People messing up the twelve days of Christmas has always annoyed me, even before I converted to Catholicism.
Christmas is not a day. It is a season that lasts twelve days. It begins on December 25 when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ and ends twelve days later when the Magi...
Why doesn’t Yale University have to change its name? Elihu Yale was involved in the slave trade, but Yale is an elitist institution and an expensive brand.
KSL News reports:
Trustees vote to drop ‘Dixie’ from Dixie State University name
Dixie State University is en route to a name change.
The university’s board of trustees...
Does this mean Johns Hopkins University will change its name? Of course not. Like Yale, it’s a brand that’s worth hundreds of millions of dollars, so cancel culture will not apply.
CNN reports:
Johns Hopkins University thought its namesake was an abolitionist, but records show he owned enslaved people
The founder and namesake for...
Chuck Yeager, the heroic test pilot who first broke the sound barrier, has died at age 97.
The people who did this claim the tarp is part of an art installation. That’s ridiculous. We all know what’s going on here. This is a public university. It’s time to start demanding a cutoff of funds for behavior like this.
Campus Reform reports:
Faculty at Miami University cover up George Washington Statue
The...
While millions of Americans were celebrating Thanksgiving this week, against the wishes of numerous Democrat leaders, other people were destroying historical monuments in multiple cities.
Who would do such a thing? Do you think it was angry Trump supporters?
As I was preparing for Thanksgiving, I pulled up one of my Thanksgiving go-tos, which is just so, so good — George Washington’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1789.
The fact that this was a narrow rejection means the left will simply regroup and double down on their efforts, just watch.
The College Fix reports:
Brown student government narrowly rejects bid to remove Roman statues
Student activists at Brown University recently failed to convince the Ivy League institution’s student government to endorse its...
How long will it be before activists at Notre Dame demand that images of Jesus Christ be covered or removed?
The College Fix reports:
Christopher Columbus murals covered...
There has been a battle raging over Medieval history in higher education for a few years now. The left has really struggled to find a way to impose their social justice agenda on the subject.
The College Fix reports:
History scholar seeks to reclaim medieval period from white supremacists
Modern-day white supremacists look back...
Imagine being a student at UVA and holding yourself in higher regard than the person who founded the school.
The College Fix reports:
UVA students host community healing event after officials refuse to remove Thomas Jefferson statue
University of Virginia leaders’ stance to keep the school’s Thomas Jefferson statue despite protests and calls for...
This is so hypocritical. Harvard can rename everything on campus, but they will never drop the name Harvard. Know why? Because it’s a billion dollar brand. Same applies to Yale.
The College Fix reports:
Harvard...
When does someone stand up to students like these and just say no? This is all about power and control.
The College Fix reports:
Brown University students want Roman statues removed because they promote ‘white supremacy’
A Brown University student group, Decolonization at Brown, wants the school to remove two Roman statues displayed on...
Is this the new normal? Is the school afraid of campus radicals who might do this again?
The College Fix reports:
Five months later, and GWU still has not reaffixed beheaded George Washington monument
It’s been five months since George Washington University found a bust of its namesake and...
Has it ever occurred to anyone on the left that they come off as the disturbing authoritarians they accuse Trump of being? This is positively Orwellian.
From the school paper, the Berkeley Beacon:
Artists, activists come together for “Memorials: As Monuments Fall” webinar
Historical monuments and who they seek to memorialize have come under...
What makes these students more important than Abraham Lincoln? Nothing does, and they should be reminded of that.
The College Fix reports:
UW Madison student government passes resolution supporting removal of...
Nikole Hannah-Jones has admitted that her ‘1619 Project’ was more about controlling the narrative than presenting an accurate portrayal of history. She and the New York Times have also already scrubbed central aspects of the project, angering progressives.
Now, a group of scholars is calling on the Pulitzer board to revoke a...
