Race, Ethnicity, Gender

[caption id="attachment_87953" align="aligncenter" width="690"] An image of a defaced statue of St. Junipero Serra that appeared on social media on Aug. 17. The damage to the statue, located in northern Los Angeles, was quickly repaired. (Credit: Screen capture.)[/caption] As debate spread across... Read more

Let’s get something out of the way: Charlottesville is not about Confederate statues or Robert E. Lee or the Civil War or American history. What happened on Friday night and Saturday is about power, specifically about forcing the great mass of Americans to choose sides in a zero-sum clash... Read more

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQYZ-bMpoXU[/embed] President Donald Trump condemned the white nationalist groups that rallied in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday in a statement delivered at the White House. The strongly-worded statement followed his initial condemnation Saturday... Read more

[caption id="attachment_87719" align="aligncenter" width="1024"] CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - AUGUST 12: White nationalists, neo-Nazis and members of the "alt-right" clash with counter-protesters as they enter Lee Park during the "Unite the Right" rally August 12, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia. After... Read more

Back in March, protests erupted over a painting displayed at the New York City Whitney Museum’s biennial. Some activists stood in front of the picture, trying to block others from viewing it. Others called for it to be taken down, and some even called for the work to be destroyed. But it... Read more

The General Synod of the Church of England has officially passed a motion welcoming and affirming transgender people to the church. A top bishop also declared that being LGBT is "not a sin." "That this Synod, recognizing the need for transgender people to be welcomed and affirmed in their... Read more

Transgender politics have taken Americans by surprise, and caught some lawmakers off guard. Just a few short years ago, not many could have imagined a high-profile showdown over transgender men and women’s access to single-sex bathrooms in North Carolina. But transgender ideology is not... Read more

As our society unlearns masculinity and feminizes every stage of male life, boys pay a steep price. Let me share with you two troubling — and, I believe, closely linked — news reports. The first, from this weekend, comes courtesy of the American Enterprise Institute’s Mark Perry. In one... Read more

A 21-year-old girl was given nearly 600 column centimetres in last weekend’s edition of New Zealand’s largest newspaper. That’s almost two full pages, including photos, of the broadsheet format used by the NZ Herald on Saturdays. What had she done? Sailed solo around the world? Won an... Read more

One of the greatest moral buzzwords of our age is “inclusivity.” It has become a favorite on the lips of politicians, executives, celebrities, academics, and pastors alike. Like “fairness,” “peace,” “dignity,” or “diversity,” it has quickly achieved the coveted status... Read more