitlin Clark, the sharpshooting basketball phenom for the University of Iowa who is tearing through college records…
Journalism experienced one of its darkest days last week when the Los Angeles Times laid off 115 of my fellow left-wing activists, roughly 20 percent of the entire staff. Already the reverberations are being felt in Hollywood, where crucial journalistic…
Monday was a holiday dedicated to the memory of the greatest American civil rights leader of the 20th century: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But while the airwaves were covered with shallow tributes to the man, in 2024 it’s clear…
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…
Dutch citizens are fighting a losing battle against the anti-racist version of the celebrations of Saint Nicholas, but the huge election victory of anti-immigration politician Geert Wilders has given them a shot in the arm. Abandoned by the political establishment,…
If you hear of your school district making math more inclusive or bending mathematics to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, run for the hills! It’s time to find a new school. Recently, Pittsburgh’s Public Schools Board approved a $50,000…
The winds of World War III are blowing, not at a gale, but more than a breeze. Like a long-forgotten and unmissed uncle, anti-Semitism is back in town and threatens to stick around for a while. Washington, D.C., is simultaneously…
