Op-ed: The systemic con behind wokeism
There are lots of reasons why wokeism spread like wildfire once America lost its collective mind during the pandemic, quarantine, self-induced recession and rioting of 2020. Wokeism was never really...
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Column: American universities have lost their prestige
Nothing is stranger than the contemporary American university. Not long ago, Americans used to idolize their universities. Indeed, in science, math, engineering, medicine and business, many of these meritocratic departments...
Column: The world goes on while America sleeps
The Democratically controlled Senate spends thousands of collective hours conducting an impeachment trial against a president who is no longer president. The acquittal is predetermined, as in the first impeachment...
Commentary: Progressives are no longer defenders of free expression
A half-century ago, progressives used to push limitless free expression, blasting conservatives for their allegedly blinkered traditionalism. They boasted of obliterating once-normal boundaries in art, music and literature to allow...
Commentary: Will Donald Trump ride off into the sunset, another tragic hero?
I once wrote that whenever Donald Trump exits office, he will likely leave as a "tragic hero." Over two millenniums ago, the Athenian tragedian Sophocles first described the archetype in...
Commentary: 2020’s upheaval threatens our institutions
The coronavirus, widespread quarantines, an unprecedented self-induced recession, and unchecked rioting, looting and protesting — all in a presidential election year — are radically disrupting American habits and behavior. Rents,...
Column: What is the violence in American cities all about?
It is hard to tell what the current revolutionary violence in our major cities is all about. So far (and as attention now shifts to Kenosha, Wisconsin), hundreds of police...
Commentary: Democrats are waging war against the Constitution
Several of the 2020 Democratic primary candidates favored the abolishment of the Electoral College. Or, as once-confident candidate Elizabeth Warren put it, "I plan to be the last American president...
Commentary: Is America a roaring giant or crying baby?
Marshal Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto commanded the Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II until he was killed in April 1943. Despite the dialogue from the 1970 WWII film "Tora! Tora!...
Commentary: The great coronavirus war is upon us
Try this thought experiment. Envision the coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, as a living, breathing enemy — which, of course, is exactly what it is. But imagine for a moment...