Chivalry is one of the great civilizing forces, taming men and introducing social graces and nuance to what would otherwise be a brutish social world.
Heather Mac Donald
Without question, women can act with bravery, foresight, and tactical intelligence.
No one doubts that having a criminal record - whether it results in community probation or prison - is a serious handicap.
A strong police presence keeps individuals involved in 'street life' from triggering the most severe penalties of the law by providing a surrogate for the self-control and parental oversight that they lack.
Children with no father at home are between four and five times more likely to be poor as the children of married parents, whether they are black or white.
Strong women together create a special vibe and special power, we are told; thus the ongoing existence of all-female schools and clubs at a time when any remaining all-male organizations are in the crosshairs.
Biological fathers are of slight importance to the raising of children, after all, and the larger the welfare state, the more employment for crucial members of the Democratic base.
Marriage civilizes males by making them responsible for their children and by imposing on boys the need to develop the bourgeois habits of self-discipline and work that make them attractive mates.
Besides interrupting more serious criminal activity, intensive misdemeanor enforcement and proactive street stops send the message to criminals and law-abiding residents alike that the rule of law is still in effect in troubled neighborhoods and that the police are watching.
Ideally, informal social controls, above all the family, preserve public order. But when the family disintegrates, the police are the second-best solution for protecting the law-abiding.
I think a lot of people are clueless about the degree of hatred of whites.
A federal government with enough money to buy iPads for local gym teachers is not a federal government that has been cut to the bone.
If we grant immigrants moral agency, we assume that they are capable of abiding by the law, and that they are legally responsible when they do not.
It is, at the very least, ironic that we are requiring men to behave with more respect for female sensibilities at the same time that the combat gender-integrators are insisting that women on the frontlines will be and should be given no special consideration.
Trade protectionism has an American lineage dating back to the Founders; that lineage is distinct from white nationalism.
If, by deferring or maybe even skipping college entirely, students were foregoing their one hope for immersion in Western civilization, there would indeed be grounds for regret.
Unless you think hard about political questions in our culture, you are liberal by default. You have to think your way out of liberalism.
The open-borders Right regularly insists that immigrants and their children are assimilating at a brisk clip. It would be nice to see them advocating as well, then, an English-only practice in all government communications.
Well, identity politics is everywhere.
It has always been a sign of desperation that racial-preference supporters argue that the government can honor the constitutional mandate not to discriminate on the basis of race only by discriminating on the basis of race.
There is no reason to protect illegal-alien criminals from deportation. And cities that defy the law should face serious consequences.
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.
Before you can challenge a received narrative about the past, you should be expert in its established contours.
Mandatory stints in the private economy before college enrollment could do wonders for study skills.
A second parent in the home provides back-up support in discipline when the other is at the breaking point, and a doubling of the emotional, intellectual, and moral resources that a child can draw on.
The rising tide of single-parent households threatens American society.
The more frequently officers encounter violent suspects from any given racial group, the greater the chance that members of that racial group will be shot by a police officer.
Though you'd never know it from reading the academic literature, some people in minority communities even see prison as potentially positive for individuals as well as for communities.
Students regularly act out little psycho-dramas of oppression before an appreciative audience of diversity deanlets who use the occasion to expand their dominion.
Republican politicians regularly churn out earnest policy wonkery and programs in the hope of raising more black children out of poverty. Black uplift remains an obsessive concern of white Republican philanthropists.
Anyone who is willing for an instant to credit the claims of astral influence is a walking demonstration of the tragic failure of science education.
I don't have a fondness for movies, which leaves me stranded when it comes to cocktail party chat, but I prefer language and books.
There's an ideology that's taken hold of universities, that has taken hold of elite establishments, that is committed to the myth of endemic white racism.
But a married spouse at whatever income level is almost always going to improve the economy of a household over a lifetime, whether that spouse is adding the proceeds of a minimum-wage job or the inestimable value of being a stay-at-home parent while the other one works.
Well, the 80s was when it started in my view. That is when you got radical multiculturalism that hit.
The Democratic Party now is an extension of this poisonous identity politics on college campuses and to be honest, I can only hope it continues because American by and large are not buying it.
It is not the case that I can predict your views knowing that you are a white male. I cannot predict your views if you are a black female, and it is height of both arrogance and condescension to think that somebody can be type casted on the base of.
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.
I think that some part of society is worried that the racial achievement gap is not going to close. And so we've become obsessed with trying to find instances of racism to explain it.
A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.
I don't understand how people of intelligence can reconcile what I see as constant proof of divine indifference to human outcomes with a reverence for God. To me it's a mystery.
Proactive policing has saved tens of thousands of minority lives since the mid-1990s.
But in fact it makes a lot of sense to have a Blue Lives Matter movement because officers are putting their lives on the line every day.
Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.
The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of minority college students, it just redistributes them to schools for which they are actually qualified, rather than catapulting them into academic environments where they will inevitably struggle.
European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!
Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz and musical theater, which sent a previously undiscovered current coursing through the body, demanding outlet.
Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities.
The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.
The far Right's identity politics are the mirror image of that dominant left-wing ideology, which sees the world exclusively through the lens of race and sex.
