Category: Culture Wars/Current Controversies

Cancel culture comes to Georgetown Law

By Damon Linker The Week Warnings about the rise of “cancel culture” may sometimes be overblown. But the case of Ilya Shapiro, a libertarian expert in constitutional law placed on “administrative leave” from Georgetown University’s law school, is an especially egregious example of the trend — and runs […]

Who’s Afraid of Naomi Wolf?

By K. Lloyd Billingsley Independent Institute The answer to that question is progressives, politicians, the media, and feminist luminaries . . . and for all the right reasons. “The rest of the world, at least on the progressive side in the United States, became increasingly cult-like and insular in its […]

What Progressives Did to Cities

A polemical shot from the “Flight 93” guy over the growing battle between the urban lumpenproletariant and urban bourgeoisie. What nearly all commentators on these issues, whether conservatives like Anton, centrist-liberals like Schellenberger, or far-left “defund the police” types never seem to understand is that this is what […]