It appears that celebrated golfer Phil Mickelson has sunk a Saudi-sponsored golf league before it even started. Proposed as a rival to the PGA Tour, the potential league had attracted the notice of some significant golfers. But these stars are…
I ask forgiveness for not having been born poor in one of those African countries that appear in the charity calendars of Hollywood stars, for not having had a difficult childhood, for loving my parents, and for having studied in…
The Joe Rogan controversy took on a Life of Brian quality this week. “So, as a blasphemer, you are to be stoned to death,” John Cleese’s high priest informs a condemned man in the 1975 film. “Look, I had a…
The saga of podcaster extraordinaire Joe Rogan and the music/audio platform Spotify took a predictably nasty turn last week. There ought to be consequences, and Rogan should blow up the status quo. Not that I want to tell Joe Rogan…
It can sometimes feel frustrating to be part of the resistance to the legacy media. Their numbers may be slipping, and more and more news consumers are wise to the extent and nature of their perfidy, but millions of clueless…
An epidemic is ravaging college campuses and it’s not COVID. But in the long run, it may prove more deadly to the academic enterprise because it fuels uncritical thinking and leaves damaged reputations in its wake. The variants to worry…
Here’s what it means when a book is banned. Even before James Joyce finished writing Ulysses, the United States Post Office (that what it was known as back then when it was a Cabinet-level department of the federal government) confiscated issues…
The metastasis of the woke ideology, which seeps through our moribund body politic like a cancer, has shocked the conscience of many who still cling to the idea of America as a liberal bastion. One of the woke ideology’s more…
Georgetown University has decided to place conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro on administrative leave. He is currently under investigation for what he referred to as an “inartful tweet.” Shapiro, who is the vice president and director of the Robert A….
