Category Archives: Political Correctness

A Conspicuous Achievement of American Broadcasting

Posted on December 31, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

Speaking as one who reached a major milestone earlier this year – passing 60 – I was among the generation that grew up initially with only a handful of television channels. The primetime pickings way back then were rather slim, … Continue reading →

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Underscoring a Fact about Royalty

Posted on March 16, 2021 by Jim Langcuster

Meghan Markle’s alleged exposure of racism in the Royal Family has predictably led royal watchers back to a perennial argument that the family possesses a trace of African ancestry through  Queen Sophia Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Yet, why should this be … Continue reading →

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Would Nazism Ultimately Have Devoured Itself?

Posted on March 8, 2018 by Jim Langcuster

I just finished Laurence Rees’ new book on the Holocaust last week. He stresses early in the book how the Nuremburg Laws, an utter catastrophe for Jews, also portended an unusually regimented social order for so-called “Aryan” Germans. Rees raises … Continue reading →

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The Banners of Freedom and Eccentricity: Long May They Wave!

Posted on September 25, 2017 by Jim Langcuster

Regarding this recent dustup over President Trump’s call to fire NFL players who refuse to salute the flag, I find myself agreeing with a guy named John Gabriel, editor of the center-right site known as Ricochet.com. Gabriel points out – … Continue reading →

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Southern Academia’s Palpable Confederate Legacy

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Jim Langcuster

Aside from being Orwellian, the effort under way at many of the South’s premiere universities to expunge their Confederate past strikes me as, well, a bit Kafkaesque, if not a little tragicomedic. For better or worse, the Confederacy has left … Continue reading →

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Intolerance, Implacable Intolerance

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Jim Langcuster

One of my oldest and closest friends, an old college fraternity brother, wrote me this morning to bemoan how intolerant liberalism has become. He reflected on how much had changed in America in the almost two generations since college – … Continue reading →

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