Culture
Nobody should ever accuse progressives of spending too much time on self reflection. Consider the following, from an article for Catholic News Agency by Joe Bukuras about pro-abortion protesters’ blocking a Catholic pro-life procession: “Violence can look like a man throwing punches,” a copy of a [New York City for Abortion Rights (NYCFAR)] flyer says.…
John DePetro reports that one of the families involved in the Sayles Street neighbor dispute a few weeks ago is nearing the $15,000 goal of its GoFundMe campaign. Give some thought to the process by which they’re monetizing debate. Without assigning blame for who started it, we can state as fact that this family was…
Speaking about a murder on Public Street in Providence, Democrat Mayor Jorge Elorza insists, “There’s just too many firearms out there, and not just too many firearms, but too many automatic firearms.” In other words, he blames the guns. Last month, Providence Journal writer Amy Russo began an article on guns by asserting: “Violence tends to…
To our detriment, we took Italy’s experience of COVID-19 to gauge our reaction, but when it comes to that country’s deteriorating family life, we’re not paying enough attention. From Hannah Brockhaus for the Catholic News Agency: Leaders in Italy’s public and private sectors will meet Friday to discuss the country’s dismal birth rate in a…
The University of Rhode Island has reconsidered its plan to destroy an iconic mural in its student union. Christian Schneider reports for The College Fix: The murals, painted by URI graduate Arthur Sherman in the 1950s, came under criticism last summer because their depiction of what life at the school was like in the post-war era…
Have you ever noticed that the talking points for progressive causes coalesce and spread amazingly quickly? One moment, the general public is trying to figure out what this critical race theory (CRT) thing is and why districts are pushing it on children, and the next minute activists, public figures, and journalists appear to be all…
The tweet by Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams appearing as the featured image for this post is deliberately provocative in the real meaning of that word, as in “intended to provoke”: Popular opinions on Twitter: It is unfair for trans athletes to compete on women’s teams because of the strength difference. It is fair for LeBron…
It’s been out there for a few weeks, but a letter that Professor John McWhorter promoted from a male high school student deserves a read. What the boy writes is far too much in keeping with other evidence, from male student achievement to suicide rates, to be dismissed as the whining of an elite private…
Campus Reform has the story, reported by Ben Zeisloft, of a student protest at Ohio State University, wherein students expressed outrage that the university had labeled an assault on White students as a “hate crime.” Ponder the significance of this statement from Student Solidarity at OSU: OSU sent out an email on Friday confirming that…
The market effects of political movements is an angle that doesn’t get much public consideration when the movements are on the political left. Many a movie, book, and show relies on a plot wherein a greedy right-wing mogul seeks to despoil the planet for personal profit, but what about moguls whose profits derive from a…