Profiles
Select Headlines and Bylines
Book Reviews
- “The Sins of the Educated Class,” 6 June 2024.
Interviews
- “Democrats Have to Be More Than the Anti-Trump Party,” 27 January 2026.
- “Harvard Students Seek ‘Viewpoint Diversity’ Outside the School’s Gates,” 3 June 2025.
- “How Corporate America is Retreating from D.E.I.,” 12 March 2025.
- “Alarmed, Employers Ask: What Is ‘Illegal D.E.I.’?” 10 February 2025.
- “The Right is Winning the Battle for Hearts and Minds,” 21 January 2025.
- “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
- “What If Trump’s Gains With Minorities Weren’t About Trump At All?” 4 July 2025.
- “The World Could Use More Jerks,” 12 December 2023.
Original Essays
- “Trump’s War on Universities Will Not End Well,” 16 April 2025.
- “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.
Original Essays
- “All the Videos in the World Won’t End the Argument Over Renee Good’s Death,” 11 January 2026.
- “Democrats’ Wins May Not Mean What They Seem,” 26 November 2025.
Mentions
- “Being a Progressive Activist Made Me Miserable,” 11 June 2025.
- “A Lot of Trump Voters Saw More Light Than Darkness In His Message,” 14 November 2024.
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
- “The Woke Revolution and the Populist Backlash,” 25 September 2025.
- “Do Scientists Regret Not Sticking to the Science?” 30 March 2023.
- “Free Speech Aside,” 5 May 2015.
Interviews
- “Woke is Over. Is Antiwoke About to Go the Same Way?” 9 March 2025.
Mentions
- “The Successes and Excesses of Political Correctness.” 10 October 2019.
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
- “Why Privileged Young New Yorkers Love Socialism — And Zohran Mamdani,” 23 October 2025.
- “Champagne and a Helpful Cleric Showed Me a New Side to Weddings,” 29 June 2025.
- “Hostile Activists Never Learnt Art of Persuasion,” 16 February 2024.
- “Democrats Get Ready to Ditch the Progressives,” 28 December 2023.
- “A Rough Ride Ahead with Trump as Default Driver,” 5 November 2017.
Interviews
- “A Professor’s Thoughts on Reforming DEI” (The Metro), 15 April 2025.
- “Author Argues Social Justice Efforts Are Often Performative” (Here & Now), 22 January 2025.
- “Social Justice, Inequality and the 2024 Elections” (Campbell Conversations), 21 December 2024.
- “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.
Book Reviews
- “Is Wokeness One Big Power Grab?” 16 November 2024.
Interviews
- “The Era of DEI for Conservatives Has Begun,” 27 May 2025.
- “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
- “How DEI Cleaves American Politics,” 1 February 2025.
- “Sectarianism Has Returned to England,” 11 March 2024.
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.
Interviews
- “A Year After Trump Executive Order, How Businesses Are Rebranding Away From DEI,” 20 February 2026.
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.
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.
Interviews
- “Move Over, Gender Studies: The Conservative Tide Coming for US Universities,” 31 October 2025.
Original Essays
- “Will the Public Side With the Protestors in LA? Here Are Some Lessons from History,” 17 June 2025.
- “Don’t Just Blame Trump — Democrats Paved the Way for This Campus Crackdown,” 26 March 2025.
- “Many Are Likely Overestimating Donald Trump’s 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 Reviews
- “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.
Book Reviews
- “Politics of the Woking Class,” 2 February 2025.
Mentions
- “Democrats Still Don’t Get Why Trump Won,” 6 March 2025.
- “Liberals Are Giving Up on America,” 15 November 2024.
Interviews
- “What Would It Mean to Be ‘Woke?’” 14 January 2025.
Original Essays
- “Kamala Harris and the Rest of Us Will Regret Portraying Civil Rights as a National Security Issue,” 20 February 2019.
- “Trump Will Likely Win a Second Term,” 17 May 2017.
- “The Democratic Party is Facing a Demographic Crisis,” 3 March 2017.
- “Donald Trump Has an Easier Path to the Presidency Than You Think,” 29 May 2016.
- “Hillary’s Atrocious Race Record,” 3 April 2016.
- “How Entrepreneurship Favors the Wealthy,” 20 March 2016.
- “Ammon Bundy is Not a Terrorist,” 9 January 2016.
- “The Pope Rebukes the GOP,” 7 October 2015.
- “Don’t Say ‘Black Lives Matter.’ Prove It,” 2 October 2015.
- “White People Aren’t the Enemy,” 25 August 2015.
- “Who is Whitewashing History?” 16 July 2015.
- “Dylan Roof’s Extremism Was Not an Aberration,” 25 June 2015.
- “The Shocking Real Numbers on Race, Policing and Overuse of Force,” 10 June 2015.
- “Police Reform is More Important Than You Think,” 1 June 2015.
- “Pamela Gellar is No Rosa Parks,” 11 May 2015.
- “There is No Social Change Without Coercion,” 2 May 2015.
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
- “The Conservative Hiring Boom,” 3 February 2026.
- “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
- “Science Has a Censorship Problem,” 20 November 2023.
- “Universities Run on Disposable Scholars,” 1 May 2020.
- “Too Noxious for Tenure?” 1 August 2019.
Mentions
- “Four Scholars Agree, Disagree, and Agree to Disagree on Viewpoint Diversity,” 16 January 2026.
- “They Have a Common Criticism of Higher Ed. And They’re Arguing,” 5 August 2025.
- “The Dying Liberal University,” 29 May 2025.
- “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 Battle for ‘Viewpoint Diversity,’” 2 September 2025.
- “Can Universities Still Diversify Faculty Hiring Under Trump?” 17 April 2025.
- “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
- “Are Anti-‘Woke’ Academics Enjoying Donald Trump’s Presidency?” 19 June 2025.
- “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
- “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
- “Are Progressive Elites Hypocrites?” 7 July 2025.
- “Is Wokeness Social Justice for the Comfortable?” 5 March 2025.
Mentions
- “The Problem of Comfortable Christians in an Age of Protest,” 11 June 2020.
Interviews
- “No More Woke,” 30 March 2025.
- “Woke,” 14 December 2024.
- “The Trump Movement is Becoming More Diverse,” 5 November 2020.
Original Essays
- “US Conservatives: Beware Donald Trump’s Homonationalism,” 22 September 2016.
- “Drone Warfare is Self-Defeating,” 27 October 2015.
- “America’s Biggest Terror Threat is From the Far Right,” 10 July 2015.
- “The Secret of ISIL’s Appeal,” 17 June 2015.
- “Iran’s Nuclear Threat is a Myth,” 1 May 2015.
- “Netanyahu’s Politics of Fear Has Worked,” 23 March 2015.
- “ISIL’s Barbaric Acts Are Highly Successful Propaganda,” 23 February 2015.
- “Israel and Palestinians Need a One-State Solution,” 6 January 2015.
- “Does the Senate Report on CIA Torture Even Matter?” 11 December 2014.
- “Obama Must Abandon Failed Policies in Syria and Ukraine,” 13 November 2014.
- “Mexican Drug Cartels Are Worse Than ISIL,” 20 October 2014.
- “By Hyping ISIL Threat, US is Falling Into Group’s Trap,” 30 September 2014.
- “To Fight the Islamic State, End the War in Syria,” 4 September 2014.
- “The Myth and Reality of Sectarianism in Iraq,” 18 August 2014.
- “Israel, Not Hamas, Orchestrated the Latest Conflict in Gaza,” 22 July 2014.
- “Gaza Negotiations Plagued By Bad-Faith Actors,” 17 July 2014.
- “Collapse of the Syrian Opposition: Disaster or Opportunity?” 28 February 2014.
- “Petraeus Must Be Prosecuted,” 14 January 2014.
- “The Ill-Considered Debate About Drones,” 3 December 2013.
Mentions
- “Sunnis and Shias: Between Engagement and Disconnection,” 1 April 2014.
Book Reviews
- “Who Is Woke Again? The World’s Fight Against Contradiction,” 12 March 2025.
Mentions
- “Is Trump Winning the War on Woke? A Preliminary Audit,” 25 October 2025.
- “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
- “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.
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
- “If Leftist Identity Politics Are Dying, Conservatives Should Act Like It,” 3 January 2025.
- “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.
Mentions
- “Woke 2.0 is Here,” 2 February 2026.
- “What Young Republicans Are Telling Us: Racial Language Policing Has Failed,” 23 October 2025.
- “Kehinde Andrews’s Attack on Academic Language Is Too Late,” 2 June 2025.
- “Was It Whiteness That Won It For Trump?” 5 October 2017.
Book Reviews
Interviews
- “Ep. 255: We Have Never Been Woke,” 19 October 2024.
Original Essays
- “Race, Gender and Trump: Everything You Think You Know is Wrong,” 8 June 2018.
- “In Social Research Fields, Conservatives Are the Most Underrepresented Group,” 5 April 2018.
Mentions
- “How Cancel Culture and Sensitivity Readers Are Shaping the Publishing Industry and Silencing Dissent,” 22 August 2025.
- “The Pseudoscience of Critical Race Theory,” 9 July 2023.
- “Almost Four Decades After Its Birth, The Diversity Industry Thrives on Its Own Failures,” 12 July 2021.
- “Persuasion and the Prestige Paradox: Are High Status People More Likely to Lie?” 3 April 2021.
- “Jung and the Trumpian Shadow,” 2 October 2017.
Interviews
- “Colleges Must Answer ‘Why’ — or Die,” 23 March 2025.
- “Who Is to Blame for Wokeness?” 8 October 2024.
Original Essays
- “Behind Kamala’s Policy Evasions,” 24 September 2024.
- “Behind the Ivy Intifada,” 9 May 2024.
- “How the Clinton’s Changed America — Twice,” 3 April 2024.
- “The Democrat’s Knowledge Economy Bust,” 6 March 2024.
- “Israel’s Brutal, Futile War,” 4 January 2024.
- “Ted Kaczynski: Anti-Left Leftist,” 16 June 2023.
- “Woke-ism Is Winding Down,” 8 February 2023.
Mentions
- “Was Marx Woke?” 19 September 2024.
- “Woke Is Dying—Long Live the New Center,” 11 October 2023.
Original Essays
- “Trump’s Victory Should Not Have Been Surprising,” 15 November 2016.
- “The One-State Solution,” 7 August 2014.
- “Can Libya Stay Together?” 8 April 2014.
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.
Original Essays
- “Social Science Fails to Prove Racists Elected Trump,” 7 May 2018.
- “Racial Profiling is a Bad Counterterrorism Strategy,” 21 September 2016.
- “What Trump Gets Right (and Wrong) About Muslims,” 14 July 2016.
- “Why Aren’t There More Black Republicans?” 18 January 2016.
- “How America Failed Afghan Women,” 13 August 2015.
Mentions
- “Trump Visits the Bronx,” 16 June 2024.
- “Revolution from the Middle,” 6 November 2020.
- “Bo-Bolsheviks & Soft Totalitarianism,” 19 May 2020.
- “Hate Crimes & Hate Misdemeanors,” 18 May 2020.
- “The Subtle Tyranny of the ‘Expert’ Class,” 11 May 2020.
- “In the Coming Crisis, Bad Bureaucrats Will be the First to Go,” 13 January 2020.
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