Profiles
Headlines and Bylines
Book Reviews
- “The Sins of the Educated Class,” 6 June 2024.
Interviews
- “How the Mideast War Has Shaken America’s Cultural Institutions,” 14 November 2024.
- “Should a ‘Diverse’ Campus Mean More Conservatives?” 14 September 2024.
- “The Death Knell for Higher Education in Florida,” 8 March 2023.
- “Why Millions Think It Is Trump Who Cannot Tell a Lie,” 19 January 2022.
- “Is America Ungovernable Now?“ 20 January 2021.
- “Can Democrats Follow #MeToo to Victory?” 18 January 2018
Original Essays
- “About That Blue Wave…” 7 March 2018.
Mentions
- “Why We Got It So Wrong,” 14 November 2024.
- “How Resilient is the Emerging Trump Coalition?” 13 November 2024.
- “D.E.I. Is Not Working on College Campuses. We Need a New Approach,” 30 August 2024.
- “Civil Discourse on Campus is Put to the Test,” 7 March 2024.
- “Why Journalists Have More Freedom Than Professors,” 5 May 2023.
- “How the Right Turned Radical and the Left Became Depressed,” 29 March 2023.
- “Louisiana ‘a Failed State,” 8 March 2018.
- “Donald Trump’s Political Stew,” 9 March 2017.
Book Reviews
- “Finally, a Fresh Argument Against ‘Wokeness’,” 14 October 2024.
Interviews
- “The World Could Use More Jerks,” 12 December 2023.
Original Essays
- “Trump’s Proposal to Enforce Campus Speech Will Only Hurt Conservatives,” 5 March 2019.
- “If the Midterms Were a Referendum, Trump Won,” 9 November 2018.
Mentions
- “Why the Resistance Went Quiet After Trump’s Victory,” 25 November 2024.
- “The ‘Emerging Democratic Majority’ is no longer emerging. Now what?” 21 November 2024.
- “Democrats Can’t Blame Anyone But Themselves This Time,” 6 November 2024.
- “Not All ‘Anti-Racist’ Ideas Are Good Ones. The Left Isn’t Being Honest About This,” 24 February 2021.
- “If We Want to Win at the Future, We Shouldn’t Focus on Trump,” 6 November 2020.
- “What Connects Trumpish Figures Around the World? The Internet is the Best Answer,” 31 December 2018.
- “How a Blind Reverence for Science Obscures Real Problems,” 29 January 2019.
- “The Decline of the Black Republican,” 2 September 2016.
Book Reviews
- “A Symbolic Ideology,” 15 October 2024.
- “Who Read What in 2024: Political Voices,” 6 December 2024.
Interviews
- “The Unfinished Business of Office Diversity Training,” 20 December 2020.
Mentions
- “Do Scientists Regret Not Sticking to the Science?” 30 March 2023.
- “Free Speech Aside,” 5 May 2015.
Interviews
Interviews
- “Why is America Becoming Less Woke?” 27 September 2024.
Mentions
- “Are American Progressives Making Themselves Sad?” 4 April 2024.
Interviews
- “Rolling Your Eyes Is a Microaggression, Civil Servants Told,” 31 January 2024.
Mentions
- “Democrats Get Ready to Ditch the Progressives,” 28 December 2023.
- “A Rough Ride Ahead with Trump as Default Driver,” 5 November 2017.
Interviews
- “Why Sociologist Musa al-Gharbi Says Social Justice Elites Value Performance Over Progress” (On Point), 10 December 2024.
- “How Did President Trump Appeal to Voters of Color?” (Morning Edition), 5 November 2020.
Interviews
- “Experts Mull Options for Dealing With I.S.” 11 December 2015.
- “What’s In a Name? Debating the Islamic State Moniker(s),” 4 October 2014.
Mentions
- “Scientific Censorship Could Be Driven By Scientists Themselves,” 13 December 2023.
Interviews
- “Why the Rules for Racial Rhetoric Are Changing,” 29 June 2018.
Original Essays
- “Trump has a Very Potent Argument to Make Against Nikki Haley,” 15 December 2023.
- “It’s Incredibly Obvious What Voters Want. Republicans – and Democrats – Won’t Listen,” 26 September 2023.
Original Essays
- “Trump’s Delusion About White Supremacists Like Nick Fuentes,” 30 November 2022.
- “What the Reactions to Clarence Thomas Post-Roe Reveal About White Liberals,” 1 July 2022.
- “Biden Defeated Trump, But Democrats Didn’t Win a Large Mandate. They Ignore That at Their Peril,” 13 November 2020.
- “The Trump Vote is Rising Among Blacks and Hispanics, Despite the Conventional Wisdom,” 2 November 2020.
- “Trump Voters Haven’t Been Driven by Racism. If Anything, It Has Repelled Them,” 6 August 2020.
Interviews
- “In a World Full of African American Democrats, Black Republicans Stand Alone,” 6 February 2020.
Book Reviews
- “Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?” 16 November 2024.
Interviews
- “How to Escape ‘the Worst Possible Timeline,’“ 27 June 2023.
Original Essays
- “Police Punish the Good Apples,” 1 July 2020.
- “It’s Disadvantaged Groups That Suffer Most When Free Speech is Curtailed on Campus,” 8 July 2017.
Mentions
- “How Liberal America Came to Its Senses,” 19 December 2024.
- “The Emerging Bipartisan Wokeness.” 23 July 2024.
Interviews
- “Have the Democrats Become the Party of the Élites?” 14 December 2024.
Original Essays
- “How to Torpedo U.S. Credibility,” 9 May 2018.
Mentions
- “How Trump Wins Reelection,” 26 February 2018.
Interviews
- “Musa al-Gharbi’s Dire Diagnosis for the Woke Elite,” 22 November 2024.
Mentions
- “Sectarianism Has Returned to England,” 11 March 2024.
Original Essays
- “We Must Not Let the Truth Become a Casualty of This War,” 16 October 2023.
- “Democrats No Longer Have a Coalition,” 23 November 2020.
Interviews
- “Does Being Woke Do Any Good?” 9 November 2024.
Book Reviews
- “Cosplaying Social Justice is the New Elitist Way of Elbowing Out the Working Class,” 10 November 2024.
Original Essays
- “Why Donald Trump Won’t Make Major Inroads With Black Voters.” 8 August 2024.
- “Democrats Are Certain to Lose Seats in the Midterms. But How Many – and Why?” 12 July 2022.
- “Use of ‘Sexist’ and ‘Racist’ in the New York Times Increased Over 400% Since 2012. Why?” 26 February 2022.
- Why Don’t Some People Want to Get the Vaccine? Here’s Why,” 15 February 2022.
- “No, America is Not on the Brink of a Civil War,” 27 January 2022.
- “White Men Swung to Biden. Trump Made Gains with Black and Latino Voters. Why?” 14 November 2020.
Book Review
- “Curl Up With the Best Books We Read This Year,” 13 December 2024.
Original Essays
- “Brutal Force,” 18 June 2020.
- “Disposable People,” 1 April 2020.
- “Dealbreaker,” 10 May 2018.
- “Is Trump the New Clinton?” 6 March 2018.
Original Essays
- “Cable News Profits From Its Obsession with Trump. Viewers Are the Only Victims,” 8 September 2020.
- “The New York Times’ Obsession with Trump, Quantified,” 13 November 2019.
Interviews
- “Does Diversity Training Work?” 9 September 2024.
- “Everyone is Talking About ‘Belonging,’ But What Does It Mean?” 13 February 2023.
- “Another Year, Another Controversy Over Penn’s Grenade-Throwing Legal Scholar. How Will This One Play Out?“ 24 July 2019.
Original Essays
- “Universities Have Never Been Woke,” 4 September 2024.
- “Science Has a Censorship Problem,” 20 November 2023.
- “Universities Run on Disposable Scholars,” 1 May 2020.
- “Too Noxious for Tenure?” 1 August 2019.
Mentions
- “Stop Treating Students Like Babies,” 8 November 2024.
- “How ‘Diversity’ Became the Master Concept Of Our Age,” 7 May 2024.
- “Lies About the Humanities and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them,” 7 December 2018.
Interviews
- “The Capitol Riots: A Failure to Educate,” 8 January 2021.
- “No Work, No Rent,“ 28 April 2020.
- “A Very Controversial Idea,” 13 November 2018.
- “Beyond the Numbers on Gender and Research,” 10 October 2018.
- “In Defense of Viewpoint Diversity,” 8 October 2018.
Original Essays
- “Measuring Censorship Is Hard, and Stopping It May Be Harder,” 5 December 2023.
- “Education as Privilege Laundering,” 10 July 2023.
- “Heterodox Academy Isn’t Perfect — but You (Yes, You!) Can Help Improve It,” 14 February 2021.
- “Academic and Political Elitism,” 26 August 2019.
Mentions
- “What’s Next for DEI?” 13 November 2024.
Interviews
- “Will Trump-lit Affect the U.S. Election?” 24, October, 2024.
- “Do University Ban on Terms Like ‘Field Work’ Go Too Far?” 26 January 2023.
Original Essays
- “If You’re Worried About Censorship, Blame ‘Adults These Days,’” 4 January 2024.
- “If Conservative Views Are Not Represented in Social Research, Leftists Will Suffer Most,” 29 March 2018.
- “A Lack of Ideological Diversity Is Killing Social Research,” 27 April 2017.
Interviews
- “How Woke Elites Became Out of Touch,” 30 October 2024.
- “Portland State University Says Hoax ‘Grievance Studies’ Experiment Violated Research Ethics,” 7 January 2019.
Original Essays
- “Free Speech Advocates Are Often Hypocrites. This Doesn’t Make the Cause Less Important,” 20 November 2023.
- “First World Problems,” 20 February 2022.
Mentions
- “Republican Voters Got More Socially Liberal Under Trump,” 1 October 2024.
- “Universities Use DEI Statements To Enforce Groupthink,” 6 January 2024.
- “College Isn’t Higher Education and May No Longer Be the Best Way to Deliver the Goods,” 26 September 2017.
Mentions
- “What Our Pollies Plan to Read Over the Summer Holiday,” 17 December 2024.
- “Your Country Needs YOU! A Case for Hard Patriotism,” 14 December 2024.
- “Labor Ignores the Lessons of History at Its Peril,” 23 November 2024.
- “Has Cancel Culture Finally Moved Beyond ‘Peak Woke’?” 11 August 2023.
- “What’s to Like as Angertainment Rules the Newsfeed,” 28 October 2022.
- “Since Davos, Only the Climate Remains Unchanged,” 27 December 2016.
Interviews
- “In Their Rush to Save the World, Woke Celebrities Actually Cause More Problems Than They Solve.” 3 October 2024.
Mentions
- “Even After a Trump Trouncing, the Democrats Refuse to Learn Lessons,” 23 November 2024.
- “Why Dems Alienate Working Class, Sandra Day O’Connor, RIP and Other Commentary.” 4 December 2023.
- “The Real Cruelty of Biden’s Open Border Policy — It Hurts Low-Income Americans.” 10 August 2022.
- “Bernie’s Moment Has Come and Gone and Other Commentary.” 20 February 2019.
Book Reviews
- “Musa al-Gharbi Accounts for What Went Wrong that Made Liberals Woke,” 3 October 2024.
Mentions
- “Life is Hard, But It’s Harder If You’re Stupefied,” 8 November 2024.
- “Diversity Training Is Making Things Worse,” 19 April 2021.
- “Exit Polls Show Trump Making Huge Inroads with Hispanic Voters,” 4 November 2020.
Original Essays
- “Our Research Shows the ‘Great Awokening’ Preceded Trump—and Outlasted Him,” 7 September 2021.
- “Shifting Demographics Won’t Save a Democratic Party in Crisis,” 5 March 2017.
- “Dueling Foreign Policies: Why Candidates Talk Tough and Keep It Simple,” 22 July 2015.
Mentions
Book Reviews
- “Your Awokening Isn’t Special,” 10 October 2024.
Interviews
- “Democrats Must Stop Shaming Voters,” 12 November 2024.
Original Essays
- “Is the Kamala Honeymoon Over?” 8 August 2024.
Book Reviews
- “Waking Up From Woke,” 24 October 2024.
Interviews
- “Learning to Argue With Yourself…“ 19 June 2018.
- “A Social Scientist on the Liberal-Left Biases of Social Scientists,” 2 May 2018.
Original Essays
- “Ideological Discrimination in Academia Is More Complicated than You Think,” 9 September 2019.
Mentions
- “The Obama Coalition in Twilight,” 24 November 2020.
Book Reviews
- “Who the Woke Are,” 25 October 2024.
Mentions
- “The Debunker, Debunked,” 18 September 2023.
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