Category: left wing

House Homeland Subcommittee’s Hearing: ‘”Mostly Peaceful”: Countering Left-Wing Organized Violence.’

U.S. Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability holds a hearing—“‘Mostly Peaceful’: Countering Left-Wing Organized Violence”—at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 16. Riley Gaines, spokeswoman of the Independent Women’s Forum; Scott G. Erickson, former Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Amy Spitalnick, incoming CEO for the Jewish Council…


LIVE NOW: House Homeland Subcommittee’s Hearing: ‘”Mostly Peaceful”: Countering Left-Wing Organized Violence.’

U.S. Homeland Security Committee Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Accountability holds a hearing—“‘Mostly Peaceful’: Countering Left-Wing Organized Violence”—at 2:00 p.m. ET on May 16. Riley Gaines, spokeswoman of the Independent Women’s Forum; Scott G. Erickson, former Deputy Chief of Staff at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security; Amy Spitalnick, incoming CEO for the Jewish Council…


‘You’re in the Minority’: Conservative Students Struggle to Find a Voice on University Campus

As Barclay McGain walked into the campus of the University of Queensland (UQ), the lack of diversity in political clubs caught his attention. There’s the Socialist Alternative, three different climate change clubs, the UQ Greens, the Labor left, and the Labor right. Meanwhile, on the right, there’s the UQ Liberal National Society, which McGain argued…


Preston Manning: Beyond Left and Right

Commentary Much of the current commentary on North American politics is still couched—too much so—within the old left-right-centre conceptualization of political ideology and parties. The Biden Democrats in the United States and the Trudeau Liberals in Canada both denounce their principal opponents as “right-wing extremists.” Conservatives in both countries accuse their federal governments of “catering…


Women Are Turning Left

Commentary For the last few weeks in Australia, we’ve been treated to the unabashed celebration from our biased media about the ousting of the Coalition and wild assertions that this was all due to angry women turning on Scott Morrison. No mention, of course, of the fact that conservative parties everywhere are now struggling to…


Remembering Todd Gitlin, 1943-2022

I see that Todd Gitlin—prolific author, former president of Students for a Democratic Society, disgruntled academic radical—has died, age 79. Gitlin was a curious figure. He was indisputably a man of the Left. But he spent much of his career lamenting the many ways in which the Left had disappointed him. Gitlin’s most famous book…


30 Republicans Urge Pentagon Chief to ‘Fight Back’ Against ‘Left-Wing Extremism’ in US Military

Rep. Matt Rosendale (R-Mont.) led a group of 30 House Republicans in urging the Pentagon chief to fight back against “creeping left-wing extremism” in the U.S. military. Rosendale and his GOP colleagues said in their May 25 letter to Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin that they are concerned about “the growing trend of left-wing extremism and…


Australian Spy Agency’s Decision to Drop ‘Left-Right,’ ‘Islamic’ Label, Highlights the Divisive Power of Words

Australia’s domestic spy agency’s decision to drop sensitive labels such as “left-right” and “Islamic extremism” has received a mixed reaction, with one religious expert saying the shift to broader terminology could inadvertently mislead public perception of extremist behaviour. Last week, Mike Burgess, director-general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), delivered the Annual Threat…


Diversity of Thought Is Important in Schools

Commentary If you visit the website of any Canadian teachers’ union, you might think that all teachers reside on the far left of the political spectrum. For example, the British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) is not shy about taking left-leaning stands on controversial political topics. Among other things, the BCTF supports student climate strikes, advocates…


Museums Shouldn’t Be Pushed Around by the Left on Statues: UK Culture Secretary

Museums should not be bullied by left-wing campaign groups into removing statues and rewriting history, British Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden has said. Dowden highlighted the risk of museums being “pushed around by unrepresentative campaign groups, principally from the left.” These left-wing groups “put bullying pressure on institutions to rapidly change their approach, to remove our…