Joe Biden called Donald Trump America’s “first” racist president this week. The collective shock of his supporters reflected not that he labeled the president of the United States a racist but that he absolved all of his predecessors from that…
Tuesday, July 7, is designated as #BlackoutDay2020, a campaign in which black people and progressive supporters boycott all businesses as a show of solidarity for the racial justice movement. The movement’s founder, Texan hip-hop artist and activist Calvin Martyr, posted…
Most of us are the offspring of people who came here during the great waves of unrestricted European immigration between 1880 and 1920. Our forebears did not own slaves. They were mostly peasants who could no longer eke out an…
The two great American crises of the year, coronavirus and race-focused lawlessness, crossed streams this week to produce an impeccable example of state-endorsed social justice insanity. The Public Health Office of Lincoln County, Oregon, fearing an uptick in COVID-19 cases…
I had just moved from Chicago’s Lawndale to North Park and ended up in Miss M’s eighth-grade class. Miss M was a fervent patriot, an admirer of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, and a staunch anti-communist. She was suspicious of the new…
Father Daniel Moloney is the latest victim of cancel culture’s inquisition against all who question the Black Lives Matter movement. Moloney was forced out of his job as the Catholic chaplain of MIT last week after a university administrator deemed…
Most politically savvy people will have heard of the parable of the liberal honors student whose conservative professor offers to “redistribute” her straight-A grades to her disadvantaged classmates as a way of teaching her about fairness. The analogy is potent…
Appropriating Black Lives Matter rhetoric to make bogus allegations of racism, three white Grove City College graduates recently attempted to enlist social media to destroy the reputation of Paul Kengor, a popular professor at the college. Though the female attackers…
The destruction of public monuments currently raging on both sides of the Atlantic has found an unlikely new opponent in the form of liberal French President Emmanuel Macron. Addressing French citizens in a televised speech on Sunday from the Élysée…