Gilbert T. Sewall

The progressive elect comes to Brearley

4 November 2022 3:22 am

Brearley is an all-girls day school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side with a $150 million endowment and an unparalleled history…

Los Angeles will never be multicultural heaven

18 October 2022 1:22 pm

A secret hour-long recording of an October 2021 meeting of Los Angeles city politicos surfaced last week, as California’s midterm…

What our progressive overclass has wrought

13 October 2022 1:32 pm

Progressives at the zenith of privilege and power have steered US civil rights, education, and welfare policies almost exclusively for…

The end of history

6 September 2022 12:08 pm

Read chronicles of ancient peasant life, or examine photographs taken a century ago. Behold castes, tortures, and endless annals of…

Los Angeles is in freefall

28 August 2022 8:00 pm

On August 9, a crazy homeless woman riled by community activists stormed a Los Angeles city council meeting, shouting obscenities…

The War on Normal

2 August 2022 12:28 pm

The eagerly anticipated midterm elections, now in a countdown, will no doubt reveal vast electoral dismay and division. Inflation, recession,…

It’s time for Donald Trump to go

14 July 2022 12:35 pm

As the war on normal escalates, and a silent majority nationwide grows weary of blue-state chaos, GOP opportunities in the…

When cities accommodate lawlessness

17 April 2022 7:00 pm

A shoot-out in downtown Sacramento, California, at two in the morning on Sunday, April 3 left six people dead and…

Will the West Coast walk away from wokeness?

24 March 2022 1:05 pm

California’s June 7 primary election is heating up, fueled by broad voter distress over crime and public safety. Major contests…

The deep state is no conspiracy theory

20 January 2022 2:56 am

In 1958, Aldous Huxley foresaw a congestion of power able to shape and defy popular will. “Under the relentless thrust…

What Functional America wants

8 December 2021 2:56 pm

The United States is still rich enough to meet higher-order needs and call them entitlements. The decades-long response to race,…

The professor versus the progressive elect

22 November 2021 2:04 pm

In his timely new book Woke Racism, Columbia linguistics professor John McWhorter examines the force of an ascendant political religion…

Woke California bans boys and girls toy sections

14 October 2021 2:58 pm

Last week, signing a batch of pet bills to end the legislative session, Governor Gavin Newsom made California the first…

California is falling apart

13 September 2021 3:11 pm

After a month-long mail-in vote, the campaign to recall California governor Gavin Newsom is ending. If Newsom obtains a majority,…