The Anti-Defamation League’s (ADL) accounting of extremist killings in 2017 is out. Surprisingly, they included good news in their key findings: extremist killing are down from 2016 (due to the abnormally high numbers produced by […]
I was asked to write a short article on how I became a transgender Republican. I was ready, willing, and able to respond. People in the Republican Party have supported me no matter what. They […]
When I was doing a doctorate in Islamic history at Ohio State University back in the 1990s, the study of the world’s second-largest religion and the civilization it spawned was still mostly an academic exercise, […]
I am a flamboyant, freethinking, tattooed, makeup-loving, kaleidoscope haired, licensed cosmetologist. (If you haven’t figured it out yet, I am gay. Surprise!) But these are not the features that make me most interesting or garner […]
In aristocratic households during the baroque period it was fashionable to have a menagerie of tumblers, dwarves, and Negro pages. They were curiosities; acquired, occasionally remarked upon, and then ignored. The same cycle appears to […]
Every week, there’s a new hot story in the farming and agriculture community concerning hardcore animal rights activists (what we call ARAs) and vegan activists. Maybe they stormed the local restaurant with signs and megaphones […]