Category: Race

At Tulsa, Biden Ramps Up Racial Animosity

Commentary In Tulsa on June 1, President Joe Biden said this: “According to the intelligence community, terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today. Not ISIS, not al-Qaeda: white supremacists. That’s not me. That’s the intelligence community under both Trump and under my administration.” If I were the media, I…


Why A Nation Should Guard Its Founding Stories—Interview With Dustin Bass

President Joe Biden recently laid out his plans for education in the United States to include trainings and classes on Critical Race Theory. Part of this is based in a criticism of America’s founding stories. But is this criticism valid? We speak to Dustin Bass, founder of The Sons of History, to learn more about…


Race Is a Choice

Commentary Kamala Harris had a choice, being the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants. On the campaign trail in the 2020 election cycle, she often presented herself as black—emphasizing her studies at the historically black Howard University and saying to Joe Biden in the Democratic Primary debates: “My neighbor, her parents told her she couldn’t…


Kentucky Derby Winner Medina Spirit Treated With Ointment That Had Betamethasone: Bob Baffert

The winner of the Kentucky Derby, Medina Spirit, was treated with an ointment that included betamethasone, said its trainer, Bob Baffert. Medina Spirit, a thoroughbred race horse, failed a post-derby drug test for the anti-inflammatory steroid betamethasone, putting the horse’s race into question. Baffert, in a statement released by his lawyer, said the horse was…


Critical Race Theory Is About to Face Its Day(s) in Court

As recently as last summer, few people outside academia had heard of critical race theory, whose central claim is that racism, not liberty, is the founding value and guiding vision of American society. Then, President Trump issued an executive order last September banning the teaching of this “malign ideology” to federal employees and federal contractors….


‘Tell Tchaikovsky the News’—the Absurdity of Cultural Appropriation

Commentary On March 8, 2021, the National Post reported that pop star Bruno Mars was being attacked for “cultural appropriation” of black culture and music because he’s neither African, nor African American by descent. This is just one more example of a growing chorus of cultural outrage from the left and from the fellow travelers…


The Left’s Systemic Exploitation of Race

Commentary When I occasionally complain about the Left politicizing race, fellow conservatives often say to me, “Don’t worry about this. They’ve lost all credibility on the issue, trivializing it by overuse. They’re getting no traction with it.” Oh? You’d have to be blind and deaf to deny that this tactic is working for the Left…


How ‘Inclusion’ in Canadian Universities Becomes Exclusion

Commentary The foremost advocates of racism and sexism in Canada are our universities. No longer are individuals treated as individuals according to their achievements, potential, and merits. Rather, under the label “diversity, inclusion, and equity,” students, professors, staff, and administrators are treated in admissions, funding, hiring, and benefits not according to their ability to do…


Opinion: Weaponizing Race and Gender

Commentary Perhaps the most frightening thing happening in America is the weaponizing of race and gender. We need to be wary, because this is a war for power. This is a war to deny American citizens our Constitutional rights and to create a totalitarian society controlled by the woke left. We must not allow this…


Vernon Jordan, Activist, Former Clinton Adviser, Dead at 85

ATLANTA—Vernon Jordan, who rose from humble beginnings in the segregated South to become a champion of civil rights before reinventing himself as a Washington insider and corporate influencer, has died, according to a statement from his daughter. He was 85. “My father passed away last night around 10 p.m. surrounded by loved ones his wife…