When I write about Margaret Sanger’s May 1926 speech to the women’s chapter of the KKK in Silverlake, New Jersey—as I did again recently—liberals get upset. They accuse me of distortion and even making up the whole thing. Many of them cannot … Continue reading
Civil Rights and Racial Injustice
Black Pastors Protest Margaret Sanger at Smithsonian
Margaret Sanger is a saint in the feminist church. She is a charter member of the progressive hall of fame. Liberals revere this woman who preached “race improvement” and denounced what she called “human weeds,” “morons,” “idiots,” “imbeciles,” and the … Continue reading
STREAMING VIDEO | 2015 | Abortion is Not a Civil Right
STREAMING VIDEO | 2015 | Please Stop Helping Us
Jason Riley speaks at The Center for Vision & Values 2015 annual conference, “Family Matters.”
Martin Luther King and the Berlin Wall
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The Washington Post When we think of Martin Luther King Jr.’s great speeches, we don’t think of Berlin. And when we think of great American speeches in Berlin, we think of John F. … Continue reading
Martin Luther King’s Dream and the Declaration of Independence
August 28 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech at that great rally is rightly honored as one of the greatest speeches in American history. All Americans recognize the soaring rhetoric of … Continue reading
STREAMING VIDEO — 2012 – Sixth Annual Ronald Reagan Lecture
STREAMING VIDEO — 2011 J. Howard Pew Memorial Lecture
Conversation with Hon. Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, and Hon. Alice Batchelder, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Race, Segregation, and Heaven
The new movie, “The Help,” based on Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling book by the same name, continues to lead ticket sales at the box office. Both dramatize the extent and tragedy of segregation and discrimination in the South during the early … Continue reading
Sterilizing Those Pesky Humans: Earth Day with Paul Ehrlich
Every April 22 is Earth Day. As one who studies Soviet Russia, I can’t help notice that the day coincides with the birthday of Vladimir Lenin. The inaugural Earth Day occurred April 22, 1970, no less than Lenin’s birth centennial. … Continue reading
The Signing of Jackie Robinson: How Faith Helped Racial Healing
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at Crosswalk.com. For many Americans, April 15 marked Tax Day. But it also marked an event much more redeeming. On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier in major league baseball. The executive … Continue reading
Death’s Progress
Editor’s note: A longer version of this article first appeared in American Thinker. Progressivism is all-the-rage nowadays, with liberals having jettisoned the “liberal” label for the less maligned tag of “progressive.” This is tactical as much as philosophical. It’s fascinating … Continue reading
Descendants of America’s Eugenic Past
As of this morning, Angie Jackson’s RU-486 induced abortion has been viewed on YouTube more than 140,000 times. She said she filmed herself in the midst of an RU-486 abortion to demystify the procedure. Four weeks pregnant, she signed off … Continue reading
Reagan and Joe
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at National Review, February 6, 2010. This February 6 marks the 99thanniversary of Ronald Reagan’s birth. In a telling development, Republicans around the country have begun holding “Reagan Day” dinners, as they’ve traditionally done every … Continue reading
Let Us Give Thanks
As we celebrate our national Thanksgiving holiday in 2009, are you feeling worry, fear, anger, or despair about the direction of our country? Let us instead give thanks. As we pass through this temporal world of “tares and wheat,” we … Continue reading
Justice Ginsburg’s “Populations we Don’t Want to Have too Many of”
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at WORLDmag.com. Reprinted with permission of WORLDmag.com. To read more news and views from a Christian perspective, call 800-951-6397 or visit online. As Sonia Sotomayor was readying for her confirmation hearings, The New York … Continue reading
Alito v. Planned Parenthood
In recent weeks, Judge Samuel Alito Jr. has been portrayed as everything from “anti-woman” to a racial bigot. His confirmation hearings got so ugly that his wife, in the most regrettable image of the hearings, left the room in tears. … Continue reading
Jewish-Christian Unity At Easter
A few weeks ago I wrote an article describing Ronald Reagan’s views on Jesus Christ and the crucifixion. While most of the response was positive, I did receive some negative email. One writer complained that I rekindled the same “divisive” … Continue reading
Up from Segregation: Coming Full Circle
The United States Supreme Court soon will deal with whether or not the University of Michigan can use race as a determinant in admissions. I thought the courts already settled this in the 1960s. At least that’s the way it … Continue reading
Saddam’s Racism: Where’s the American Left?
Three whom God should not have created: Persians, Jews, and flies. — Hussein family proverb The slogans of the antiwar movement are by now quite familiar: No blood for oil. Wage peace, not war. Drop Bush not bombs. It is … Continue reading