Robin DiAngelo, the best-selling author of White Fragility, is a big believer in citing minorities. In an “accountability” statement on her website, which makes repeated reference to her Ph.D., DiAngelo, 67, tells “fellow white people” that they should “always cite and give credit to the work of BIPOC people who have informed your thinking.” It
NASA’s “Climate Kids” webpage offers fun environment-related educational activities, films, and video games for children in kindergarten. It also warns children that the world is undergoing cataclysmic warming, sea levels are rising, global ice coverage is diminishing, and their future may very well be doomed. Climate Kids proclaims that the cost of fossil fuels is
‘We will reserve the right to respond at a later time,’ Hezbollah leader Nasrallah says Sunday after drone attack Israel destroys a Hezbollah drone. (Jalaa Marey/AFP/Getty Images) Hezbollah on Sunday threatened further aggression in its war on Israel, leaving U.S. officials scrambling to contain the fallout of a weekend strike on the Jewish state that
Reviewing really excellent books is great fun: You learn important new facts, are hugely impressed by an author’s analytical ability or archival research, or come away with a far deeper understanding of someone you knew only passingly. In stark contrast, having to review a really bad book is deeply unpleasant and sticks in your memory
It is not wrong to say that America made C.S. Lewis. Lewis’s 1942 book The Screwtape Letters was popular in Britain but was initially rejected by American publishers until Macmillan took a chance on it in 1943. It was a huge success. Macmillan quickly brought out his The Problem of Pain and The Case for
In What This Comedian Said Will Shock You, comedian Bill Maher distills decades of political and cultural insight into a single volume with the goal of tackling the most important issues of our time while remedying any loss of “philosophical coherence” for longtime viewers of his HBO show, Real Time with Bill Maher. Across 24
When Tim Walz launched his 2006 campaign for Congress in rural Minnesota, he boasted in his public biography that in 1993, he “was named the Outstanding Young Nebraskan by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce for his service in the education, military, and small business communities.” That was not true. It was a small lie about