American author and historian
Editors at the Washington Free Beacon ponder a major bookseller’s latest controversy. Imagine a world in which the late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday had released a widely hyped book…
Chuck Ross writes for the Washington Free Beacon about questionable priorities for a New York City government agency. The New York City Parks Department, facing a $33 million budget cut…
Jeffrey Blehar writes for National Review Online about the not-so-surprising end of an unusually successful scam: the “antiracism” of Ibram X. Kendi. [N]obody impressed me more than the Cut Creator,…
John Stossel devotes a Townhall.com column to battling a common myth about capitalism. Capitalism and racism go together? I hear it all the time. “Racism is intricately linked to capitalism,”…
Jack Cashill writes for the American Thinker about a key player in the “anti-racist” crowd. As blue-collar philosopher Eric Hoffer reportedly observed some years back, “Every great cause begins as…
Wilfred Reilly writes at National Review Online about disputes involving the proper definition of the word “woke.” Many political terms (“fascism”) are as slippery as greased lobbyists, and this one…
Elle Reynolds of the Federalist places the Biden administration’s possible revision of the word “recession” in context. In preparation for the close of the year’s second economic quarter, the White…
John Sexton writes at HotAir.com about interesting recent developments in the political culture. He starts by citing the work of Andrew Sullivan. Sullivan’s latest piece on Substack is titled “The…
Stanley Kurtz explains at National Review Online why critics of “woke” books in school libraries should avoid trying to ban them. I can’t think of a more encouraging development than…
Critical race theorists argue that white supremacy is an underlying structure at the heart of American institutions, social structures, and professed ideals. Marxism offered a starting point for the development…
Last week, Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson released the first report from the F.A.C.T.S. Task Force, which highlighted various parental concerns about classroom instruction. At the same time, lawmakers have proposed…
Editors at National Review Online take aim at a powerful national group representing lawyers. The Standards Committee of the American Bar Association has recommended, as a condition of accreditation for…