There is only one thing that bothers me more than waking up and that is being woken up. I hate waking up in the morning, getting up, rousing, getting out of bed, and all that. If I could, I would…
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill voted on Monday to dump its DEI program and revert those funds to campus police. That’s great news, but it’s hardly the only evidence that the cultural winds may be shifting away…
Sports Illustrated unleashed the latest salvo in its crusade against masturbation this week by placing Gayle King in a bathing suit on its cover. Call it penance for when SI allied against the prudes in the war on masturbation by…
Writing in this space five months ago, I argued that an anti-woke counterrevolution was starting on American campuses. While that is certainly even more true today, I am seeing increased signs of a more widespread revolt against relentless attacks on…
It took three years for legendary journalist and social mores chronicler Tom Wolfe’s first work of fiction The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987) to be adapted for the silver screen. Unfortunately, the 1990 Brian De Palma film starring Tom Hanks,…
Something is very wrong. It’s the problem without a name. I used to think it was my fault. Please understand, with some exceptions, but for more than a half century, I have been blessed by the most impressive assistants: Hard…
American universities rode a tall wave of public esteem in the last few decades. In the Information Age, the value of learning naturally soars. By 2008, the chaos and violence of the Sixties and Seventies campuses was so forgotten that…
Ever since June of 2022, when Arizona became the first state to legalize universal school choice, the adoption of this K–12th grade education reform has accelerated well beyond even its boosters’ wildest dreams. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina,…
Perhaps it’s a sop to the aging liberals who still make up the bulk of the readership of the New York Times, but, for some reason, this weekend James Carville was a featured subject in a well-traveled column by Maureen…
