When did we decide that arguing was intolerable? Possibly it was when we determined that arguments were not about whether we were right or wrong but whether we were good or bad. We had to be right (we are good),…
Bright Sheng, a professor of composition at the University of Michigan, will no longer be teaching a seminar analyzing the works of Shakespeare after he faced backlash for showing students the 1965 film version of Othello. David Gier, dean of…
While getting espresso at my favorite coffee shop, I asked two uniformed police officers in line ahead of me if they felt supported by their leaders or not. The first man laughed and said, “No way. We have the same…
Tucker Carlson has taken a moment to recall a past that is, sadly, gone for good. In his newest book, The Long Slide: Thirty Years in American Journalism, Tucker puts together a collection of his magazine pieces written over the…
In 1951, a brash, young college graduate sent shock waves through the American establishment. Bill Buckley (Yale ’50) published his instant bestseller, God and Man at Yale. In what was to become Buckley’s well-known style, he laid bare the “extraordinarily…
Now that the cancel culture crazies are trying to change the names of birds to avoid stigmatizing I don’t know who, I don’t want to pass up my contribution to the updating of the ornithological guide 2021, with the inclusion…
A climate activism group based out of Auckland, New Zealand, has disbanded after canceling itself for racism. In a Facebook post last Saturday, the organization “School Strike 4 Climate Auckland” declared that it would cease operations “under the suggestion and guidance”…
Washington and Lee University has announced that it will keep its name. In normal times that would seem unexceptional. Both Washington and Lee long have been honored as exceptional men. But both the leading revolutionary general and first president and…
Corporations appear intent on making America choke on woke. Their stance seems counterintuitive. After all, Woke is the counterculture and historically nothing is more mainstream than corporate America. Yet corporations have a host of reasons — ranging from top-floor leadership…
