One of the big kerfuffles in women’s sports right now is only tangentially about sports. It’s mostly about race. It involves, also tangentially, Caitlin Clark, the sharpshooting basketball phenom for the University of Iowa who is tearing through college records…
Monday was a holiday dedicated to the memory of the greatest American civil rights leader of the 20th century: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. But while the airwaves were covered with shallow tributes to the man, in 2024 it’s clear…
In case you thought that there was some sort of victory afoot at Harvard University for conservatives/meritocrats/sane humans, let me disabuse you of that notion and warn you that the fight on that front has only just begun. With the…
I would rather not have another national conversation about race in America. But if we must, can we at least not have the same conversation about race in America? Since the Supreme Court told Harvard that it can no longer…
“Happy Holidays From Mayor Wu,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator, Dec. 14, 2023.
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…
How would you answer this question: What is the measure of a man? Martin Luther King Jr. weighed in with this perspective: “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but…
Carron J. Phillips should win a Pulitzer Prize for his thoughtful Deadspin piece labeling a nine-year-old white boy a genocidal, African/Native American-hating racist for inexplicably wearing blackface to a football game. Phillips, himself an oppressed minority because he is black…
Boy, this has been some week! Since Thanksgiving, I’ve lost count of the radio shows, podcasts, and other media hits I’ve done in promoting Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama, the outstanding must-read which you’re all inevitably going to…
Racism, Revenge and Ruin: It’s All Obama By Scott McKay (Calamo Press, 312 pages, $30) Upon Barack Obama’s exit from the presidential office on Jan. 20, 2017, a conservative could not be faulted for thinking to himself that America had…