Chicago told its 2016 intake of students point-blank not to expect any trigger warnings or safe spaces at their educational establishment. Fostering a free exchange of ideas reinforces a related Unive...
The Wall Street Journal brilliantly quoted President Eisenhower: Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing the fact that they ever existed. Even if they...
We should give thanks to NPR, CNN and the Southern Poverty Law Center for identifying the real causes of racial tension in America. It isn’t terrible schools, or black fatherlessness, or constant race...
Puritanism, wrote H.L. Mencken, whose lifetime spanned the first progressive era, is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, might be happy. Who
King claims to be half-black, born to a black father and white mother. However, a closer examination of King’s family tree by blogger Vicki Pate revealed a shocking truth in King’s birth certificate:...
Identity politics is universally attractive because it enables failures and weaknesses to be spun as the products of oppression and historical injustice. Personal responsibility is removed from the eq...
You now know, for instance, that black gang violence eclipses police violence as a threat to black lives. You will now know that the fabled rape culture on college campuses doesn’t exist, and the gend...
The new brand of political correctness, popular on college campuses and social media, is the idea that no speech should exist that directly challenges politically correct ideas.
If I were to put the current state of the science fiction genre into SF terms, it would be a space ship under attack. I won’t say which ship I’m thinking of, because this introduction would quickly di...
A Gallup poll of Muslims in the UK found that not a single Muslim in the 1,001 people polled thought that homosexuality was morally acceptable. The same poll found that 35% of French Muslims and 19% o...
We’re supposed to pretend it’s totally believable that Rey could pilot the Millenium Falcon with greater skill than Han Solo. Never mind the fact that she learns the Force in like, half a day.
Unwilling to be as blatant in their pro-Clinton bias as Huffington Post, VICE instead opted to fire Tracey after he pointed out that Lena Dunham could not have participated in the close Democratic pri...
To the victims of homophobia, patriarchy, street harassment and intolerance: don’t worry, we’ll put a lid on Muslim immigration. There
Progressive identity politics ignores basic human realities. If you live authentically as yourself there will be repercussions. Not everyone will like you. Some people may even want you dead. As Fried...
People love getting into spats on the internet. Some people spend their whole lives doing it. The only people who object to ridicule and criticism are touchy, fragile celebrities and journalists with...
Islam is not like other religions. It’s more inherently prescriptive and it’s much more political. That’s why I, a free speech fundamentalist, still support banning the burka and restricting Islamic i...
Between 1980 and 2008, blacks made up 52.5% of homicide offenders, despite making up just 12.2% of the population. In the same survey, it was found that 93% of black homicide victims were killed by ot...
Welcome to the era of Minority Wars. If you’re gay, they’ll ask what your skin color is. If you’re black, they’ll ask if you’re a woman. If you’re a woman, they’ll ask you to stop worrying about Musli...
This is the subject of books like Therapy Culture by Frank Furedi and One Nation Under Therapy by Christina Hoff Sommers, which charts the rising trend to treat feelings and emotions as things to be p...