The following column appeared in my local newspaper a while back. It is well-written and thought-provoking—two areas that I like to focus on in my blog, so I am sharing it with you today. The author is Joel Kotkin, executive director of the Houston-based Center for Opportunity Urbanism. You can …
The other day a front-page story in the New York Times grabbed my attention like few others. The headline read: “At N.Y.U., Students Were Failing Organic Chemistry. Who Was to Blame?.” The answer, readers learned, was not the students but the award-winning professor who taught the class. To quote the …
On Wednesday, I reprinted a letter from Andrew Gutman, a New York City parent who, in 2021, pulled his daughter out of the exclusive private all-girls Brearley School in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan to protest the school’s woke policies regarding race and gender. In that letter, Gutman …
Today, I am reprinting a letter I received from Andrew Gutman, a New York City parent who, in 2021, pulled his daughter out of the Brearley School, an all-girls private school in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, to protest the school’s woke policies regarding race and gender. Gutman …
(Because this is “Banned Books Week,” I thought I might re-post a commentary I did a while back about how many American schools have decided to ban Harper Lee’s prize-winning book, “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It is not only a wrong-headed policy; it is a dangerous act of censorship that …
Like a lot of people, I wasn’t aware that there is a week devoted to banned books. There is. It’s this week, and it began Sunday and runs to September 24. Below I have compiled a list of the most commonly banned books according to the American Library Association. These …
I recently received this insightful little story via email, and it made so much sense that I decided to share it with my followers and readers. It’s a great example of how big government works—or doesn’t, depending on your perspective. Take a look. You won’t be sorry—or perhaps you will, …
I posted earlier this week about Joe Biden’s hateful and divisive attack on the 75 million Americans who voted for Donald Trump in the 2020 Presidential election. Today I read the commentary below by former Chicago Tribune colleague and columnist John Kass. John left the Tribune in 2021, the victim …
I often repost commentaries from Victor Davis Hanson on my blog. Here is another recent one that examines how easy it is for us to lose our republic and how we are on the road to doing just that. Take a look. How Democracy Dies in Darkness: Five Easy Steps …
In all of my years as an American citizen, I had never witnessed an American president condemn half of the electorate as insurrectionists, fascists, and domestic terrorists. Then came Joe Biden’s political harangue last week. Paint a little black mustache on Biden’s face, employ wild hand gestures, and shout like …