Not Affirmative Enough
Affirmative action privileges for blacks and (to a lesser extent) Hispanics have been a near-universal feature of college admissions for what is now approaching a half century. What have we learned since the late ...
Affirmative action privileges for blacks and (to a lesser extent) Hispanics have been a near-universal feature of college admissions for what is now approaching a half century. What have we learned since the late ...
I’m not even sure what the “Jewish Question” is, but I’m almost certain that the answer is, “You’re an anti-Semite.” At least that’s the stock retort lobbed like a Molotov ...
In 1972 comedian George Carlin famously delineated the "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television." All seven words dealt with bodily parts or functions at a time when such things were simply not mentioned in ...
Islam isn"t just preying on the weak. They"re preying on the weak-minded. On Monday night, Salman Abedi murdered 29 young Britons and their parents with a nail bomb. As is always the case, the response has been ...
Perhaps to celebrate the Battle of Gettysburg's 150th anniversary, liberal Washington Post columnist Harold Meyerson announced on June 25th that, in effect, it's too bad Pickett's Charge of July 3, 1863 failed. From ...
Jared Diamond, who became a famous public intellectual when his 1997 best-seller Guns, Germs, and Steel was widely proclaimed to have refuted The Bell Curve by arguing that the variation in achievement among races today is ...
Black people don"t drink coffee. There"I"ve said it. I"m generalizing, of course. Yes, I realize you have a black friend who drinks a lot of coffee. You"ve even seen him drink coffee with your own ...
Late one Saturday morning in 1990 under the skeleton-bleaching California sun, I motored through a crumbled, hilly, ashen section of East LA looking to see if any of the Hicks Boys Stoners were around to sell me some weed. ...
When I was a larval nerdling in graduate school, I allowed myself to be seen in public places with a ridiculous pocket computer in a hip holster. It was a tremendously useful device for a physics graduate student. This ...
Why do the human sciences record pervasive behavioral differences among racial groups, such as in violent-crime rates? One explanation is that these disparities originate in complex interactions between nature and ...
As the years roll on through the Obama Era and the evidence accumulates that the failure of blacks to catch up has less and less to do with white racism, the American media has become increasingly obsessed with pounding the ...
One of the most inane verbal constructions in the modern leftist lexicon"right up there with “rape culture,” “white privilege,” and “transphobia”"is the idea that the piteous ...
You remember Caligula. John Hurt played him with creepy malignity in the old BBC production of I, Claudius. Caligula was the third emperor of Rome on a strict count (which doesn’t include Julius Caesar), the fourth of ...
George Zimmerman’s murder trial is a rapidly unspooling farce that could likely result in a massive tragedy. When Trayvon Martin's slaying became an international moral panic last year, the media's blind barking ...
What is thought to be the first public monument to atheism in the United States was unveiled Saturday in the hardscrabble, Bible-believin" town of Starke, FL. A 1,500-pound granite bench etched with pro-atheist and ...
President Barack Obama"who would never lie...at least not intentionally...or at least he wouldn"t admit it...recently spoke at a Massachusetts school where he claimed that “30 to 40 percent” of the ...
It’s time to take the “he” out of heliocentric. Trannies are the center of the universe now, and anyone who refuses to accept the new zheliocentrism can count on swift punishment for their heresy (sorry, ...
I hadn’t read The Smithsonian for years. Back in the 1970s I actually subscribed to it. That was in the days when Stephen Jay Gould contributed columns to the magazine. I liked Gould’s columns. They were witty ...
If this isn"t the most easily offended civilization in world history, I’m glad I missed whichever one was worse. Still, our modern thought police"those prigs and fussbudgets and censors and tattletales and ...
On the recording, surreptitiously made in Los Angeles, the subject can be heard: * giving his friends lewd nicknames * delivering a lengthy monologue larded with bawdy and even blasphemous puns * joking about the ...
Little more than a hundred years ago the modern British welfare state was born in David Lloyd George's 1909 finance bill, the “people's budget.” Hearing of the bill's provisions"old-age pensions! ...
Imagine you’re an elderly white patient in a hospital or nursing home depending on the kindness of others for your very survival. Then imagine that you’re mostly left at the mercy of young black nurses who’ve been ...
The Carolina Panthers’ speedy running back Christian McCaffrey, who is second in the NFL with 105 yards rushing per game, is bidding to become the first white player to lead the NFL in rushing since Jim Taylor of the ...
To be clear: The ideal female mate is young. You"re going to want three kids, and to do that you really need to get going by 25. My wife had our first in her early 30s and at the hospital she was wheeled through a door ...
