January 15, 2024

A Sure Shot at Fixing Crime

Crime is killing New Orleans.  A Bravo TV show cut the number of episodes produced in the city because its crew repeatedly fell victim to carjackers.  A large beer maker, Faubourg Brewery, couldn’t find anyone to work the ni...

May 20, 2023

Open the Overton Window!

The Overton Window is the range of political opinions considered acceptable at any given time.  Some ideas, once mainstream, can fall outside the shifting Overton Window.  The military draft, for example, was once considered commo...

November 7, 2022

Wearing the Kendi blinders

Ibrahim X. Kendi once famously said: "When I see racial disparities, I see racism."  For Kendi, no further effort is exerted, and no thought is required.  In contrast, someone such as Thomas Sowell sees a ...

March 21, 2022

How slavery should be taught

The current backlash against Critical Race Theory in K–12 schools has been mischaracterized as an attempt to ban teaching about slavery.  Actually, the proper teaching of the history of slavery undermines CRT.  Few...

August 18, 2021

No Standard, No Problem

Equity is equality of outcome among racial and ethnic groups. Recently, the pursuit of equity in education, criminal justice, and in the professions has resulted in an impressive string of victories. In education, equity warriors have been frustra...

December 5, 2020

Joy Reid's hysteria

Recently, MSNBC commentator Joy Reid stated that black people might not trust a COVID-19 vaccine because it was developed during the Trump administration, and because of past unethical treatment of blacks by the medical community, such as w...

October 5, 2020

The Working Class vs. Wokism

Winston Smith, the protagonist in George Orwell’s 1984, said: “If there was hope, it must lie in the proles…” Increasingly, events have shown these words to be prescient. Last week in Louisiana, the St. Bernard Parish School ...

June 15, 2020

PC doesn't suit New Orleans

New Orleans culture is a gem with many facets that make it America's most unique city.  Recently, Mayor LaToya Cantrell tweeted a picture of the Joy Theater marquee reading: "Everything You Love About New Orleans Is Because Of Blac...

April 16, 2020

Woke hammers and racist nails

It appears that COVID-19 afflicts and kills blacks at higher rates than whites. The virus is more dangerous to people who have diabetes, high blood pressure, or obesity. Since blacks have these conditions at higher rates than whites, the virus has ta...

October 15, 2019

The Left's imagined valor

"Pantsuit Nation" is a popular Facebook group, with 3.2 million members.  Recently, a member received 90,000 positive reactions for the "bravery" of wearing a shirt with "Make Racism Wrong Again" printed on it....

March 8, 2019

The reluctant Trumper

Many Progressives and NeverTrump conservatives are certain that once they convince their pro-Trump or Trump-ambivalent friends that he is a deeply flawed person, they will see the light and oppose the president reflexively.  The fault in th...