Bill Donohue Every year the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) releases its annual survey results assessing free speech on college and university campuses. The “2026 College Free Speech Rankings” was recently published, and the results are not sanguine. Indeed, they are disturbing. The survey included 68,510 student respondents from 257 colleges and universities. The [...]
Bill Donohue We do not yet know the identity and the precise motive of the person who killed Charlie Kirk, but we do know who hates free speech, and that is what he championed. Charlie Kirk was a conservative icon, especially in the eyes of young people. That made him a threat to those who see [...]
Bill Donohue It is officially known as “The Cross at Ground Zero.” The 17-foot high column and cross-beam retrieved from the World Trade Center is included in the September 11 Memorial and Museum. Most Americans, regardless of what religion they belong to, or don’t belong to, are happy with this decision. The Christian cross symbolizes hope, [...]
Bill Donohue There was a time, not too long ago, when to call someone a socialist was to stigmatize him. No more. Most Democrats proudly admit they are now socialists. Even communism is making a comeback. Gallup released a survey on September 8 that found most Americans still view capitalism more favorably than socialism, but this [...]
Bill Donohue Trying to get accurate information about the LGBTQ Catholic participation in the Holy Year Jubilee can be frustrating. Misinformation and disinformation abound, but in the end the consensus was these disaffected Catholics did not get want they wanted—a big shout-out from the pope. It never happened. “Did Pope Leo welcome LGBTQ Catholics at Jubilee [...]
Bill Donohue The conventional wisdom holds that the prototypical racist is an uneducated white man who hates blacks. Such persons clearly exist, but this view is seriously outdated. The biggest enemy of non-whites these days are more likely to be those who publicly profess to be their friends. Why, after all the money spent on education [...]
Bill Donohue This article recently appeared in The American Spectator. President Trump’s criticism of the 1989 Supreme Court decision, Texas v. Johnson, that legalized burning the American flag, is deserving of great respect, notwithstanding some problems with it. Trump was right to say, “The people in this country don’t want to see our American flag burned [...]
Bill Donohue FBI Director Kash Patel got it right when he labeled the Minneapolis mass shooting as an act of domestic terrorism and an anti-Catholic hate crime. Did Robert Westman (who changed his name to Robin after he falsely identified himself as a woman) also hate others, besides Catholics? Yes, there were many demographic groups whom [...]
Bill Donohue New York Times reporter William J. Broad has a front-page story today depicting President Trump as anti-science, citing his affinity with the Catholic Church’s alleged anti-science pedigree. Last week, Trump fired the new director of the CDC, as well as other employees at the organization. This makes him “anti-science.” In 2021, under the Biden [...]
