An American inquisition
Almost 500 years after Galileo, quasi-religious frenzies flow freely once again
Gilbert T. Sewall
Tuesday
Monday
The unremarkable Meghan Markle
She is terminal bread and circuses, SoCal lights and vapid glamor
Thursday
Chesa Boudin’s soft-on-crime policies will doom him
Californians may be about to recall a progressive prosecutor
Wednesday
Fleeing dysfunctional America
Blue states cannot stop migrants from escaping their corruption and crime
Thursday
When sex ed is a crime against children
There’s a reason parents are rallying behind Ron DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin
Sunday
When cities accommodate lawlessness
From our UK edition
A shoot-out in downtown Sacramento, California, at two in the morning on Sunday, April 3 left six people dead and injured at least 12. It might or might not have been gang warfare. The facts are still unfolding. One of the suspected shooters, Smiley Martin, 27, was out of jail on early release against the
Wednesday
We are all still prisoners of the Sixties
What was formerly outré or unimaginable remains in vogue. But human instinct will win out
Wednesday
Will the West Coast walk away from wokeness?
As its June primaries heat up, California will once again be a political beacon
Wednesday
Putin understands America’s moral decay
He and Xi Jinping think we’re weak and dissolving from within. Could they be right?
Sunday
The school board recalls that shook San Francisco
From our UK edition
In a widely watched special election this week, angry San Francisco voters recalled three school board members in a landslide. The other four, more recently selected, would have been expelled had the rules permitted it. San Francisco’s municipal government is an embarrassment, and Exhibit A is its antic board of education. Some three quarters of
Tuesday
Biden’s food policies have nothing to do with hunger
In twilight America, the deadly sin of gluttony has vanished
Wednesday
The deep state is no conspiracy theory
Progressive monoculture has enveloped many of our private and public institutions. Aldous Huxley saw it coming
Tuesday
Ms. Work-to-Rule and our fading school standards
Covid conscious, allergic to academic rigor, the head of your local teachers union is in charge now
Tuesday
The unicorns of crime-wave California
As violence surges and police dwindle, the woke take shelter in magical thinking
Tuesday
What Functional America wants
An end to disorder and CRT-loving hustlers who fan the flames of hate
Sunday
John McWhorter versus the progressive elect
A new book says woke religion has ‘betrayed black America’
Sunday
The nationwide school revolt is on
Parents are rising up, determined that their children not be critical race theory guinea pigs
Tuesday
Afrofuturism and the decline of our art museums
A new period room at the Met shows the spirit of the times
Wednesday
Woke California bans boys and girls toy sections
The sinking state tries to erase gender, the human race’s most instinctive feature
Sunday
Gavin Newsom’s California is falling apart
Yet the governor, the essence of white privilege, will likely weather the storm of a recall election
