I first encountered Nikki Giovanni, who died on Monday at the age of 81, in the pages of the 1973 edition of the Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. It was the mid-1970s, and I was an undergraduate English major, and…
Within the world of statistics and reporting, it has become fashionable to attribute any and all disparities and inequities to discrimination. This is often either grossly exaggerated or, in some cases, simply not true. With the selective omission of facts,…
With all the attention focused on President Joe Biden’s recent speech at Morehouse College, an historically black college and university (HBCU), it is amazing that Biden completely ignored the need for Morehouse in the first place. Morehouse was founded in…
Unwoke: How to Defeat Cultural Marxism in America By Ted Cruz (Regnery, 368 pages, $33) Are you woke? The very word elicits chuckles. As it should. In fact, I’m actually grateful for the word woke. It’s a silly-sounding word that…
Why do we celebrate a holiday honoring a man who was arrested and jailed twenty-nine times, and was ultimately assassinated? What lessons can we learn from this man, Martin Luther King, Jr. and from American institutions that seem to have…
I wrote about Bates College’s first two major leaguers, the first man to score a touchdown on historic Garcelon Field, and the first to blast a home run on that field (the ball rolled into a ditch). But all four…
On Tuesday, the Harvard Crimson, Harvard University’s student newspaper, published an article asserting that the plagiarism allegations against Claudine Gay raise questions about her selection as Harvard’s president. The Harvard Crimson said that the Harvard Corporation’s “concerns” over Gay’s issues…
The Hoover Institution’s Thomas Sowell has written another book — bringing the total to more than 40. Even more remarkable is that he finished writing his latest book — Social Justice Fallacies — at the age of 93. He recently…
