Writings

I believe that the antidote to statue-toppling is exposure to real history. I make the case in my column in the latest issue of Chronicles. You may read the column here:

By Wayne Allensworth Nurse Ratched is not amused I was talking to a friend recently about the madhouse that is life in the USA these days.  I raised a question during our conversation: When was the last time either of us had felt we lived in a more-or-less sane country?  It’s been a while: We finally agreed that it may have been sometime in the 1990’s. The 90’s were an “interglacial” period, as...

By Darrell Dow The hard left drift of Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden, the increasing violence and iconoclasm of Black Lives Matter and Antifa, and the remarks of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez about Father Damien should tell us that America is not a credal nation, as the Left and their neoconservative cousins claim, and if it ever was, well, AOC and the ruling class elites are trying to...

It takes a special kind of stupid to single out for removal from Capitol Hill’s Statuary Hall a statue of a man widely regarded as an exemplary human being, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez did just that when she burbled that Even when we select figures to tell the stories of colonized places, it is the colonizers and settlers whose stories are told — and virtually no one else. Check out...

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...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC to friend and foe, recently bemoaned the fact that so many of the statues found on Capitol Hill are representations of the most disfavored segment of humanity during this season of Wokeness, white males. AOC doesn’t beat around the bush in voicing her disdain: the problem with the statues is the race and sex of those they represent, not what they did. Indeed...

So Barack Obama has emerged to condemn the President and, by implication, those who voted for him, to great media acclaim. Obama is not just another self-professed servant of the people who grew to be phenomenally rich in politics. Or a supposed victim of racism who would today be a little known law professor somewhere if it were not for both blacks and whites voting for him for strictly racial...