Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation on Monday that bans state funding for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in Florida’s universities. DeSantis enacted the law on the campus of New College of Florida amid protests from students, saying that…
This last week, President Joe Biden spoke at Howard University — one of America’s “leading, historically Black institutions,” as the university self-describes — in college-commencement-speech form. And, in typical form, the president who views the world through the lens of racial…
The Broadway musical Parade received six Tony Award nominations on Tuesday. Given the production’s critical praise and popularity, the accolades unsurprisingly include Best Revival of a Musical, Best Actor (Ben Platt), and Best Actress (Micaela Diamond). The music is fantastic. The singing,…
Academic- and government-sponsored misinformation based on “the science” may have become a focal point during the COVID pandemic, but it is nothing new. Like Ptolemy needing extremely complex models to explain the observed movements of the sun and the planets…
Although I’ve occasionally run across Scott Adams’ long-running comic strip, Dilbert, and have found it amusing, I’m not an office worker — his target audience — and so I sometimes fail to get the joke. Nor have I read any…
Angela Davis bought the guns used in a courthouse raid that murdered a judge, and she later served as Gus Hall’s running mate on the Communist Party presidential ticket. But the former member of the FBI’s Most Wanted list also…
WASHINGTON — I have long held to the belief that the most conformist institutions in America are its universities. More recently, I have come to the conclusion that high schools are joining the ranks of universities in regimenting thought among…
Who killed Tyre Nichols? The 29-year-old father, lensman, and skateboarder drove home after capturing the sunset in a Memphis park on Jan. 7. “Photography helps me look at the world in a more creative way,” Nichols stated on his website….
During the last few years, most conservatives have become at least dimly aware that leftist ideology, in the guise of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), has infected public education. It’s unlikely, however, that many Americans realize just how far the…
In campaign speeches across the fruited plain, conservative candidates talk a good anti-woke game, pointing out rightly what a danger radical leftist cultural schemes are to what’s left of American civilization and promising to do something to stop them. Too…