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by | Feb 24, 2024

One figure that liberals haven’t commemorated this Black History Month is Eldridge Cleaver, the Black Panther Party ringleader of the 1960s. The reason is no great mystery: Had Cleaver remained a radical leftist, he would be hailed by the Left…

by | Feb 2, 2024

This Sunday’s television lineup may look a little bare without the customary evening NFL games, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up watching TV. Instead, tune in to EWTN’s popular show Franciscan University Presents to watch the editor…

by | Nov 6, 2023

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…

by | Sep 28, 2023

Editor’s Note: This piece on race and the civil rights movement is the fourth in a series by Speaker Gingrich on American despotism. Listen to The American Spectator’s exclusive interview with the speaker here. Find the rest of the series here. The…

by | Aug 18, 2023

Between Fani Willis’ indictment, the denouement of The Blind Side, and Podesta — man, what a week, huh? It’s that old Chinese saying, “May you live in interesting times,” just manifested right in our faces. Of course, that old saying…

by | Aug 8, 2023

On Juneteenth, I decided to celebrate by visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Met currently has a variety of fascinating exhibits on display, including the Afrocentric Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room, The African Origin of…

by | Jul 8, 2023

Last week, California released the final report of its Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans with more than 100 recommendations. Like every ill-conceived virtue-signaling dreamchild conceived by California’s ultra-progressive legislature, the task force boasts that…

by | Jun 20, 2023

On Monday, we were regaled nationwide with a cacophony of warbling about Juneteenth, which is a new federal holiday commemorating the day in 1865 that Union troops landed at Galveston to begin enforcing the Emancipation Proclamation and ending slavery in…

by | Jun 16, 2023

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…

by | Mar 30, 2023

San Francisco is ground zero for reparation demands. Its Board of Supervisors voiced “enthusiastic support” for a list of proposals, including $5 million for every eligible Black adult and guaranteed annual incomes of at least $97,000 for 250 years. Supervisors…

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