Stanford University was widely mocked, criticized, and ridiculed after a harmful language guide was leaked to the media. The “Elimination of Harmful Language Initiative” was circulated among the Information Technology staff this pasty May, but it suggested not using words like “American” to not offend others. Instead, the guide suggested using “U.S. citizen” in place […]
Read the articleUnder the Biden administration, there has been a re-emergence of labor strikes and settlement of labor disputes in favor of labor unions. The most recent example is an announcement by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) that it will pursue charges of unfair labor practices against the NCAA, PAC-12, and University of Southern California (USC). […]
Read the articleThe D.C. Public Schools (DCPS) system in Washington, D.C. is a giant mess, similar to the political situation in the nation’s capital. Americans for Fair Treatment reported that a recent survey of DCPS teachers found that four out of five teachers are unhappy with their jobs and blamed factors such as high teacher turnover and […]
Read the articleAmerica’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice of calm assurance and reason, is noted conservative scholar Victor Davis Hanson in his latest book, “The Dying Citizen: How […]
Read the articlePolitical correctness and “woke” culture are making everyone skittish, including the directors of a popular role-playing game called Reacting to the Past at around 500 colleges and universities. The Wall Street Journal reported that the role-playing game was afraid of offending students. Reacting to the Past has 30 debates, including one particular game that debated […]
Read the articleIn yet another revealing example of its hypocrisy and obtuseness when assessing the consequences of its own behavior, the University of Chicago’s chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) was again whining about being victimized by ideological opponents. What was SJP’s complaint this time? In a letter to the editor in the university’s newspaper, […]
Read the articleJews have been accused of harming and murdering non-Jews since the twelfth century in England, when Jewish convert to Catholicism, Theobald of Cambridge, mendaciously announced that European Jews ritually slaughtered Christian children each year and drank their blood during Passover season. That medieval blood libel, largely abandoned in the contemporary West, does, however, still appear […]
Read the articleOn April 29th, in a breathtaking display of tendentiousness and a misreading of history and fact, you published an editorial in the Harvard Crimson entitled, “In Support of Boycott, Divest, Sanction and a Free Palestine,” an outrageous column replete with slanders against the Jewish state that called for the Harvard community to commit itself to […]
Read the articleThe numbers are in and the U.S. education landscape looks bleak, according to a report published by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The report acknowledged that virtual or remote learning did not provide more or equal access for students, despite school districts’ efforts. The GAO report said that an estimated 1.1 million teachers across the […]
Read the articleAs yet more evidence that a core group of activist McGill students is in the thrall of radical anti-Israelism, Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) voted to adopt a “Palestine Solidarity Policy” proposed by the student club Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights (SPHR). The mendacious, one-sided policy statement asserted that “McGill University invests in, or […]
Read the articleWho would have thought that a former comedian would be a stronger leader than a sitting U.S. president? But that is the situation that the world is finding itself in as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has stood firm amid a devastating war waged by Russia against his homeland. Meanwhile, U.S. President Joe Biden has not […]
Read the article“War is hell,” an American general once said. General William Tecumseh Sherman’s words from the U.S. Civil War resonate today more than ever as Russia’s invasion of Ukraine plays out on social media and television for the world to see. Video footage of bombed-out apartment buildings, burned out cars, dead civilians from all walks of […]
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