Culture
The rape kit ‘backlog’ narrative lets police off the hook
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | September 16, 2019 Hours after accepting a beer in an open cup from a stranger at a San Francisco road race in 2010, Heather Marlowe woke up in an unfamiliar home, vomiting and in pain. Believing she had been drugged and raped, Marlowe...
After the opioid verdict and fine, few industries are safe
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | September 1, 2019 In a case that is bound to have ripple effects for years to come, a state court judge in Oklahoma last week held that Johnson & Johnson must pay half a billion dollars to the state government as penance for...
Parsing transgender equality in athletics
The Boston Globe | Op-Ed | June 24, 2019 Who is eligible to compete on women’s sports teams? That seemingly simple question is at the heart of a lawsuit filed last week by three Connecticut teenage girls. The teens, elite high school runners, have filed a complaint...
The Gospel According to Game of Thrones
The National Review | Film & TV | April 14, 2019 Christian references in the series abound. They might provide clues about how it’s likely to end. Winter may be over, but much of America is eagerly awaiting chilly temperatures in our favorite fictional city,...
What Does the Future Hold for New York’s Columbus Statue?
The National Review | February 1, 2018 It may remain up for now, but the Left is playing the long game. It looks like Christopher Columbus can stay put. For now. Earlier this month, New York City’s Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers...
Straight Talk for College Women
The Wall Street Journal | September 11, 2017 Dear female members of the class of 2021: Now that you’ve set up your rooms and purchased your course materials, it’s time for some straight talk about sexual assault. If you follow the news, you’ve probably heard that 1 in...
“Sexual Paranoia” Comes to Campus
National Review Online| April 6 , 2017 | Book Review| Something is rotten with the state of academia. So says Laura Kipnis, a tenured professor of film studies at Northwestern University. And she should know. Two years ago Kipnis was investigated by university...
Those Imperialistic Christian Missionaries
The Wall Street Journal | Op-ed | Dec. 9, 2016 Some Williams College professors want ‘context’ for a monument to spreading the Gospel. Williamstown, Mass. The Justice Department wants to keep fighting AT&T ’s merger with Time Warner, and maybe it feels it must...
College Sex Meets the Star Chamber
The Wall Street Journal | Op-ed | October 23, 2016 Yale University’s motto is Lux et Veritas, light and truth. But at Yale today, bureaucrats charged with investigating and punishing alleged sexual misconduct seem less interested in truth or fairness than in scoring...
Facebook, Bias, and Transparency: My trip to Silicon Valley
From New Boston Post | May 20, 2016, 6:28 EST On Wednesday, I was honored to be included among a small group of conservative leaders and journalists who met with Mark Zuckerberg, Sheryl Sandberg, and other Facebook executives about the recent Trending Topics...
Jason Riley and the Left’s “Conservative Minority” Problem
New Boston Post | May 15, 2016, 7:22 EST Jason Riley must be suffering from whiplash. This spring, the Wall Street Journal columnist and scholar with the prestigious Manhattan Institute was invited, then disinvited, and now finally re-invited to give a lecture at...
What Americans of any Faith can Learn from Hanukkah
New Boston Post | December 10, 2015 Hanukkah is about religious liberty. Plain and simple. Although many Americans are familiar with the symbol of the Menorah and the custom of playing Dreidel, few understand what Hanukkah is really about. Some people think of...
The New Thought Police
Time for feminists to grow up
Robin Williams’s Death Too Close for Comfort
Boston Herald | Thursday, August 14, 2014| Op-Ed | I am not one to grieve for celebrities. I shed no tears when Princess Diana died in a high-speed car chase, when James Gandolfini suffered a sudden (and fatal) heart attack, or when Whitney Houston drowned in a...
Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Threatens Economy
The Boston Herald | Op-ed | May 20, 2014 The divestment movement is coming to a town near you. No, we're not talking about apartheid. Or Big Tobacco. Those divestment movements are so, you know, pre-millenial. Today's activists are focused not on international human...
“Miley Cyrus is emblematic of her generation: a generation of narcissists, showered from birth with praise and adulation, emotionally coddled and raised to believe that self-expression and self-fulfillment are the noblest social goods; a generation that confuses disapproval of their choices with discrimination and intolerance. The Miley generation regards ‘judgmentalism’ as the gravest of sins. Yet, ironically, they are the very first to condemn as ‘haters’ those who dare to express unfashionable opinions.”
