The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Des Moines School Superintendent Was Illegal Immigrant From Guyana

People in Iowa and around the country are mystified by this situation. How did this guy get hired? And how much of his biographical information is actually true? The story from the Des Moines Register: Des Moines Public Schools Superintendent Ian Roberts was arrested by U.S. Immigration Customs Enforcement for allegedly being in the United […]

What Causes Racism?

The answer in two words: Cornell University. Cornell University causes racism: I applied to countless tenure-track positions across the country in 2019 and 2020. One of those applications went to Cornell, for a position in their Neurobiology and Behavior department. Unknown to me, a few months later Cornell initiated a separate search for a faculty […]

The Greatest Legal Mind of Our Era

MADISON, Wisconsin As mentioned previously (“God and Man at UW-Madison”), a distinct #resistance attitude prevails among faculty here, and yesterday’s law school commencement ceremony included several expressions of unmistakably progressive sentiments, uttered with an apparent certainty that everyone in attendance shared these feelings. Amid such provocations, I maintained my composure, and probably no one noticed […]

God and Man at UW-Madison

MADISON, Wisconsin Today is the big day for son Jefferson and, because of what’s called “diploma privilege,” his graduation from the University of Wisconsin Law School means he automatically qualifies for the state bar, without having to pass a bar exam. However, he plans to practice in another state, so he’ll still be going through […]

The Dumbest Take on the 2024 Election

A few weeks ago, I bought a copy of Thomas Sowell’s 1987 book A Conflict of Visions as a gift for a young man who was struggling with his political views. My intention is, once he’s finished reading that, to give him the second book of that Sowell trilogy, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation […]

Do Taxpayers in Madison, Wisconsin, Want Schools to Celebrate a Killer?

Sumter County is in south Georgia, north of Albany and west of Cordele. The county seat is Americus, but arguably the most famous town in Sumter County is Plains, from which hometown a certain peanut farmer grew up to be President of the United States. The county is largely rural, with a population of less […]

‘Selma Envy’ and the Left’s Increasing Embrace of ‘Eliminationist Rhetoric’

For at least 30 years, going back to when I was covering local schools for the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune, I’ve been worried about how history is taught in America’s education system. This problem was apparent to me by the time our oldest child was in kindergarten, and I didn’t at first fully understand until, working […]

Academia’s DEI ‘Oppression’ Racket and the Demonization of Jews on Campus

Harvard University alumna Dara Horn published a very interesting article in The Atlantic last month talking about the climate on elite campuses, the subject of congressional hearings: The problem was not that Jewish students on American university campuses didn’t want free speech, or that they didn’t want to hear criticism of Israel. Instead, they didn’t […]

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