The Other McCain

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

Another Public-Relations Debacle for Houston’s ‘Drag Queen Story Time’

William Travis Dees as “Sister Jeff” (lower right). “Drag Queen Story Time” at the Houston Public Library suffered a serious public-relations setback last month after it was revealed that one of the participants, “Tatiana Mala Nina,” who had been reading to children as part of the program, was in fact Albert Alfonso Garza, 32, a […]

Don’t Say Nobody Tried to Warn You

  Gosh, who could have possibly foreseen this? Students at Hofstra University protested a statue of Thomas Jefferson on Friday at the second annual event, titled “Jefferson Has Gotta Go!” The statue has been the center of controversy on the campus and has been defaced with “DECOLONIZE” and “Black Lives Matter” signs and stickers. According […]

A War Against Human Nature

Dana Pico calls attention to a recent exercise in anti-male hatred at a Maryland high school, amplified by the liberal media. Male students at Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School circulated a list rating their female classmates’ attractiveness. Some tattletale turned the boys in. “Dozens of girls decided to speak out, demanding a conversation with their male […]

God and Women’s Soccer at Yale

  Rudy Meredith was the coach of women’s soccer at Yale University for 24 years, winning 224 games and the 2005 Ivy League championship. He resigned in November and has pleaded guilty to federal charges: The biggest school admissions scandal ever prosecuted began with a tip from an executive investigators were targeting in a securities […]

The Ivy League Is Decadent and Depraved: Teaching Hatred at Yale University

  After the 2016 election, Isis Davis-Marks published a column in the Yale Daily News in which she declared: “I cannot even function right now. As a queer, black woman, I feel unsafe in this country.” Despite her fears, Ms. Davis-Marks has somehow managed to survive in New Haven more than two years, so that […]

UCLA and the ‘Diversity’ Cult

Mike LaChance at Legal Insurrection observes: “Diversity is higher education’s unofficial new religion and those who don’t demonstrate enough faith will be punished.” The University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) recently “began requiring all prospective faculty hires to fill out an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statement, which involves applicants mentioning their past, present and future contributions […]

A World Without Norms: The Influence of Judith Butler’s ‘Gender Trouble’

Feminists protest in Los Angeles, January 2017. “When did feminism go completely bonkers?” That question is sometimes raised when I relate the latest outburst of madness from academia (e.g., “How has the form of your child been culturally interpreted?”) or from popular culture (e.g., Gillette’s advertising attack on “toxic masculinity”). Indeed, this spiraling descent into […]

Lesbian Professor: ‘How Has the Form of Your Child Been Culturally Interpreted?’

  Hanna McCann is a lesbian and a feminist (but I repeat myself) who has a Ph.D. and teaches Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne. She is a man-hating anti-heterosexual ideologue, a proponent of queer theory, and the author of Queering Femininity: Sexuality, Feminism, and the Politics of Presentation. No one outside the world […]

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