A school in northwest London might seem to have little bearing on our culture wars in the United States. But the nature of the Michaela Community School, located in the unfashionable district of Wembley, and of a lawsuit it won this month in Britain’s High Court offer lessons for other countries struggling to accommodate large […]
An anonymous Turkish diplomat told Reuters this week that Turkey played the role of a back channel intermediary between the United States and Iran in the run-up to the Iranian missile strike in Israel. According to the source, Tehran informed Turkey of its plans for the strike in advance in an effort to limit the […]
From the minute they set foot on campus, college students are thrown into a political cauldron. Diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, which “believe the university should be used to re-engineer American society away from color-blind meritocracy and toward equality of outcomes,” consequentially fracture student communities on the basis of politics, gender, and race. These offices […]
In the face of overwhelming evidence showing the harm of transitioning gender-confused children, an LGBT organization is scheduled to host a transgender camp in Arlington, Virginia, this summer for children as young as 6 years old. Last week, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service released a report criticizing the use of so-called gender-affirming care for […]
Across the country Monday, thousands of United States citizens were detained against their will by criminal protesters. In Seattle and Chicago, travelers were blocked from entering the airport. In New York City, the Brooklyn Bridge was shut down. In Philadelphia, all of Center City came to a standstill. In San Francisco, commuters on the Golden […]
Since Oct. 7, myself and others in the Iranian community have been unsettled by an anxious awareness of how radicalized Westerners are inching dangerously...
THIS WEEK’S OTHER TRUMP LEGAL STORY. The trial of former President Donald Trump, the paperwork case over the nondisclosure agreement he had with a porn star, continues with jury selection in Manhattan. It’s been extensively covered; this newsletter wrote not one but two previews last week, plus more discussion yesterday. So enough about that for a […]
If someone says, “Trust the science!” these days, it’s usually an effort to short-circuit debate over weighty policy issues. “Trust the science” has been deployed in the past five years to prevent debate over COVID school closures and mask mandates, over electric-car subsidies, and over sex changes for boys and girls. For my entire time […]
