R.I.P. Charlie Kirk
I didn't know Charlie personally. But he did send me a kind message last year. "I love all people" is what he said. If that is any indication of who the man was, then this country has lost someone special today.
Partisan politics did not stand in the way of him paying me a compliment, and it should not stand in the way of mourning him either.
We cannot become a society where expressing political views, even controversial ones, leads to violence. Whatever you think of his politics, Charlie was a decent man, a patriot, and a brave defender of his values. My heart goes out to his wife and his kids.
Congratulations to the @eagles, winners of #SuperBowlLIX! This team is full of superstars, and Hurts was incredible.
The offensive and defensive lines were also sensational, and the Eagles defensive line is the best in the NFL.
Congratulations also to owner Jeffrey Lurie, all the coaches, the medical staff, the rest of the organization, and the city of Philadelphia.
Enjoy the celebration!
Thomas Sowell deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, if for only one reason: his courage.
I had a front row seat in the late 1980’s culture wars and saw how vicious the liberal response to my father, Shelby Steele, was when he spoke his mind freely. He was told he wasn’t black, was called a race traitor, and lost everything from job to friends.
Though Sowell is too much of a man to dwell on these things, he suffered them as well in his own way. Yet he persevered like a warrior made stronger by battle.
When Sowell first reached out to my father in 1990 or so and we had dinner at his house, it was like courage uniting with courage. Aside from my father, Sowell was the first man I met who didn’t give a F about anything but truth. He just didn’t.
When they talked, Sowell’s facts and reasoning blended in with my father’s psychological and cultural insights to paint a picture as complete as could be. Unlike with others, there were no ideological constraints to their conversations and I always admired Sowell’s humanistic approach to his vast wealth of knowledge.
He is always humble. He came up from nothing and emerged from white oppression to reach the top of the intellectual world. He is freedom and he likely won’t care about this call for him to receive this award of freedom because his work alone is his prize.
But the call should still be made, if only to say thank you.
Never have I read such a SPOT ON, eloquently penned description of the horror, and hell that was also MY “lived experience” on the campus of an elite private school in NC.
The last four years were the most repressive of my lifetime, by @PsychRabble https://t.co/BJatay0wjG
“All of us together are confronting the shocking reality that a group of Yale students has declared the center of Yale off-limits to those who do not share their political views – particularly since their intent and effect is to rid parts of Yale of Zionist Jews, among others,” wrote Rubenstein and Cohen. “This is, and ought to be, a concern for every member of our community, regardless of politics or theology regarding Israel or the current war.” -- Rabbi Jason Rubenstein, Jewish Chaplain at Yale, and Uri Cohen, executive director of the Slifka Center, denounced the “liberated zone” on Cross Campus in an email message to members of the Jewish community at Yale.
And they are exactly correct. Students may not prevent their fellows from going anywhere they want on campus.
https://t.co/Q8BaPEvmsz
The level of hatred shown towards innocent Israeli hostages is unlike anything I've ever seen. Someone smeared dog sh*t on photos of Ariel and Kfir Bibas, the two children aged 4 and 1 who were kidnapped by Hamas on October 7th
Public prayer is beautiful. But when Harvard’s Jews aren’t allowed to leave their Menorahs overnight during Hanukkah while simultaneously antisemitic students are allowed to pitch tents, violate school policy, call for an intifada, and pray, then it’s a double standard+antisemitic
Always think about what you’re incentivizing. In this case, not just the brutality of 10/7 by Hamas, intentionally targeting thousands of civilians (which they’re happy to repeat), but endangering of other marginalized, civilian populations people purport to care about, who will be promptly tunneled under and made to pay terrorist groups for the privilege of being the perfect cover.
Today is the day!
My first book, "The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America," is now out in fine bookstores everywhere!
The Audiobook is read by yours truly!
https://t.co/61VkZ3ooM2
This is utterly brilliant. A student accuses @jk_rowling of being transphobic. This teacher skilfully dissects the claim and challenges it by asking questions.
He teaches not what to think, but how to think critically.
Watch until the end.
You see the epiphany in real-time.