WPATH (World Professional Association for Transgender Health) produces standards of care that are considered the gold standard for transgender care. Colleges, universities, the media, and even churches adopted WPATH’s approach, whether or not they realized where it came from. Recent revelations have shown that not all that glitters is gold. More than 100 pages of...
It’s no secret that libraries — public, academic, special, and school — have taken a sharp left turn in recent years. As more and more young people have graduated with degrees in library science, the profession has taken on a far more radical, activist turn than ever before. This is hardly surprising, given that colleges...
About a quarter of a century ago, I read Whittaker Chamber’s magisterial “Witness,” his cri de coeur execration against “Godless” communism. As a young man, Chambers had embraced communism and even wrote for the Marxist-cum socialist Daily Worker. Over time, however, he came to realize that in this war of ideas, one side embraced God...
La película contra la trata de personas Sound of Freedom termina con una declaración que dice a los espectadores que la trata de personas es una empresa de $150 mil millones de dólares (es decir, con b) y que más de 40 millones de personas están esclavizadas en todo el mundo. Esta última cifra es...
The anti-human-trafficking film Sound of Freedom ends with a statement telling viewers that human trafficking is a $150 billion (that’s with a b) enterprise and that more than 40 million individuals are enslaved worldwide. That latter figure is more than the population of Canada and a dozen other countries. This led me to wonder how...
If you’ve kept up with the news at all, you have doubtless run across a note about the South Carolina State Library (which serves the libraries statewide) severing ties with the American Library Association (ALA). (Full disclosure: I was appointed to the SC Library Board in 2020, but I do not speak for the board,...
Hace casi tres siglos, Benjamin Franklin abrió la primera biblioteca pública estadounidense en Filadelfia. Aunque no es la primera biblioteca del mundo (ese honor corresponde a una establecida en el año 668 B.C., más o menos), las bibliotecas han apoyado a sus usuarios manteniendo los estándares de la comunidad. A la vanguardia de ese movimiento...
Nearly three centuries ago, Benjamin Franklin began the first American public library in Philadelphia. Although not the first library in the world (that honor goes to one established in 668 B.C., or thereabouts), libraries have supported their patrons by upholding community standards. At the vanguard of that movement was the American Library Association (ALA), formed...
What I know about sports of any kind would fill a thimble with ample room left for your finger. But I have been around football long enough (every male in my family played at some level) to know what the two-minute warning is. For those who may be head-scratching, the two-minute warning is a signal...
About a month ago, The Atlantic, now a very left-leaning magazine, published a piece by Xochitl Gonzalez titled, “The Librarians Are Not Okay.” The piece, a screed really, was featured in “One Story to Read,” a newsletter that the left-leaning editors there recommend as a “must-read” from The Atlantic. Now, granted, I have written in...
If nothing else, the headline surely caught your eye. What is surely to disappoint is its meaning. Here is perhaps one of the longest words in the English language and possibly one of the hardest to pronounce. And yet it’s meaning is onomatopoeic. The word refers to participating in an act or habit that is worthless. ...
Most of us are, of course, more familiar with the thin blue line — law enforcement that protects us from one another, and even from ourselves. Politically, however, during the recent elections, many conservatives were hopeful for a thick red line to save us from ideological miscreants in Congress. The end result proved not more...