Tag: cancel culture

FTC Is Latest Federal Agency to Pursue Race-Based Agenda

The Biden administration, as it has done with other federal agencies, has redirected the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) from its core mission of “protecting consumers and promoting competition” to fighting racial inequity and climate change. Created to be an enforcement arm of U.S. anti-trust laws, the FTC has written a new mandate for itself to…


Vegan ESG Investors Want Plant-Based Food Options in America’s Hospitals

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing continues to reshape America’s private sector. It may soon help dictate the food served at a hospital near you. The boards of directors for several major American healthcare companies have been sent shareholder proposals from proxy-holders of U.S. Climate Vegan ETF, an exchange-traded fund from the vegan investment firm…


Girl Guides Announce Name Change for ‘Brownies’ Because It ‘Causes Harm’

The Brownies will change its name after its parent organization, the Girl Guides of Canada (GGC), decided the name is not “inclusive” and “causes harm.” The organization will be renamed by September 2023. “Brownies” were helpful, magical, elf-like figures from English and Scottish folklore, but an email sent to volunteers Nov. 15 said the organization has…


Famous Scholars Call for End to Academic Censorship

Palo Alto, California, known as the “birthplace of Silicon Valley,” hosted on Nov. 4 to 5 a conference in favor of free speech. This comes in response to what some prominent professors are calling a “loss of academic freedom” that is underway at many Western universities. A Canadian professor, Patrick Provost, was suspended in June for…


‘You’re Targeting Us’: Connecticut College Removes US Flag Variations, Leaves Pride Flag at Dorms

Two college students in Connecticut who hung variations of the American flag on their dorm window have said their flags were targeted by the administration after an official pulled their flags down but left LGBT flags up for days after the incident. Trinity College roommates Finn McCole and Lucas Turco said the college officials removed…


Changing of the Guard: Can Musk Deliver on His Promises for Free Speech and Information?

Commentary Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter and his immediate firing of top brass represents a potential weakening of the Big Digital woke cartel that controls information, censers content, censures and bans users, and serves as a propaganda arm of leftist totalitarian statists. Given their cooperation with and promotion of leftist statism, it is more than evident that…


The Genius of Cate Blanchett in ‘Tár’

Commentary Getting right to the point, the masterful film “Tár” includes one of the best takedowns of identity politics I’ve ever heard. The conductor is invited to teach a master class in music at the Juilliard Conservatory. It’s pretty obvious from the way the students are scattered out throughout the room that they are not…


Remember Those Who Cannot Speak

Commentary Being on the administrative/editorial side of Brownstone has been a serious education in information systems. I don’t mean on a technical level. I mean on a social level. I had no idea just how many people there are who simply are not in a position to speak their minds. It’s strange because the whole…


Project Veritas Is Under (Constant) Attack

Commentary The more successful Project Veritas becomes, the harder the American establishment fights to shut it down. Its most recently successful sting operation resulted in a New York City Hall staffer being fired for discussing the utter ineptitude of the Eric Adams mayoral administration. The influx of illegal immigrants being transported to the city from…


Kanye West Says He’s Lost $2 Billion Getting Canceled Over Controversial Remarks

Musician Kanye West is back on Instagram after a lockout and said in a post Thursday that he had lost $2 billion in a single day after Adidas cut ties with him and Forbes said he had dropped off its billionaire list. “I lost 2 billion dollars in one day,” West wrote. “And I’m still…