Mike is the Angeles T. Arredondo E Pluribus Unum Senior Fellow in the Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation. Read his research.
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This time, they’re coming after baseball. Baseball. Get it? The national pastime. The inner sanctum of homespun goodness. Your last refuge from the crazy. The… Read More
EducationCommentary
Ohio college students should thank Jerry Cirino. The Republican state senator has written a bill designed to spare those students instruction in the type of sordid thinking that… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Virginia state official Martin Brown is the latest reminder that DEI—“diversity, equity, and inclusion”—is a sham, a strategy to force systemic change and not to… Read More
SocietyCommentary
There are doppelgangers in this world—people who look uncannily like you without being related. But aside from this exception that proves the rule, all of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
It was a bit cognitively dissonant last month when some of the best-known merchants of critical race theory began whining that their campaign to transform… Read More
EducationCommentary
State governments in places like Florida, Virginia, and Arkansas are leading the fight against the use of race and sex to divide the country. These… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Lt. Hiroo Onoda hid in a Philippine jungle for three decades after World War II, devotedly carrying out his soldierly duties until 1974, when he… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
You don’t need a political science degree from the Sorbonne to know there are forces attempting regime change in America. Diversity, equity, and inclusion; critical race theory; environmental,… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Conservatives haven’t been as interested as progressives are in capturing the federal bureaucracy, or at least they’ve been much less successful. That goes double for… Read More
SocietyCommentary
President Joe Biden came into office promising to be a unifier, but make no mistake, he’s rapidly becoming the divider-in-chief. He is now reviving former… Read More
EducationCommentary
It turns out that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis was once again right to take a stand against woke ideology when he banned a course ostensibly… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Diversity, equity, and inclusion seems to have entered the bloodstream of U.S. politics, and it’s not just one party with it in its veins. Sure,… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A very American, and very conservative, word may soon find its way back into the political lexicon: normalcy. Its return is required by the times… Read More
SecurityCommentary
America enters 2023 as a radically different society because of the 2020 violence linked to Black Lives Matter. It took years to knit the revolutionary network that… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
By greenlighting the sale of 18 Spanish-language radio stations to a group linked to billionaire George Soros, the Biden administration is handing millions of unwary listeners over… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Sometime about half a century ago, the Marxist Left, determined to force a revolution, came up with what it thought was a fail-proof strategy: Get minorities… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
How is it that equity, a doctrine that tells government and the private sector to treat Americans differently because of their race, is becoming so… Read More
InternationalCommentary
TALLINN, Estonia—Conservatives seldom have been great at forging international coalitions. But that is changing rapidly. A common enemy always does that. Failure to form global… Read More
InternationalCommentary
The persecution of Christians has been a common occurrence across much of the Middle East and China, but an equally virulent persecution is taking place… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Wait until Americans with origins in Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua, and other lands demolished by communism find out that their favorite conservative radio stations are being… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The Biden administration is doubling down on the color-conscious policies that were the hallmark of its first year in office through a series of “action… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Black Lives Matter benefits from a vicious cycle that allows the organization to carry on changing America beyond recognition. Large media companies like The New… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Leftists have been scratching their heads and rubbing their eyes in disbelief as poll after poll tell them that Latino voters are starting to tack… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Cancel culture is sometimes mistaken as the central problem in the life of the West. This happens, I have noticed, more among our U.K. cousins… Read More
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Under questioning from Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, at her Supreme Court hearing, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson ran away from critical race theory as fast as… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
If you’re a woke journalist, how would you frame allegations of financial misconduct against the main Black Lives Matter organization? You could ignore these financial… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Last year, we witnessed an unprecedented revolt by parents and other Americans against the left’s attempt to insert race-based indoctrination into classrooms and all aspects… Read More
LawCommentary
Grim news confronts Americans in the closing days of 2021: as they prepare to gather with loved ones around the Christmas tree, their fellow citizens… Read More
LawCommentary
Why did Attorney General Merrick Garland form a law enforcement task force and threaten to use the FBI and several other divisions of the Department… Read More
EducationCommentary
Critical race theory proponents have just learned the hard way the folly of their strategy. The American people reject the politicization of the classroom, the… Read More
