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Chuck Devore writes for the Federalist about the latest bad idea from California’s governor. Oh, the irony! California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the gel-haired darling of the left, has decided to…
John Daniel Davidson of the Federalist explores a major media outlet’s renewed focus on race. It’s impossible to understand The New York Times’ 1619 Project as anything but sweeping historical…
Philip Wegmann of the Washington Examiner offers a history lesson for those who decry today’s political incivility. Obama and Clinton certainly weren’t sinless when they squared off during the 2008…
The title comes from a memoir by Frederick Douglass, a self-taught escaped slave who was born two hundred years ago this month. During his life, Douglass was celebrated as one of…
Those who filed North Carolina’s House Bill 147 might find interest in the latest cover story of The American Scholar, the quarterly Phi Beta Kappa publication. Washington College history professor…
Ben Shapiro explains at National Review Online why it’s unwise to try to rewrite or oversimplify history. Over the weekend, Yale University announced that a residential college would no longer…
North Carolina’s election laws haven’t fared very well lately in the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. On July 1st the Court struck down changes to Wake County’s…
Blake Neff of the Daily Caller documents a disturbing incident at one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious universities. A Yale University employee is out of a job, and…
Columbia English professor John McWhorter reviews for Barron’s a book that focuses on “the black-and-white politics of race on America’s campuses.” In his latest polemic, journalist, novelist, and college lecturer…
Victor Davis Hanson‘s latest column for National Review Online offers a provocative comparison between today’s sanctuary cities and the 19th-century Confederate states. There are now 340 sanctuary cities in the…
Charles Kesler explores for the Claremont Review of Books the links between the Tea Party movement and American constitutional history. Both the old and the new Tea Party stand for…
George Will takes on one of his favorite whipping boys, Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisc) here. Feingold, along with his partner in crime, Sen. John McCain, is not satisfied with eviscerating…