In watching the events unfold in Israel and Gaza one can’t help but be struck by the aversion of many in the pro-Israel camp to self-reflect on their country’s current and historical aggression. This was on full display in a … Read more
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg is in the midst of a re-think. Echoing what conservatives have long known, she has begun to question “the gap between the rhetoric of sexual liberation and women’s real-world experiences.” In other words, sex positivity … Read more
Writing about woke/SJW activism is exhausting. Yet that exhaustion is outdone by the moral duty felt to address a society influenced by a steady stream of activistic drivel. Our latest example comes via soccer icon Megan Rapinoe, who just received the … Read more
Ezra Klein recently rebroadcast one of his “Best Of” podcasts, featuring Ta-Nehisi Coates and Nikole Hannah-Jones. Both recently took faculty positions at Howard University, and both have served as acolytes of what we can call the Racialized Industrial Complex. This group of … Read more
As an exercise, whenever I read that the U.S. has suffered another cyber attack, I wonder about the potential times the U.S. has committed one. Surely, I tell myself, the U.S. is smart and vigilant and aggressive enough to do … Read more
Count Gabe Kapler as another Bay Area coach speaking out against the mass killings in Buffalo and Uvalde, TX. Like Warriors Head Coach Steve Kerr, Kapler wants stronger gun control laws in the hope of preventing the next massacre. Unlike Kerr, … Read more
One can trust that millions of people were moved by Steve Kerr’s recent pre-game presser in which he lambasted conservative politicians for not doing more about gun control in light of the the mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in … Read more
Leonard Cohen once said of the 1960s: “I don’t think the sixties ever began. I think the whole sixties lasted maybe fifteen or twenty minutes in somebody’s mind. I saw it move very, very quickly into the marketplace. I don’t … Read more
Every one of my friends is pro-choice. I have spent countless hours in the trenches discussing abortion with them. I have listened well. And yet I am confused. I wonder how so many intelligent people can arrive at their pro-choice position … Read more
Dear Wimbledon, No event in sport has fueled a lifetime of memories quite as yours has. And yet I’ll not be watching you this year. Few sports have have compelled me to walk away or boycott them.[1]I cannot recall a … Read more