Category: left

The War Against Merit

In this episode of Counterculture, Danielle zooms in on affirmative action at college campuses and how there is active discrimination against Asian Americans, as well as whites, in the admissions process. She interviews journalist Kenny Xu, author of “An Inconvenient Minority,” about the recent rise in Asian hate crimes and why the Left is willing…


Cuba Libre! and the Left

Commentary People on the far left have become so predictable that their statements are no longer “breaking news.” They would be hilarious if they weren’t outrageous or if they didn’t contribute to the undermining of human rights and freedom in other countries. Some on the left speak favorably about the evil twins of communism and…


You Have a Right to Be Transgender. You Don’t Have a Right to Expose Yourself to Women.

Commentary How many examples could one give to show what a sick world left-wing activists, the media, and the Democrats—the left’s political party—have wrought? The number is equal to the number of policies they advocate. There is no more obvious example than their position on the display of a penis in front of girls and…


The Left’s Disgraceful Failure to Condemn Cuba’s Communist Dictatorship

Commentary The Castro (and now post-Castro) regime in Cuba is a deeply repressive communist dictatorship whose ultimate place in the proverbial ash heap of history cannot arrive soon enough. A retrograde relic of the Cold War era—when it served as a strategically positioned Soviet satrapy—the impoverished island nation has barely changed an iota since the…


Why Does the Left Seemingly Hate Israel?

Commentary With more than 3,000 rockets having been fired into Israel by Hamas recently, the Democratic Party seems paralyzed over how to respond to the latest Middle East war. It is not just that they fear that “The Squad,” Black Lives Matter, the shock troops of Antifa, and woke institutions such as academia and the…


Men Give Birth. America Was Founded in 1619. And Israel Is the Aggressor.

Commentary When you meditate for a moment on what the Left expects honest and decent people to believe, you confront the world of absurdities and lies in which we live. The Left demands we believe and announce that men menstruate and give birth, and that it is in no way unfair to girls and women…


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…


A Near Call: Whether the Left Will Implode or Triumph

Commentary Here’s a question that I do not know the answer to: “Is the Left on the Cusp of Permanent Triumph, Or Is It Committing Suicide?” That’s the title of an essay by Francis Menton at his blog Manhattan Contrarian. Menton points out that the sudden acceleration of “cancel culture” and social media “de-platforming” are only two…


The Left’s Legal Top Gun Marc Elias Isn’t Finished With Democracy Yet

This week the House Committee on Administration is taking up the challenge by Rita Hart to have Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks kicked out of Congress. The Democratic candidate for a vacant seat in Iowa’s 2nd Congressional District, Hart lost by six votes in November to Miller-Meeks, a Republican. The election was properly certified in Iowa, but…


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…