McBride’s trial continues
Objections raised by shrill voices to Robert McBride as head of Ipid smack of racist vindictiveness, says Ike Moroe. Bloemfontein - The current frenzy of condemnation of Robert McBride (recommended...
View ArticleScholastic erases Israel from the map
Text smaller Text bigger The Times of Israel reported Wednesday that “Arab textbooks are not the only ones erasing Israel from their maps. Scholastic, the world’s largest publisher of children’s...
View ArticleLecturer examines ‘savage portrayals’ of men of color (Clark University)
(Source: Clark University) "How and why do so many negative images of young black males, particularly images steeped in an outsized criminality and violence, persist in mainstream media? What are some...
View ArticleIn Times of Tyranny, Democracy is Liberty's Friend
At many times in the history of the Anglo people, the abuses of liberty by Power (capitalized to indicate the official power of the centralized State and those close to it) have produced such...
View ArticleReclaim America – and demand all their resignations
This week, in the wake of revelations that millions of Americans have lost their health insurance as a result of Obamacare, Republicans of all stripes – and in particular their leaders, like House...
View ArticleUNC-CH faculty complain after conservative group seeks liberal...
A group of law professors at UNC-Chapel Hill is standing behind Gene Nichol, director of the school’s poverty center, after a conservative think tank requested the left-leaning professor’s emails,...
View ArticleUNC-CH faculty members complain after conservative think tank seeks liberal...
A group of law professors at UNC-Chapel Hill is standing behind Gene Nichol, director of the school’s poverty center, after a conservative think tank requested the left-leaning professor’s emails,...
View ArticleLincoln's Words at Gettysburg Resonate 150 Years Later
Deborah Block FILE - In this Oct. 1858 photo, President Abraham Lincoln is shown in a photograph by W.A. Thomson, made in Monmouth, Ill., on the day of his debate with Stephen A. Douglas. x FILE - In...
View ArticleGrieving the Bystander
According to scholar and journalist Nick Bryant, when, on 22 November 1963, news came that President John F. Kennedy had been assassinated in Dallas, Texas, African-Americans “felt the loss of their...
View ArticleOrganized Treachery vs. Organized Hypocrisy: A 35-Year Study of...
Not one to pull his punches or restrain his abundant intellect when speaking about the survival of his beloved Israel, Dr. Eidelberg takes no prisoners as he discusses who is to blame for Israel’s...
View ArticleCurbing radicalism on UK campuses
The Universities UK (UUK) has recently published a guidance on external speakers in higher education institutions with the aim of providing practical guidance for universities on the issue. This...
View ArticleLeonard Pitts Jr.: Let's bury the need to argue for the N-word
The N-word again. Of course. Six years after the NAACP staged its symbolic burial, that word has proven rumors of its demise greatly exaggerated. In just the last few weeks weve had the following:...
View ArticleIn Defense of a Loaded Word
MY father’s name is William Paul Coates. I, like my six brothers and sisters, have always addressed him as Dad. Strangers often call him Mr. Coates. His friends call him Paul. If a stranger or one of...
View ArticleJohn F. Kennedy: A New Yorker
For all the images of JFK sailing off Cape Cod, lounging poolside at Palm Beach or delivering speeches in Washington or Berlin, it’s worth recalling the significant ways in which he was a New Yorker....
View ArticleTalented New Faculty Welcomed to The City University of New York (CUNY - The...
(Source: CUNY - The City University of New York) An award-winning mathematician who solved a problem that puzzled mathematicians for decades, the winner of a prestigious Young Scientist Award from...
View ArticleCourt protects teacher who taught about N-word
In September, the Federal District Court for northern Illinois reversed a school board decision to fire a teacher because he taught his class about the N-word. The facts of this case are very...
View ArticleA concerned patriot calls for 'withdrawal of consent'
The U.S. government is increasingly showing its deep-set, abiding fear of free citizens who are armed. This fear is expressed in the paranoia that is noted on a continuing basis in the halls of...
View ArticleMuslim girl's story and my anti-Semitic boyhood
“I’m a Muslim girl who was born and raised in Brooklyn. I’m turning 16 and starting my junior year in the fall. My parents are from Bangladesh. So, that’s pretty much my bio. “But there’s a lot hiding...
View ArticleWe Are Radicals at Heart: A New History Gets America Wrong
By Harvey J. KayeDecember 5th 20135:45 am followMore Stories by Harvey J. Kaye A new book by Yuval Levin says America should discover its Burkean roots, but it’s Paine and his radical vision that are...
View ArticleParliament tribute to Mandela; both Houses adjourned for the day
New Delhi: Parliament paid tributes to Nelson Mandela on Friday with leaders saying that the death of the anti-apartheid icon has left a void in the struggle against tyranny and injustice. Both Lok...
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