There is a probably apocryphal anecdote about the two greatest authors of French literature, who just happened to be close friends. Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas were strolling by the Seine River one day in 1865, when the bells of…
A 70-year-old woman was walking her dog in one of Chicago’s most affluent neighborhoods Wednesday when she was confronted by a masked stranger who pointed a pistol in her face and shouted, “Give me your f***ing purse or I’ll kill you…
My friends outside of work often ask me about the topics that I cover. People have a real interest in the goings-on in the California Legislature, criminal justice matters, and — at least out west — the reasons for our…
St. Louis Outside Busch Stadium stands an iconic statue of “The Man,” the baseball Cardinals’ greatest player, Stan Musial. St. Louisans like to remember Musial according to Commissioner Ford Frick’s description as “baseball’s perfect knight.” During and after his career…
With states like Texas moving to legislate limits on teaching critical race theory to college students — even threatening professors’ tenure — we now see Leftist/“Progressive”/Woke professors crying about cancel culture. Poor darling marshmallows getting roasted? They might actually lose…
For the second time in the four years of the LeBron James era, the Los Angeles Lakers slinked feebly off the floor of their final regular-season game with no NBA playoff plans other than to kick back in their Barcaloungers…
In my Hollywood days, one of my best now ex-friends (his choice, not mine) worked for Disney. The gag greeting between him and his coworkers was a Nazi-like arm salute, only fist closed and thumb and pinky extended to suggest…
According to California’s draft “Mathematics Framework,” math is not just a “neutral discipline”; it also can be used to promote equity and “social justice.” Call it “Woke Math.” The authors mean well. They want to close the achievement gap between…
In 2019, when I began writing Irreversible Damage, the transgender craze quietly ravaging teenage girls for nearly a decade burst into an uncontrolled, destructive burn. The previous year, a public health researcher then at Brown University, Dr. Lisa Littman, had…