Culture
Jonathan Zimmerman is going to get his ass fired. Not at Penn where he teaches education and history (and has tenure), but from the Philadelphia Inquirer, where he has been a veteran, left-leaning contributor. His offense? Deviation from progressive orthodoxy. Look — it’s bad enough the broadsheet felt obliged to
Culture
When things happen in New York, America’s largest city, there is usually a spillover effect. A new policy becomes law, and pretty soon New York wannabes become copycats. (OK, to be fair, when a policy works, why shouldn’t it be copied?) I am talking about the soon-to-be-instituted congestion
Culture
It’s a little crazy at the White House this Easter, which is a religious holiday, the most important holiday on the Christian calendar. In one case the holiday is being disrespected, but not in the other. In the first case, some were surprised to learn that children of National
Culture
No, it made me laugh, and that is my test for what gets used. I don’t have to agree. The interesting thing about this, if you want to analyze it, is that the target is not really women — it is the Disney corporation, and its movement into the Magic
Elections
As a fellow columnist, Tom Ferrick, used to say about being a columnist, Often wrong, but always certain. He said it in Latin, because he went to parochial school, but that’s not important. To be successful as a columnist, you must have clear, sharp opinions. Some think that makes
Journalism
Some have described it as the inmates taking over the asylum, and since MSNBC hosts had the pole position in the uprising, that’s understandable. But their loud objections caused their boss — remarkably — to do a 180-degree turn, and rescind his hiring of ousted Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel
Cherelle Parker
While Cherelle Parker — Philadelphia’s 100th and first Black female mayor — promised no new taxes in her first budget address, she did not mention that she was more than doubling the mayor’s budget, a move that even the friendly Inquirer described as “unusual.” Her budgeted staff is exploding from
Immigration
In an ideological 6-3 split, U.S. Supreme Court conservatives had their way in allowing Texas to continue to arrest and deport illegal aliens while the Texas law is being challenged in lower courts. It is a significant ruling because, until now, immigration enforcement has been thought of as a
China
I am in a minority. No, not that. 😁 I am in the minority of Americans who do not use TikTok, the controversial Chinese-owned video-sharing app. Los Angeles-based TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which is based in China, and the accusation against TikTok (aside from its addictive properties) is the China
Military
“Duty, Honor, Country.” That is the motto of the United States Military Academy and it is not changing. You may have gotten a different impression from some conservative voices. It is being removed from West Point’s mission statement, a statement that is changed periodically, according to the Associated Press.
Cherelle Parker
By tradition, the legacy media waits 100 days to assess the performance of a new president, governor, or mayor. I’ll jump the gun with my assessment of Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker who is (say it all together now) the city’s 100th mayor and first female mayor and Black
Israel
By Tunku Varadarajan Many Arab politicians in the Middle East and beyond were equivocal in criticizing Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel. Not Mansour Abbas. “The massacre,” Mr. Abbas said on Nov. 6, “is against everything we believe in, our religion, our Islam, our nationality, our humanity.” He has