Of all the contentious issues on the cultural and political scene today, the "draw Muhammad" controversy seems to bring out the most unsavory types, on all sides. It's like sitting through a sporting event in which your two least favorite teams are playing, with vendors hawking your least ...
We see it every day. Pick a news story, any news story, and it's guaranteed that some journalist will spin it to scream "racism." Look at the past few weeks. David Letterman's farewell? "Unbearably white." The National Spelling Bee? White racism has "cast a pall" over the ...
The NAACP's sole weapon is fear. The organization gets its way because many businesses and public figures live in fear of being slapped with the label "racist." But what, if anything, frightens the NAACP? No, it's not your conservative blog or podcast, so don"t flatter yourself. The ...
One of the saddest parts of growing old is the realization that some of the best and most incisive books you read in your youth have had damn near zero impact on the world. 1988's "That Noble Dream: The ‘Objectivity Question’ and the American Historical Profession" by Peter ...
It took me a while to understand why some of today's leading generals in the war to enforce politically correct speech and behavior codes are Latinas. Jewish organizations were the foundation-builders of PC nonsense, and white feminists and black activists have in many cases one-upped the founders ...
"Moving the goalposts" is a logical fallacy favored by those on the left who are constantly hectoring the rest of us about how we"re not making sufficient progress toward a particular "social justice," "economic justice," or environmental goal. Since the left must be in ...
The 2016 presidential primary season has kicked off with a veritable Rainbow Coalition of prospective candidates. Rubio and Cruz are all-in for the GOP, with Fiorina and Carson likely additions to the field. Add Hillary Clinton to the mix as the Democrat to beat, and perceptive observers can ...
By the time you read this, the Memories Pizza "gay wedding" story will have gone the way of every overhyped, outrage-inducing Internet meme, relegated to the "you"re still talking about this after two weeks?" graveyard of planned obsolescence. The story has completed its arc: ...
I could"ve written this column a week ago, before the National Geographic Channel's "Killing Jesus" had even aired, and still used the same opening sentence: "Killing Jesus killed in the ratings, scoring record numbers for the network, and delivering more viewers than any program in ...
A good historian should be an annoyance. Most people want simple, pat answers to complex historical questions. Lousy historians give the people what they want. A genuinely competent historian can"t do that, even if it means raining on a merry parade or subverting someone else's ...
