AuthorR. Cort Kirkwood

As I reported at The New American,  the St. Louis County Prosecutor secretly opened an “investigation” of former policeman Darren Wilson, who shot “gentle giant” Michael Brown in self defense in 2014. Wilson shot Brown, who had just robbed a convenience store, because Brown tried to kill him. The evidence was clear from the beginning. A grand jury refused to indict Wilson because it learned...

My alma mater, Loyola University of Maryland, has canceled one of the surpassing women of American letters. The courageous Jesuit who runs the place, the Rev. Brian F. Linnane, stripped Flannery O’Connor’s name from a dormitory because “some of her personal writings reflected a racist perspective.” He burbled something about “holding ourselves accountable.” O’Connor was required reading when I...