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Gender Neutral Bathrooms and the Middle School Girl
At the risk of upsetting prevailing sensitivities, a woman’s argument for maintaining sex-segregated spaces.
Columbus Day Still Needs to Be Defended
It’s a true national holiday, not a sop to the diversity crowd, and it’s worth celebrating.
A Former Anglican Becomes a Saint
This Sunday, Cardinal John Henry Newman will become the first Englishman born since the 1600s to be canonized.
The Last WASP in Primetime
What the 1950’s quiz show scandals can teach us about meritocracy and the elite.
Who’s Got the Country Music Blues?
This truly American genre has gotten so superficial, corporate, and debased that it’s unrecognizable from its proud origins.
Does Laughing With ‘The Joker’ Make You a Creep?
That is what the PC wags are saying today, but there are many of us who will ‘get it’ and not for the reasons you think.
Remembering Jessye Norman, Voice of a World-Weary Angel
One of the great post-war classical singers was also courageous and eminently humane.
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The Art of the Trip
What being a kid in the back seat taught me about travel—and family life.
It’s Time to Rediscover the Power of Poetry
Memorizing it has become a lost art in the age of the iPhone, but it can still awaken us to a deeper understanding of our world.
Meeting the Transgender Moment
Coming this fall: Supreme Court battles may change the meaning of “sex” under the law.
The Comic Strip: A Gloriously American Institution
It’s been criticized as little better than the horoscope section. But there’s great wisdom in there for those willing to look.
The PC Brigade Takes Another Scalp: an SNL Comedian
In our cancel culture, comics like Shane Gillis who push the envelope and don’t virtue signal have become suspect.
When Students Melt Down Over a ‘B’
Rampant grade anxiety is a reflection of deeper American social dysfunction, with our children the biggest victims.
How Modesto Became an American Dystopia
What moral gate has broken open, allowing obvious social pathologies to fester without stigma?
I’m a Feminist Who Was Purged by the Trans Left
Because I don’t believe children should be medically malformed and that gender is just a costume and “a feeling.”