The announcement of the resignation of Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in June following a podcast and tweet that was deemed racist, provoked angry reactions from medical professionals. Dr. Bauchner was put on administrative leave following a February JAMA podcast titled “Structural Racism for Doctors: What Is…
Exclusive: Victor Davis Hanson on the Assault on Meritocracy, Politicization of the Virus, and the ‘Platonic Noble Lie’
June 26, 2021
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There will be “no safe space, no sanctuary from wokeism until the system starts to erode the safety and the security of the elite that created it,” says classicist and historian Victor Davis Hanson. In this episode, Hanson breaks down the problems he sees plaguing American society today, from the assault on meritocracy to the…
What the ‘Queen of Twitter’ Shows Us About Cancel Culture
Commentary Model, television host, and best-selling cookbook author Chrissy Teigen is the newest epicenter of the red-hot controversy over cyberbullying and “cancel culture”—those relentless attacks on social media that can result in someone’s losing a media platform, business, or career because of something said or done that offends the swarms of attackers For a decade,…
Leading Cancel Culture Researcher Describes Campaign to Cancel Him
When the online cancel mob came for him, Professor Eric Kaufmann felt little sense of surprise—only irony. As a leading researcher into cancel culture in the world of academia, he knows all too well that these days simply championing free speech can be seen as an act of fascism by some radical students and academics….
Boycotting Companies That Engage in Marxism Is a Moral Necessity—Interview With Eric Metaxas
Cancel culture is running amok, and one of the phenomena now emerging is big government working through Big Tech to carry out censorship. Among the voices recently canceled by YouTube is Eric Metaxas, host of The Eric Metaxas Show. To learn more about this, and about how to face the new waves of cancel culture,…
New Jersey School Board Backtracks on Decision to Remove Holiday Names From Calendar
June 22, 2021
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The school board in Randolph Township in Morris County, New Jersey, has reversed a decision to erase all holiday names from the school calendar following backlash from parents. Randolph’s Board of Education on Monday night voted to restore the names of holidays, admitting in a statement that the decision was made “without proper consideration.” “The…
Colorado Town Mayor Cancels Pledge of Allegiance at Town Hall, Attendees Recite Anyway
The mayor of Silverton, Colorado, issued a statement during a trustee meeting saying that he will discontinue recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the meetings. His idea was met with resistance and some of the attendees stood up and recited it loudly during the comment section of the meeting. Even though…
Mens-Only Clubs and the Freedom of Association
June 19, 2021
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Commentary On June 15 around 700 members of Sydney’s exclusive Australian Club voted on a motion to determine whether women were allowed to be full members. Currently, women are only welcomed as guests of existing members but are not eligible to become full members. The Cub, founded in 1838, is described on its website as…
Welcome to Wokespeak: Its Logic-Defying Rhetoric Is Making Heads Spin
In the midst of the nation’s racial upheaval last year, media outlets including the Associated Press, the New York Times and the Washington Post rushed to start capitalizing the word “Black” in reference to African Americans, some announcing the move as a long-overdue gesture of respect. While RealClear has not changed its style, the change…
Southern Slaveholders: The Inventors of ‘Cancel Culture’
Commentary There’s a prevailing orthodoxy and its opponents are branded “insurrectionists.” Nonconformists are banned from social media outlets. They’re threatened and they lose their livelihoods. Street mobs attack them and destroy their property. Government officials not only refuse to protect their rights, but also sometimes even conspire with the oppressors. The foregoing paragraph could describe…
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