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Fellow @ManhattanInst . Contributing Ed @CityJournal . NEW BOOK: “When Race Trumps Merit” @DailyWireBooks . Order: views mine

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Heather Mac Donald
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My new book, “When Race Trumps Merit,” is now available. In the book, I explain how the foolish pursuit of undermining meritocracy in favor of equal outcome is sacrificing excellence, destroying beauty, and threatening lives. @DailyWireBooks Order here:
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Two weeks ago, police officer Keona Holley was shot multiple times while sitting alone in her patrol car in southern Baltimore. She was removed from life support a week later and died, leaving behind four children. Where’s the outrage? My latest @nypost
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WATCH: Here’s a clip from my recent talk at @BerkeleyLaw , hosted by @berkeleyfedsoc with @stevenfhayward as moderator. Student heckling became boisterous, along with fervent declarations of how oppressive it is to be a black law student at Berkeley.
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It’s an odd way to seek national unity: call a significant portion of the American public white supremacists, racists, and nativists. Welcome to the Biden presidency. My latest @CityJournal
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Conservatives are missing the real scandal in the congressional testimony from the presidents of Harvard, Penn, and MIT. It isn’t their inability to condemn calls for genocide against Jews: it is their outrageous double standard on academic freedom and protected speech. Read…
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The officers who arrested George Floyd must be held accountable for their excessive use of force and callous indifference to his distress. But the charge of systemic police bias was wrong during the Obama years and it remains so today. My new @WSJopinion
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"The university should embrace a single colorblind definition of excellence." @CityJournal adapted my opening remarks from the recent MIT debate on academic DEI programs, which you can watch.
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My conversation with @TuckerCarlson last night on the destruction of learning by academic identity politics.
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Strong reaction to the Berkeley law student thread.  Here is a link to the full discussion, complete with repeated protestations of student victimhood:
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WATCH: Here’s a clip from my recent talk at @BerkeleyLaw , hosted by @berkeleyfedsoc with @stevenfhayward as moderator. Student heckling became boisterous, along with fervent declarations of how oppressive it is to be a black law student at Berkeley.
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Here's a clip from my remarks @UCBerkeley for a crime symposium hosted by @Heritage @BerkeleyLaw I addressed, in part, why the slight drop in violent crime last year is hardly worth celebrating. For that, I was likened to Goebbels and Hitler in my use of "factual propaganda."
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Few things are more enraging to students than the invocation of black privilege.
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Going on @TuckerCarlson again tonight to talk about the ongoing breakdown of law and order in the country. I hope you’ll watch!
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The post–George Floyd racial reckoning has hit the field of medicine like an earthquake. The result will be declining quality of medical care and a curtailment of scientific progress. My long piece from the latest issue of @CityJournal is up.
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Among Ivy League universities, 75% of presidents are now female. The Great Feminization of the American university is a change whose consequences have yet to be recognized. My latest @CityJournal
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Yale's president announced a major expansion of the school’s diversity bureaucracy this month. It's an invitation for endless student complaint and protest. My latest @WSJopinion .
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Watch: My interview with @TuckerCarlson last night on YouTube’s removal of a recent livestreamed lecture I gave. Apologies for the brief audio issue!
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The authors of a 2019 study on policing are disowning their research simply because I cited it. The only thing wrong with their article, and my citation of it, is that its conclusion is unacceptable in our current political climate. My latest @WSJopinion
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WATCH: Honored to have joined @TuckerCarlson tonight to discuss the descent into mob rule and the chaos we've seen in Chicago, Compton, and cities across the country.
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The Black Lives Matter movement trades on Americans’ ignorance about the demographics of criminal offending. As long as that ignorance prevails, BLM’s anti-cop narrative will continue destroying the institutions of law and order. My latest @theammind
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A police officer is 875 TIMES as likely to be killed on the job as an unarmed black is to be killed by a cop … and a cop is 375 TIMES as likely to be killed by a black suspect as an unarmed black is to be killed by police. @CityJournal @larryelder
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Berkeley law students claim they suffer through racism every single day, but they couldn't name a single racist professor or administrator. WATCH my conversation last night with @JesseBWatters @FoxNews
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. @larryelder is breaking the taboos about black crime in an effort to save black lives. My latest @CityJournal
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Thank you for reading!
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The resignation of @Harvard president Claudine Gay comes as I read the last page of @HMDatMI 's book. The takeaway from both, DEI ideology is of massive failure. No one wins when race trumps merit. May 2024 be the year where DEI ideology officially DIES.
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Calling white Americans racist is not racially divisive; criticizing actual behavior like rioting or drive-by shootings is. Get ready for more “unity” like this under @JoeBiden . My latest @Newsweek
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I’ll be on with @TuckerCarlson later tonight to discuss the Chauvin verdict.
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It has been almost 90 days since Gay Pride month, but that is too long a hiatus for LA Unified Schools.  A teacher forwarded me the district’s “toolkit” for teachers during “LGBTQ+ History” month, and the agenda is frightening. My latest @CityJournal
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Recent riots have made the current de facto rules of engagement clear: Cops may never defend themselves against lethal force if their attacker is a minority. They should accept being shot or stabbed as penance for their alleged racism. My latest @nypost
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Watch: My interview with @TuckerCarlson last night on troubling trends in American family life.
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Joining @TuckerCarlson tonight around 8:50pm ET. Hope you’ll tune in!
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President Trump’s order to end radical training in the federal bureaucracy is a good first step. Next up should be the millions of taxpayer dollars devoted annually to cultivating race- and sex-based grievance in the sciences. My latest @WSJopinion
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Heather Mac Donald
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My lecture earlier today at @MNThinkTank was deleted from YouTube after its conclusion. The video is re-uploaded and you can watch here while it's still up:
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I had already been declared a racist before arrival.
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My interview with @TuckerCarlson last night on Colin Kaepernick’s essay calling for abolishing police and prisons.
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Pro-Hamas protests have exposed anti-Western ideology as the prevailing belief system on college campuses. The question: whether disgruntled donors and alumni can overcome decades of intellectual misdirection. My latest @CityJournal
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The year 2020 likely saw the largest percentage increase in homicides in American history. Some claim the pandemic caused this bloodbath, but the chronology doesn’t support that assertion. And now we have the Biden policing agenda. My latest @WSJopinion
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Heather Mac Donald
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We should not lower academic standards to promote the charade of diversity. My conversation with @megynkelly @MegynKellyShow discussing the Supreme Court's recent rulings on affirmative action in college admissions and Justice Thomas' eloquent opinion.
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Nineteen children in Minneapolis have been shot this year, and their relatives wonder where the protesters are. But as lawless as the city has become, it is hardly atypical of many American cities after the George Floyd riots. My latest @WSJopinion
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If there’s a silver lining to the Covid-19 pandemic, it may be to expose as dangerous nonsense the practice of hiring researchers by sex and race rather than scientific accomplishments. My latest @WSJopinion
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Heather Mac Donald
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Honored to have joined @megynkelly on her show again. We talked about the idiocy of student protest, the bad faith of the left’s crime narrative, and the civilization-destroying consequences of our current race-based attack on merit.
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The Truth About The "Violent Crime is Lowest in 50 Years" Leftist Lie, with @HMDatMI . #megynkellyshow Watch & subscribe:
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By undercutting the legitimacy of law enforcement, we're putting thousands of black lives at risk. My interview with @TuckerCarlson last night on the Atlanta police shooting.
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Defund the NYPD? Vulnerable New Yorkers want more police presence, not less. The people who live in high-crime neighborhoods understand more about policing than the anti-cop agitators. My latest @CityJournal
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Until we relinquish the idea that policing activity against black criminals is racist, restoring law and order in our cities will be impossible. My latest on the disparate-impact conceit, in the autumn issue of @CityJournal
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Thanks for having me on, @benshapiro , to talk about my new book. Purchase your copy today:
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. @HMDatMI : “The media doesn’t give a damn about most black victims.” Heather Mac Donald joins @benshapiro to discuss her brand new book, "When Race Trumps Merit: How the Pursuit of Equity Sacrifices Excellence, Destroys Beauty, and Threatens Lives.”
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WATCH: I joined @TuckerCarlson tonight to discuss Tyre Nichols, the Memphis police officers, and changes to American policing since the George Floyd riots in 2020.
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San Francisco is a real-life experiment in what happens when a society stops enforcing bourgeois norms of behavior. My latest @WSJopinion on what I saw during my trip to the Bay Area. Full essay available this weekend @CityJournal .
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Joining @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews tonight. Hope you’ll tune in.
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WATCH: A snippet from my time at MIT this week, discussing "racism" at Google and other large institutions. Thanks to @mitfreespeech @smithsoc @NASorg for hosting me. The full debate: Debate preview:
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I’ll be joining @TuckerCarlson again near the top of the hour. Hope you’ll tune in!
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California is the triumph of identity politics, and it’s the future of this country if we’re not careful. My interview with @TuckerCarlson last night.
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Thanks @jordanbpeterson for having me on to discuss my new book, "When Race Trumps Merit," and why abandoning meritocracy for equity will hasten the decline of our society's institutions. Get your copy: WATCH:
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The outdoors mask is the most potent symbol of safetyism’s current grip over the American psyche, but wearing one in a wide-open space is how you show scientific illiteracy. My latest @SpectatorUSA
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Savagery is spreading with lightning speed across the United States, with murderous assaults on police officers and civilians. Welcome to a real civilization-destroying pandemic. My latest @CityJournal
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WATCH: My interview with @TuckerCarlson last Friday on how the Biden Administration's continued attack on excellence puts America's scientific edge at risk.
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Incredible. The re-uploaded video with @MNThinkTank now has even tighter restrictions. "Viewer discretion is advised." Link here:
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Watch: My interview with @TuckerCarlson last night on YouTube’s removal of a recent livestreamed lecture I gave. Apologies for the brief audio issue!
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Evidence of anti-Asian animus may yet emerge, but for now, there is nothing to support claims that the Atlanta attack was racially motivated. But that won't stop the all-powerful “white supremacy” narrative. My latest @Quillette
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WATCH: My conversation with @kilmeade on @TuckerCarlson 's show last night. "When you stop enforcing the law in order to avoid disparate impact, it's blacks who are hurt the most."
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College students in America today are among the most privileged individuals in human history. But if you tell them that, they’ll try to shout you down. My latest @WSJopinion :
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Last year, Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced that “existing while black” was another of those activities that put black lives at risk from racists. Apparently, white supremacists were running wild in Kansas City, gunning down blacks. See: On Race and Crime, a…
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WATCH: My conversation with @TuckerCarlson last night on the Derek Chauvin verdict.
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Dozens of black children killed in drive-by shootings since the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May 2020. The Democratic and media establishments have been virtually silent about it. My latest @CityJournal
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Grateful for the opportunity to speak with UNC's Board of Trustees earlier this month about affirmative action and how the university should respond to the Supreme Court's recent decision.  I rebutted the ubiquitous tautology that every student a college admits under racial…
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My latest: The military is watering down fitness standards because most female recruits can’t meet them. via @WSJopinion
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Recent coverage @nytimes of a police crackdown on Miami Beach was a preview of how it and the rest of the mainstream media will cover future riots: accuse the police of racism, ignore anarchic behavior. My latest @CityJournal
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President Trump was wrong to malign the criminal-justice system in the #SOTU last night. It is crime, not punishment of crime, that disproportionately harms the black community. @CityJournal
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WATCH: My conversation with @IngrahamAngle @FoxNews about @larryelder and the left's attempts to smear him as racist in his run for California governor.
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Thanks for having me on, @piersmorgan
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Conservative commentator Heather Mac Donald says she wouldn't want women serving in combat units: "If a spontaneous split second kiss... can traumatise women to that degree." @piersmorgan | @HMDatMI | @TalkTV | #PMU
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The narrative that blacks are at elevated risk for “existing while black” is true, but not because whites are killing them. Black assailants, however, are of no interest to race activists and their media and political allies. My latest @CityJournal
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An astronomy course at Cornell asks the question, “Is there a connection between the cosmos and the idea of racial blackness?” Anyone familiar with academia’s racial monomania knows the answer: of course there is! My latest @CityJournal
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WATCH: My conversation last night @TuckerCarlson about how the medical profession is discarding merit in order to alter the demographics of their field. @FoxNews
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My new book, “When Race Trumps Merit,” takes a hard look at how undermining meritocracy in favor of equal outcome is sacrificing excellence, destroying beauty, and threatening lives. @DailyWireBooks @ManhattanInst Pre-order for next week's release:
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Over 100 people were shot in Chicago last weekend. Five children were among those killed. But where's the outrage? Police are not the problem, criminals are. My interview with @ShannonBream @FoxNews @FoxNewsNight
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"Disparate impact" ideology is jeopardizing scientific progress, destroying public order, and poisoning the appreciation of art and culture. A snippet from my conversation with @BrianAcity @CityJournal @ManhattanInst
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Pleased to announce my next book "When Race Trumps Merit" is now available for pre-order, releasing on April 18. Published by @DailyWireBooks Pre-order your copy:
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Joined @TuckerCarlson last night to discuss my @NewsweekOpinion piece about Biden’s double standard on immigration and America’s “systemic” racism.
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Oakland’s DA promised to “decriminalize young people,” and she’s stayed true to that pledge. The city’s homicide count is up 80% over 2019. And a recent “antiracist” training shows she’s determined to divide people by race. My latest @WSJopinion
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If Americans do not repudiate our new ethic of fear, future Thanksgivings will be even bleaker than this year’s. My latest @SpectatorUSA
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WATCH: My conversation with @TuckerCarlson last night on the George Floyd police reform bill.
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Law-abiding citizens of high-crime communities don’t hate the police. In fact, it's quite the opposite. Check out my latest video with @prageru .
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NEW 5-Minute Video: Are the police friend or foe? Are they necessary to preserve order, or are they overly intrusive? Do they have society’s best interest in mind, or are they racist & violent? Heather Mac Donald ( @HMDatMI ) analyzes the numbers behind these hot-topic questions.
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My interview with @RealCandaceO is out today. We talked about some of the myths behind systemic racism, policing, and more. Watch here @prageru
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NEW EPISODE: Police have become the target of violent activists seeking to upend America as we know it. @HMDatMI , senior fellow @manhattaninst & author of The War on Cops, joins @realcandaceo to expose the myths behind systemic racism & police brutality.
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My interview with @TuckerCarlson on the National Guard in DC.
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President Biden has announced the most ambitious amnesty proposal in history. But why bring newcomers to a country defined by fatal and "systemic" bigotry? My latest @NewsweekOpinion
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New York City in 2020 experienced an unprecedented one-year increase in homicides and shootings. But the dominance of “antiracism” as the overriding policy concern will ensure the crime surge will continue. My latest @CityJournal
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"The most consequential falsehood in American public policy today is the idea that any racial disparity in any institution is by definition the result of racial discrimination." An adaptation of talk I gave for @Hillsdale , now published in @HCimprimis
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The movement to #DefundThePolice is extraordinarily reckless. There is no government agency more dedicated to the proposition that black lives matter than the police. My latest interview @FoxNews with @DanaPerino @dailybriefing
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My interview with @TuckerCarlson last night on the Biden-Harris criminal-justice plan. Expect a revival of the Obama-era practice of imposing mindless consent decrees on police departments and now prosecutor’s offices.
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If Trump wants to demolish the Democrats’ playbook, he should offer to switch federal funding from #thewall to E-Verify. Doing so would force @NancyPelosi and @SenSchumer to go on record opposing a legal workforce.
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Watch my interview with @TuckerCarlson last night and read my latest @WSJopinion
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We are turning on our own civilization's legacy and declaring it evil. The need for a corrective argument could not be more urgent. Check out my part in "American Requiem" @foxnation and watch it here:
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Going on @TuckerCarlson tonight after the first break to talk about the election and Biden-Harris plans for policing.
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Joining @TuckerCarlson @FoxNews tonight around 8:30pm ET to talk about family breakdown.
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Coverage of the alleged culture war demonstrates the Left’s most important power: the ability to set the default. The rejection of the trans default is a battle for cultural survival. My latest for @CityJournal
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The #MeToo movement has ended the U.S. career of legendary 78-year-old Spanish tenor Placido Domingo. His demise won’t placate the resentment brigades. My latest @Quillette
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I'll be on Mark Levin’s show @FoxNews on Sunday night. Hope you’ll tune in.
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Tune in this Sunday to catch my sit-down interview @marklevinshow , airing 10pm EST.
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I’ll be joining @TuckerCarlson shortly. Hope you’ll tune in!
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