Kelly Jane Torrance

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Original ArticlePosted By: 4250Luis, 5/7/2025 4:55:23 PMJason Riley makes his living by his pen - and wastes no ink or time mincing words. "There's a lot of intellectual cowardice going on in the country right now, and it's a product, I think, of the ascendance of progressivism," he tells The Post in an interview about his new book, "The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed." The book's title alone is sure to spur debate.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Kelly Jane Torrance

Author and Commentator Jason Riley in and interview about his upcoming book, "The Affirmative Action Myth: Why Blacks Don't Need Racial Preferences to Succeed." Tamara Beckwith Jason Riley makes his living by his pen — and wastes no ink or time in mincing words.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Kelly Jane Torrance

Self-described “contrarian” John McWhorter is used to being at the center of controversy. So it’s no surprise his new book, “Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words,” hits shelves as its subject makes constant, contentious headlines. But that’s not how he planned it. “I have a pattern, which is that often, if I write an angry book I want to write a fun language-nerd book afterwards, just to lighten things up,” the Columbia prof and podcaster tells The Post.

1 month ago | nypost.com | Kelly Jane Torrance

Fox News Channel correspondent Benjamin Hall lost half a leg, most of a foot, part of a hand and one eye’s sight in a Russian missile attack covering Ukraine’s war. But talking to The Post about his new book, “Resolute: How We Humans Keep Finding Ways to Beat the Toughest Odds,” he reveals, “I eventually found that the physical injuries” were “the easiest to comprehend and get over.”Going home and learning to live a new life was harder. “There were a number of things that I couldn’t do.

2 months ago | lucianne.com | Kelly Jane Torrance

Original Article Posted By: Imright, 3/10/2025 1:50:58 AM Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo defended his decision to accept an appointment on Columbia University's troubled campus - even as an anti-Israel protest raged blocks away Wednesday at Barnard College, ending in the arrest of students from the Ivy League school he admitted has "shortcomings" when it comes to keeping "order." Pompeo, who was CIA director in President Trump's first term before becoming top cabinet secretary (the...