Collecting My Thoughts

What happened to the American College of Surgeons (ACS) in the wake of the George Floyd killing. "In the chaotic, hyper-racialized, and...

Michael Rectenwald is the author of numerous books and poetry collections. He is a retired professor of literature. He's recently starte...

"The efforts in Florida, Arizona, Texas, and Missouri join a bundle of bills that have passed in other states in the past two years or ...

"As an evolutionary biologist, I am quite used to attempts to censor research and suppress knowledge. But for most of my career, that k...

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland has taken a law hastily passed over 20 years ago after 9/11 to stop foreign terrorists (Patriot act) a...

"Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action." Ian Fleming, Goldfinger Whether you're a lawyer, do...

This morning I saw a TV report of a flying taxi being demonstrated in Dubai, made by the Chinese. The minute I saw it I was pretty sure the ...

From an investment letter: "It is now clear from the data that Sweden, which never shut down other than for the very old and nursing ...

How should we conservatives think about race and critical theory, CRT; the misnamed gender affirmation or transgenderism; the climate change...

Peggy Noonan, whom I gave up on when she went all soft and gooey and swooned over Obama in 2008:  "It is startling when two speeches wi...

"When we “wake up” to the belief that everything is about the conflict of the oppressed versus the oppressor, and after we deconstruct ...

CRT by any other name is still CRT. And it's in places I didn't expect. This blog essay is about County Extension (your tax dollars ...

Democrat talking heads on news TV are denying that CRT is being taught in schools [defending Democrats who lost Tuesday around the nation on...

Even with Republican Presidents Bush and Trump, the deep state was busy sowing dissent among government employees and had been for a long ti...

Michael Smith of Utah writes: "I just can't get past the idea that our most significant problem is the superficiality of our socie...

I haven't heard any parents opposing CRT threatening blacks with death, but that's how the proponents are responding--let them die. ...

How are Americans served by the woke take over of the military? Recommending that sailors read books that trash the Constitution and denounc...

There are even white men (gasp) who have something to say about the motives behind the planned, organized divisiveness. James Lindsay and H...

 From American Spectator, comparing it to the four states of cancer in which the signs aren't noticed until the victim is almost gone:  ...

This doesn't really surprise me--the hoaxes, I mean.  https://www.foxnews.com/us/racist-graffiti-michigan-albion-college-student? The a...