It would be easy to take a side on the issue of Jordan Peterson. Certainly at this point most everyone has. The controversial Canadian professor, author, free speech activist and public speaker has developed a massive international reputation over the past three years since he initially spoke out against the Canadian...
Sometimes someone writes something that you wish you yourself had written.
A few weeks ago I had just put the finishing touches on my new novel, Nevergreen, a “high-spirited, richly imagined” campus satire that is both “smart and hilarious” (IMHO), when I learned that debut novelist Scott Johnston was a week away...
Democrat presidential hopeful Marianne Williamson gave a debate performance for the ages with her loopy, New Agey ramblings. Apparently, it worked on Granite State Democrat primary voters because she is ahead of Sen. Cory Booker (NJ), Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), and Robert “Beto” O’Rourke (TX) in New Hampshire polls.
Her campaign website...
Professor Jacobson shared his boyhood memories of the first time a man walked on the moon, and he spoke of how moving that was and remains. Indeed, across the nation, the majority of Americans feel the same way about a defining moment in our shared history.
The city council of Berkeley, CA, just took another step in the progressive competition for wokeness. They have changed municipal codes to be gender neutral, in an effort to be more inclusive.
Fang Zhou is an associate professor at Georgia Gwinnett College. He is also a legal immigrant from China and frequent critic of illegal immigration in the United States. His views on that subject, as well as political correctness, have triggered some people on the left.
Officials in Cambridge, MA, which is known for its progressive politics, have removed the Massachusetts state flag from city hall. The flag features an image of the Native American leader Massasoit (aka Ousamequin) with the arm of Myles Standish holding a sword at the top.
Conservatives in Australia scored a surprise upset victory, in an election liberals supposedly could not lose.
We covered the result Saturday night, including the liberal meltdowns which approached those seen in the U.S. on election night 2016, Australia: Conservatives score surprise upset victory as voters reject Labor climate change and income...
Democrats desperately want people to believe that Republicans are criticizing them in order to deliberately put them in harm’s way. If they can get enough people to believe this, they can simply silence all dissenting opinion as “incitement.”
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s successor, has come under fire for make a joke about gender-neutral bathrooms. Her remark was in response to a campaign waged by the left-wing Green Party to introduce gender-neutral bathrooms in official builds in the state of Berlin.
She said the third-gender toilets were for “men who cannot...
In the fall of 2018, Rider University in New Jersey surveyed students to find out which restaurant they would like to have on campus. Students preferred Chick-fil-A, but that choice was rejected by university leadership, which felt the company’s corporate values were insufficiently inclusive.
A photo of students in sombreros and taco costumes used to promote the event was deemed cultural appropriation.
The Washington Examiner reports:
Major college forced to...
The thinking here is that ‘freshmores’ is more inclusive because it doesn’t contain the word ‘men.’
The College Fix reports:
Dean urges students to use ‘freshmores’ instead of ‘freshmen’ to be more inclusive
Around the Honors College at Appalachian State, you may hear a different way of labeling first-year college students. While they’re commonly...
Last week at Columbia University, the school’s Asian American Alliance held a fundraising event called “CultureSHOCK:Reclaim” and invited comedian and SNL alum Nimesh Patel to perform. Halfway through his performance, student organizers walked on stage, took his microphone and told him to wrap it up.
Michaela Todd is the Vice President of the student government at Emporia State University in Kansas. During the run-up to the 2018 midterms, she wrote a post on Facebook to show her support of Republican Kris Kobach for governor. The post included the term ‘illegal aliens’ and it set off...
The long-running animated comedy series ‘The Simpsons’ is preparing to drop the character Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the Indian-American owner of the ‘Kwik-E-Mart’ due to political correctness.
This became an issue when comedian Hari Kondabolu made a documentary film called “The Problem With Apu” which was released last year.
Another campus statue is being singled out for removal over political correctness. “Prospector Pete” is going to be taken off the campus plaza of California State University Long Beach and moved to an alumni center, because critics say the Gold Rush contributed to deaths of indigenous peoples.
