Matt Philbin
Managing Editor
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It’s almost possible to feel sorry for Lin-Manuel Miranda. He’s served the Revolution well. But like so many leftists before him, he may end up airbrushed from the proverbial official Kremlin photos. His sin: casting the wrong kind of Hispanics in his movie “In the Heights.” Miranda is a talented popularizer of identity politics. With “Hamilton,” he took the life of one of our Founding geniuses…
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Here's the feel-good story of the week: A New Zealand environmental group has collapsed under the weight of its own wokeness.  According to The Guardian, School Strike 4 Climate's Auckland chapter announced its formal dissolution in a Facebook post that sounded an awful lot like the transcript of a Maoist "struggle session." It had “avoided, ignored and tokenised BIPOC [Black, Indigenous and…
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Quick, somebody get Mara Gay to her fainting couch -- those Long Island rednecks are at it again. This time, they proudly sang The Star Spangled Banner at an NHL game (their Old Glory-festooned pick-ups were no doubt parked outside.)  Last Sunday, before same four of the Stanley Cup second round matchup between the NY Islanders and the Boston Bruins at Nassau Coliseum, singer Nicole Raviv ran…