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Facebook’s latest public-relations nightmare increasingly looks likely (and finally) to be the proximate cause of regulation or, at least, interrogation of the company for its […]
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Marching Madness
In case you weren’t around for the radical tomfoolery in the 1960s, you’re now seeing the sequel. This time, however, with the ubiquity of social […]
The Condition of the Twerking Class in England
The country that gifted George Orwell to civilization is about to jail a young comedian for making a joke. Yes. Great Britain, one-time incubator of […]
Reject the ‘March for Our Lives’
The March for Our Lives was nothing more than political theater. Young, would-be social activists and their handlers seized upon the trauma of our society […]
Trump-Era Media Are Objectively Biased
Much has been written about the political and ideological one-sidedness of TV networks like Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC, but in the larger scheme of […]
To Restore Free Speech, Discipline is Necessary
Some students at Kennesaw State University outside Atlanta have filed a lawsuit against the university, and for a very good reason. They are members of […]
This Sensitivity Ploy Could Blow Up in Librarians’ Faces
A group of librarians at Boston’s Simmons College are attempting to breathe new life into an old librarian stereotype. An “Anti-Oppression Library Guide” takes library […]
Woke Politics Makes for Bitter Brew
Where’s a cop when you need one? That’s a common observation made when one has been victimized. Maybe they’re busy elsewhere. Police can’t be everywhere. […]
No Boys Allowed
Ten years ago while teaching English at Emory University, I noticed a trend. Each year there seemed to be more and more girls on campus. […]
Activists Stand on the Dead to Reach Young Voters
Google “National School Walkout” and peruse the results. You will find a variety of sympathy-inspiring headlines and pictures: students weeping, holding impassioned signs, begging anyone […]
Banned in Britain
This past weekend, the United Kingdom showed every American why we should be proud to have thrown off their rule. First, the British Home Office […]
Welcome to the New Class Warfare
The Democratic Party was once considered the home of working people. That changed as mainstream liberals of the 1960s such as Hubert Humphrey, John and […]
Civility, Not Surrender
Two recent articles, “How Progressives Win the Culture War” by David Brooks and “A Hillary Staffer Goes to CPAC” by Annafi Wahed have generated discussion […]
Motor City Strikes Again: ‘Stop the Killer Cars!’
Leave it to the Regressive Left to put a pothole on the Motor City’s road to renewal. After decades of struggling, including becoming America’s largest […]
The Rapid ‘Progress’ of Progressivism
Not long ago I waited for a flight to board. The plane took off 45 minutes late. There were only two attendants to accommodate 11 […]
The Great Social Media Purge: No One Is Safe
Social media is often abuzz with politics—from immigration and gun control to infrastructure and tariffs. Rarely is the social media itself the topic of discussion. […]
The Great Information War is Here
A few days after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida, many conservative commentators began to notice they were also being targeted. […]
Russian Scapegoats at the Ready for 2018
Fearful that the highly touted “blue wave” of Democratic wins in the fall midterm elections won’t be powerful enough to sink Republican control of Congress, […]
The Woman in the High Castle
In a dystopian fantasy in The New York Times at the end of the year, the columnist Bret Stephens reminded us of the horror that […]
And the Oscar Goes To . . .
The best acceptance speeches are the most gracious ones. I will be grateful if those are the only speeches actors and directors deliver at the […]