Commentary Since retiring from the university, several people have asked if I miss it. I tell them I miss what it was, but not what it has become. Higher education in America has gone from being the best in the world to one of the most pathetic. Why? It’s hard to describe what academia was to…

Commentary The only thing not going viral in China is the truth. Chinese officials are spewing lies to cover up the massive COVID outbreak there. Worse, U.S. public health officials dawdled for a week, allowing air travelers from China in without testing, while other countries immediately blocked infected travelers from entering. Aerial photos and videos…

The co-founder of a new comedy club in London has criticised the cultural “gatekeepers” who prevent the public from seeing edgy comedians who do not conform to political correctness. Andy Shaw, co-founder of Comedy Unleashed, told NTD’s “British Thought Leaders” programme, “There’s a huge disjoint between the cultural curators who think they know what’s best…

Commentary The other day, I was walking out of Penn Station in New York City and had to step over some homeless bums just to get to my taxi. Pardon me. I’m so very sorry. I simply cannot believe that I wrote that. It’s so offensive. Having now consulted the Centers for Disease Control and…

“They’re experimenting on the body, and people are paying a massively high price for these medical experimentations,” says Dr. Miriam Grossman, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and author of “You’re Teaching My Child What?” In this recent two-part episode of “American Thought Leaders,” Grossman and host Jan Jekielek discussed the ideological movement behind the promotion of “gender-affirming…

As Barclay McGain walked into the campus of the University of Queensland (UQ), the lack of diversity in political clubs caught his attention. There’s the Socialist Alternative, three different climate change clubs, the UQ Greens, the Labor left, and the Labor right. Meanwhile, on the right, there’s the UQ Liberal National Society, which McGain argued…

While political correctness may disguise as a form of politeness and civility, it’s a type of language control and groupthink now dominating the Western world, an Australian educator and commentator Kevin Donneally argues in his latest book “The Dictionary of Woke”, published in September. Donneally, one of Australia’s leading conservative public intellectuals, said that political…

Commentary If you’ve been around for a while, you probably remember the phrase “politically correct.” Being called politically correct was not a compliment. Rather, it meant that you had an unhealthy obsession with not offending anyone, even if you had to say some rather silly things in the process. For example, instead of saying husband…

Commentary Language is a critical tool for communication among humans; we cry “watch out” when a speeding car hurtles toward a pedestrian. We also think of language as a cognitive tool for society at large, since all human learning is closely tied to how we learn and process language. Yet sometimes we forget language is also an important social and cultural…

Commentary “The protesters falsely claimed that vaccines do not work.” So stated the reporter on last night’s TV news. In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m homing in on that little weasel word “falsely.” Without it, the sentence would have read well enough—the protesters made a claim, which might be right or wrong. But to seed…