social justice warriors
Now's our chance to finally rein in America's race-gender hysteria
America today is the closest it’s been in a decade to recovering from its collective bout of racial and sexual hysteria.
SUNY & CUNY profs and students need a course on free speech
College students, faculty and administrators clearly need urgent remedial instruction in freedom of speech and First Amendment values.
Don't let Biden & Co. force YOUR nest egg to be invested in woke-only companies
President Joe Biden is coming for your nest egg. For real: A new Biden Labor Department rule aims to steer the retirement funds of 152 million Americans toward companies with...
We shouldn’t expect World Cup players — or any athletes — to be activists
There is nothing wrong with an athlete opining on politics. The expectation, however, that players will protest — and protest only in a way that is deemed acceptable — has become...
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is paying the price for going ‘woke’
Here are two things that don’t go together very well: 1.) Selling caffeinated adult milkshakes for six bucks a cup and 2.) hepatitis.
Ritchie Torres' excellent words of Latinx wisdom for the woke
As we’ve noted before, Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-Bx) is a progressive with a difference: namely, a joyful willingness to defy the party line.
Disney should take a cue from Netflix on how to handle woke activists
Netflix’s refusal to make any policy concessions should be a model to every company getting bombarded with demands from people who came of age on woke college campuses where it’s...
The language police are doing major harm to their own goal of social justice
Trying to “know my audience” is becoming increasingly difficult because I’m not convinced the loudest voices in the audiences know best how to achieve their/our objective: a more just society,...
Columbus Day ban proves NYC bureaucrats hate the nation we love
The attack on Columbus Day by New York City's schools is an attack on America and it's foundation.
Cancel culture is out of control — and Gen X is our only hope
First it was Huck Finn. Then it was JK Rowling. Last week it was “The Muppet Show.” This week it’s Dumbo. It’s only a matter of time before “Star Wars”...
Politicized, woke and afraid: Gen Z needs to start thinking critically
In our increasingly digitized, secular, and ideologically polarized era, my generation — Gen Z — has overwhelmingly turned to political activism in their search for meaning. The rise of BLM...
The moronic social-justice war on classics threatens our civilization
It was only a matter of time before Cicero got canceled. The New York Times the other day profiled Princeton classicist Dan-el Padilla Peralta, who wants to destroy the study of classics...
New York Times ties itself in woke knots: Goodwin
Thunk, thunk. The career guillotine at The New York Times was busy Friday, dispatching two men found wanting by the Purity Police. When the shock wears off, the former employees...
A cop debunks four core myths of the #DefundPolice movement
As a progressive who wants to decriminalize drugs and advance the welfare state, I fit in well in my Pacific Northwest community. Except, that is, for my job: I’ve been...
'Stolen native land acknowledgment' statements are ultimately meaningless
The 2020 edition of liberalism is fueled by the kind of strange, self-torturing religious fervor that’s so medieval it’s straight out of “Monty Python and the Holy Grail,” in which...
For left-wing purists, moderates — not conservatives — are the true enemy
Opinion writer Bari Weiss got chased out of The New York Times for her political views — not because she’s an uncompromising conservative, but because she is a moderate. In...
Drew Brees isn't a 'punk' — he's a patriot
NFL star Drew Brees stepped into a social-media conflagration Wednesday when he responded to a question from Yahoo Finance about possible protests in the upcoming football season. In an interview...
Stephen King ignites online fury over controversial Oscars tweets
Stephen King is under fire on Twitter after downplaying the role of diversity in selecting this year's Academy Award nominees. "I would never consider diversity in matters of art. Only...
Today's Yale grads aren't qualified to lead in the 21st Century
At Yale, there is seemingly a new protest every week. Each protest carries the same juvenile self-righteousness, enabled by a university administration that never dares to challenge its student body.
How left-wing politics transformed colleges into battlegrounds
A mob loops a noose around a century-old statue, drags it down with triumphant whoops, then stomps and spits on the twisted metal. A screaming crowd surrounds a lone man...