Category: Arts & Entertainment

Denounce Putin, or Be Blacklisted

By Heather Mac Donald City Journal Compelled speech is becoming routine in academia. On campuses, faculty candidates for hiring and tenure increasingly must attest to their dedication to diversity to be considered for a job or a promotion. At least one university requires professors to post a “land […]

John Cleese has his microphone taken away at South by Southwest festival for saying that Britain should get ‘reparations from Italy and France’ for Romans and Normans enslaving Britons

By Jacob Thorburn For Daily Mail British comedian John Cleese in row with fellow comics over slave reparations Monty Python icon had been at South by Southwest public event in Texas, USA  But he landed himself in hot water after joking about France and Italy owing Brits slave […]

My Norman Mailer Problem—and Ours

By Darryl Pinckney The Nation Digging down into the roots of white America’s infatuation with Black. Norman Mailer was proud of his essay “The White Negro: Superficial Reflections on the Hipster.” Published in Dissent in 1957, it was reprinted in Advertisements for Myself (1959), Mailer’s anthology of selections […]