Commentary Colorado baker Jack Phillips is a perpetual offender. He simply will not do. His offense? Unswervingly honoring his deeply held, and constitutionally protected, religious beliefs. We’ve all heard of Phillips and his travails. Leftist bullies have been tormenting him for years, beginning in 2012, when the Colorado Civil Rights Commission targeted him for refusing…
The ‘Can’t Do’ Narrative Continues
Commentary President Biden has pledged to “help narrow the racial wealth gap and reinvest in communities that have been left behind by failed policies.” He used the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa race massacre in Greenwood, a thriving African American community ravaged by a racist mob in 1921, as the occasion to promise more federal contracts for…
Battling Biden’s Racist Rescue Plan
Commentary The Biden administration is poised to hand out billions of dollars to what it misleadingly labels “socially disadvantaged” farmers, restaurateurs, and other business owners hurt by the pandemic. The money will start flowing to them in early June… provided they don’t have white skin. Whites are out of luck. Biden’s American Rescue Plan defines…
Opinion: Identity Politics Is Destroying the Social Fabric
Commentary Identity politics—the formation of exclusive alliances based on racial, religious, ethnic, or social identity—is manifesting in all cultural corners. It has seeped into school curricula and overtaken traditional Western individualism as the new dominant lens for interpreting one’s place in society. Entire university departments have been rededicated to examining so-called intersectionality, defined as the complex way…
Defending the Constitution: The ‘Three-Fifths Compromise’ Was Not Based on Racism
Commentary This is the second in a series of essays answering defamatory charges leveled against the U.S. Constitution. The first in the series addressed the allegation that the Constitution discriminated against women. In fact, as that essay showed, the framers took pains to ensure the document was gender-neutral. Another false charge is that the Constitution…
Political Discrimination Threatening Academic Freedom in US, UK, and Canada: Report
A first-of-its-kind study has revealed that academia in Canada, the United States, and the UK are suppressing and punishing conservative scholars and students for their ideas and speech, which is increasingly encroaching on their academic freedom. The report (pdf) was conducted by the Center for the Study of Partisanship and Ideology (CSPI), which said its…
Biden DOE No Longer Finds Racially Segregated Groups in Schools Discriminatory
The U.S. Department of Education has reversed a Trump-era decision that declared race-based “affinity groups” at public schools to be discriminatory, according to the New York Post. After a whistleblower teacher’s complaint from the Evanston-Skokie School District in Illinois, the Trump Administration’s Education Department in 2019 launched an investigation into the district’s practice of dividing…
On the Peculiar Character of American ‘Racism’
Commentary That America is a racist country is the great self-evident truth of the Left and of the ruling class whose moral opinions are shaped by it. This truth is self-evident in the sense of being readily apparent to them, as evidenced by the countless disparities in life outcomes between blacks and whites. No explanation for these…
Keeping Partisan Ideology Out of Our Armed Forces
Commentary Last week, I wrote a column about a ridiculous pledge that was published in a recent U.S. Navy report on investigating and stopping discrimination within the ranks. I incorrectly asserted—based on reporting I had seen—that the pledge was being proposed for adoption by the entire U.S. Navy. It turns out the oath only applied…
It’s a Racist Plan, Not a Rescue Plan
Commentary Polls show most Americans support the COVID-19 relief bill. But this bill comes with a slap in the face for people who believe in racial equality and want everyone to benefit. Section 1005 of the bill offers women and minority farm owners a total debt forgiveness of up to hundreds of thousands of dollars…
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