The Monday night football game between the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers was interrupted by a fellow who ran onto the field carrying a device that was releasing pink smoke. After successfully eluding the stadium’s security personnel long…
Members of the commercial, political, and cultural elite — the so-called “superclass” — are notoriously willing to overlook the human rights abuses committed in their name even as they pay lavish lip service to the loftiest ideals of public social…
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed a “trigger bill” Tuesday that would ban abortions in his state upon the reversal of Roe v. Wade. If Roe were to be either overturned or overruled by a constitutional amendment, doctors in Texas who…
On Tuesday, the UN Human Rights Council resolved to address systemic racism against Africans and people of African descent in the context of law enforcement. It was, as is usual for the UN, a setup to bash the United States….
Human rights are under siege in many nations. Three of the world’s most important countries, China, Russia, and India, are moving backward on political freedom, though the last at least still holds free elections. All three also are increasingly violating…
One of the marks of modern liberalism is its tendency to promote invented rights while denying real ones. As the Founding Fathers argued, rights derive not from government but from God, and the test of the legitimacy of a government…
“The West’s Two Faces,” editorial cartoon by Shaomin Li for The American Spectator, February 26, 2021.
In 2011, Hillary Clinton announced that the promotion of “LGBT rights” abroad formed “a priority of our foreign policy.” She scolded religiously conservative countries for regarding that agenda as a “Western phenomenon.” She instructed diplomats at the State Department to…
Before the Declaration of Independence enumerates the basic human rights that are unalienable, it states that “All men are created equal.” As a British critic of that time put it, that does not seem to be the truth in the…