San Francisco reparations and the Golden Age of Revision
For just $5 million per person, we can rid ourselves of the iron burden of truth
Peter Wood
Peter Wood is the President of the National Association of Scholars. He is author of 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project and A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now.
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The university fighting back against the diversocrats
A professor was fired after a single student complained. Then came the backlash
Thursday
When the masks come off in blue states
New York City might be trapped in a state of fear but Vermont is doing just fine
Monday
One worldview has taken over the historical profession
From our UK edition
Professor James H. Sweet is a temperate man. He seeks to avoid extremes. But he also seeks to be bold in his temperance. You can do that by emphatically stating an opinion that seems above reproach. But Professor Sweet miscalculated. His emphatic bromide blew up, and he was left offering emphatic apologies. For those who
Monday
The strange effort to ‘decolonize’ global health
Some are unctuously eager to respect non-Western premises about medicine
Sunday
The two Americas: California vs. Florida
From our UK edition
What is America? The answer to that simple question can get you into a lot of trouble. Or it can propel you to the Oval Office. You can try to run away from the question with adverbs. ‘Well, historically, America was the name a European mapmaker slapped on the unexplored continents across the Atlantic.’ Maybe
Friday
The Democrats put on a January 6 pageant
Charlie Chaplin would have been proud
Monday
A flag under foot
This Memorial Day let’s remember what that flag stood for — and what it could stand for again
Sunday
The diversity monster is loose
DEI will only die when we realize no good can come from racial resentment
Monday
Stop reading
Literacy is overrated
Saturday
Finding the religious right in remote Wisconsin
Odd though they can be, such communities are as old as America itself
Monday
How ‘questioning authority’ gave us wokeness
Rebelling against everything has led not to less authority but bad authority — like Dr. Fauci and 1619
Thursday
When Harvard canceled a black professor
It’s what we’ve come to expect from higher education
Saturday
The reporter who covered up the Ukrainian famine
Now is the time to de-Pulitzer Walter Duranty, who ran cover for the Soviets
Tuesday
The strange ideology that could be driving Putin
Eurasianism, as it’s called, sees a common historical destiny for all the non-Russian peoples of Russia
Thursday
Emma Camp almost gets it
The root problem is the ideology on which the censorious campus regime is founded
Sunday
The latest smear campaign against Clarence Thomas
With a major racial preferences case before the Court, the left wants him out
Wednesday
Is Europe a continent? Does it matter?
The ‘continent’ is a lot more than what Nikole Hannah-Jones considers a racist ‘dog whistle’
Saturday
Our present bewilderment
Greta Thunberg-style eco-apocalypse ranting is now common sense on the left
Wednesday
The art of the Covid protest song
They are angry at vaccines mandates, vaccine passports, but mostly at government highhandedness
