As soon as the verdict was delivered in the Kyle Rittenhouse trial, MSNBC and like-minded news outlets pushed a consensus summarized most succinctly by Colin Kaepernick: “We just witnessed a system built on white supremacy validate the terroristic acts of…
Kyle Rittenhouse’s acquittal is a dramatic affirmation of the right to self-defense and a huge blow to the gun control movement. This drama is a long way from over. If people such as Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and BLM activist…
Ignatius Press has released a paperback expanded edition of Robert Reilly’s monumental book, America on Trial: A Defense of the Founding. I reviewed the first edition, most favorably, for The American Spectator this past December, opining that “Robert R. Reilly takes on…
Affirmative action as practiced by universities today is characterized by total lawlessness. It is in blatant violation of the bounds ruled permissible in Grutter v. Bollinger in 2003. While the Court said that affirmative action must be narrowly tailored, colleges today…
Here’s a suggestion for thought: Constantly, nonstop, on the social media (really should be called the “anti-social media”) there are endless stories about how famous geniuses like Al Sharpton and Hillary Clinton have accused the United States of America of…
Even European liberals have taken to complaining about American “wokeness.” French President Emmanuel Macron, who is hardly a conservative, has denounced “certain social science theories entirely imported from the United States.” America’s poisonous identity politics, he says, is infecting French…
In a CNN interview with Anderson Cooper that aired in June, Barack Obama weighed in on perceived GOP anxieties. Instead of worrying about the economy and climate change, worries he thought appropriate for Republicans, “Lo and behold,” he told Cooper,…
If you want to know, up close and personal, the banality of evil, attend a school board meeting. With critical race theory and forced vaccination and masking all the rage, I did just that last night. This board meeting wasn’t…
In 1999, I practiced complex civil business litigation at the Los Angeles offices of one of the 10 most prominent law firms in California: Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe. Heller Ehrman was the most left-wing major law firm you could…
