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Pete Hegseth

How the Irish became White. Or why Pete Hegseth likes St. Patrick Day and not Black History Month

John Fea   |  March 17, 2025

Over the San Antonio Express-News, Sig Christensen asks why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth put an end to Black History Month and other celebrations of identity in the military, but gave a pass to St. Patrick’s Day. It’s a fair question. […]

David French: “Trump’s cure for D.E.I. isn’t a true meritocracy, but rather affirmative action for the MAGA movement.”

John Fea   |  January 30, 2025

If you read this blog regularly, you know that I am often critical of some of the stuff associated with the “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” industry. (See, for example, recent Commonplace Book entries on Musa Al-Gharbi’s We Have Never Been […]

David Brooks: We live in a “soap opera” country. The Pete Hegseth confirmation hearing is proof.

John Fea   |  January 16, 2025

Here is The New York Times columnist: First let me hit you with some realities: Now, if you are holding hearings for a prospective secretary of defense, you would think you might want to ask him about these urgent issues. […]

Trump nominates a Fox News weekend host as Secretary of Defense

John Fea   |  November 13, 2024

Hegseth is not good enough to be a Fox & Friends weekday host, but he IS good enough to be Secretary of Defense. 😉 Hegseth is a graduate of Princeton University where he wrote for the Princeton Tory and averaged […]