Twitter Has Too Much Power Over America, And It Needs To End
It’s not enough to kick conservatives off of Twitter. Narrative control is the goal. Any alternative, any other avenue of ‘freer’ speech, must be shut down.
If You Don’t Support Black Lives Matter, You’re Fired
Black Lives Matter isn’t interested in fighting actual racism. But it is interested in whether you support its agenda—and getting you fired if you don’t.
Amy Cooper Doesn’t Deserve Sympathy, But Social Media Shaming Is An Unhealthy Norm
Amy Cooper didn’t need to lose her job for being deeply obnoxious. She didn’t need to grapple with this mistake on the world stage. The sentence did not fit the crime.
Kobe Bryant’s Life Is A Reminder Of The Reality Of Redemption
Bryant’s death was met with denunciations of him on Twitter. But his life proved that redemption is possible, even for famous people with checkered lives.
Carson King Defies Cancel Culture By Raising Even More Money
After the Des Moines Register outed offensive tweets local charity sensation Carson King had written at age 16, donations to his charitable cause tripled.
Bloomberg’s Hit Piece On Trump Official Is Why Americans Distrust The Media
Ben Penn’s smear of Leif Olson is the latest example of how cancel culture is hollowing out civic life and undermining the media’s credibility.
Australian Rugby Star Sacked For Posting Christian Meme On Instagram
GoFundMe, where Israel Folau initially located his legal defense fund after being fired over a Christian Instagram meme, abruptly closed his account, accusing him of bigotry.
Here’s Why I Heart Social Media, And Y’all Should Too
We can be reminded of people we would have otherwise forgotten, we can savagely dismantle bad arguments, and we can find kindred spirits across the world. Social media isn’t so bad after all.
Wokesters Go After Democrat Cartoonist For Objecting To Abortion
He was making cartoons, believing in Jesus, voting Democratic, and holding quietly pro-life views. Why drag him into the Twittersphere? Can’t a guy just live his life?
Indie Sci-Fi Authors Are Upending Traditional Publishing, And It’s Turned Into A War
As mainstream sci-fi publishing has gotten more and more political, writers have discovered there’s a huge market for apolitical, independent books.
The Biggest Threat To Press Freedom Is The Media Itself
Major media organizations are about to be sued for irresponsibly turning innocent Covington Catholic school boys into objects of national hatred. A lack of standards threatens to open the media to all kinds of legal liabilities.
The Covington Catholic Students Deserve A Huge Apology From Everyone. I’ll Start
The Covington Catholic school students should go on with the rest of their young lives knowing that many are sorry they contributed to their public impugning and regret it.
The Problem With Outrage Culture Isn’t The Outrage, It’s How It’s Wielded
Although these often superfluous, theatrical, and overindulgent displays have been the source of much ridicule, outrage and offence are not intrinsically bad intuitions.
The Bigotry At The Heart Of The Covington Affair Belongs To The Left
After days of outrage and condemnations, the Covington affair has revealed a disturbing bigotry among far too many media figures and outlets on the left.
No, A Catholic Kid Wearing A MAGA Hat Isn’t Like A Ku Klux Klansman
Whatever comes out of this will be a defining moment for all those Covington Catholic kids and their families and the institutions that failed to protect them.
New York Times Columnist Can’t Figure Out If Racist Tweets Are A Fireable Offense Or Not
He wanted Roseanne Barr fired, yet he defends Sarah Jeong’s racist tweets. New York Times columnist Bret Stephens is a big hypocrite on speech policing.
Baseball Fans Clap Back At Online Mobs Out For Players’ Careers Over Teenage Tweets
A career death penalty for a tweet seems egregious especially when the same guardians of public morality are extolling those who offend public sensibilities in other ways.
What To Learn From The Social Justice Warrior Who Was Eaten By His Own Mob
Mob compliance is a vicious and deadly cycle. The only way to stop the cycle is to stop complying with the mob’s demands.
Online Mobs Drive Ornithologist Into Research Secrecy After Learning He Killed A Bird
Something must have gone wrong with the culture’s conspicuous love of science, because it is manifesting itself in odd spasms of hostility to science.
Ugly Social Media Comments Hurt Our Christian Witness And Our Country
Following Jesus means remembering Christ’s command to forgive and to pray for our enemies. It means letting go of malice and bitterness, even under fire.