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The great abolitionist Frederick Douglass began his career as a speaker on the abolition circuit by relating his experiences as a slave, sometimes revealing to shocked audiences his whip-scarred back. A large photograph of such a back of a slave is featured in The 1619 Project, a special [...]

Few phenomena are as horrifically widespread as they are virtually unknown—at least in the West—as the Muslim persecution of Christians. The general facts are undeniable and have been and continue to be documented in a number of reports issued by a variety of human rights organizations around the [...]

On 18 August 2019, the New York Times devoted its Sunday magazine to rolling out a deftly orchestrated initiative to rewrite American history through the distorting prism of Critical Race Theory.  Nikole Hannah-Jones, an activist journalist with the newspaper, orchestrated the 1619 Project and furnished it with its [...]

Throughout my childhood, my mother had nightmares that the Nazis were coming for her. In Europe my co-ethnics lived that nightmare. From the time that the Romans invaded and colonized the holy land, finally defeated the Jewish resistance, and expelled most remaining Jews, many Jews have lived as [...]

As we begin a new year, one might ask what antisemitism could look like as we move through the decade of the 2020s. Who are the major purveyors of antisemitism today, what are their motivations, and what is causing an increase in antisemitism in Western societies so many [...]

Cancel culture is what we call the effort by leftists to banish people who defy the edicts of political correctness.  The idea extends to the inanimate, as when statues of George Washington are toppled, buildings renamed, and innocent objects such as plastic straws are outlawed.  But cancel culture [...]

For an event titled "Dismantling Anti-Semitism, Winning Justice," an interested observer might reasonably assume that this virtual panel discussion, scheduled for December 15th, would discuss ways to minimize instances of widespread antisemitism with the goal of reducing—or eliminating—its occurrence. That is what one would think, but in this [...]

In a revealing 2013 network promo, then-host Melissa Harris-Perry of MSNBC caused a stir by declaring, in the context of children’s education, “We’ve always had kind of a private notion of children: ‘Your kid is yours, and totally your responsibility.’ We haven’t had a very collective notion that [...]

Identity politics demands the reduction of individual identity to collective census category identities. You are no longer an individual person with hopes and fears, talents and abilities, and motivations and opinions. The most important thing about you is your sex, or your race, or your sexuality, or your [...]