Founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, Starbucks Corporation has become a beverage and lifestyle behemoth, aspiring to bring the cozy, old-world coffeehouses of Vienna to the United States and elsewhere — and to be woke in the process. According to…
So our readers will know, for the near entirety of your author’s life, pro and college sports have been an obsession. Looking back on it, probably an unhealthy one. Age and maturity and the vicissitudes of 21st-century life are sharply…
One of the more interesting periodicals of the hard-left, Jacobin, used to have a book review column for old and new conservative titles called “Books we read, so you don’t have to.” It included mostly mass-market polemics the outlet’s average…
Bad News: How Woke Media is Undermining Democracy By Batya Ungar-Sargon (Encounter Books, 234 pages, $29) At first glance, it seems odd that the charge of “racism” or “racist” should grow exponentially in the United States at a time when…
With inflation, crime, and social discord surging at home and tyrannies such as China and Russia resurgent abroad, Americans face tremendous challenges. Recent polls show we’re dissatisfied with our country’s present and worried about its future. We have good reason…
There has been an enormous backlash to the 1619 Project, causing it to be banned from public school curriculums in Florida and Texas. But the purveyors of the 1619 Project’s false history, namely the nonprofit Pulitzer Center, which first devised…
In case you missed it, on Friday night Tucker Carlson ditched the opening monologue he was going to talk about, which had to do with the impending military conflict between Russia and Ukraine or the fresh Castro-esque tyranny in Canada,…
Two signs with anti-Asian slurs were posted on Harvard Undergraduate Council President Michael Cheng’s door Monday, according to the Harvard Crimson. The signs also carried a political message, saying, “Save the UC.” It’s unclear exactly what the slurs were. Cheng…
How much can you blame Whoopi Goldberg? The very language we all use has been irradiated until it produces mutant offspring. It’s a process that’s been going on for a long time. Let’s take an old example. When the word…