Critical Issues Dividing the Parties and the Nation: Civil Rights

Few political phrases carry as much moral weight in American public life as civil rights. It is a term that evokes the nation’s highest ideals—liberty, equality before the law, and protection from unjust government power. Because of this moral weight, civil rights has become one of the most contested and misused concepts in modern political…

“Jim Crow” and Semantic Warfare of the Left

What is “Jim Crow” and why do leftist Democrats constantly use this phrase in semantic warfare? The phrase Jim Crow evokes one of the darkest and most oppressive chapters in American history. It refers not to a single law or policy but to a broad and pervasive system of legalized segregation, discrimination, and racial humiliation…