Plus: 1619 Project Stokes Racial Division, but Offers No Real Solutions
| Good morning from Washington, where the question of reopening schools this fall, and how, is as urgent as it likely is in your neck of the woods. Dr. Kevin Pham looks at relevant medical facts. Plus: the Supreme Court’s surprising ruling on Oklahoma and Indian land; parents should be wary of The New York Times’ 1619 Project; and the speech police have not been defunded. On this date in 1905, scholar W.E.B. Du Bois and 28 other African American scholars, lawyers, and businessmen meet on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls to found the Niagara Movement as an early civil rights group. Have a terrific weekend. | |
| Commentary | Here Come the Speech Police | | By David Harsanyi The recent assaults on the English language have consisted largely of euphemisms and pseudoscientific gibberish meant to obscure objective truths—“cisgender,” “heteronormativity,” and so on. | More |
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