The Frost Art Exhibit featuring the work of twelve artists occurred on Saturday as a part of Frost Music and Arts Festival. This year's theme was aptly named "Sacred Spaces," writes Annie C. Reller.
Tue Mar 9, 2021
Bruce Bawer is a Shillman Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center. Stand-up comedians used to have a simple rule: no subject is off-limits if the joke is funny. It was a good rule, and it made for some great comedy. The rise of the woke left represents an existential threat to that rule, and to good comedy generally. When it comes to comedy, indeed, the mantra, increasingly, is that any gag that might conceivably offend anyone, especially someone belonging to what the woke left considers a victim group, should simply not be tolerated – period. To an alarming extent, this comedy-killing mentality has been institutionalized at outfits like Netflix and Comedy Central, at some comedy clubs, and in the mainstream media. So it is that the comics who are most honored in such circles are dreary scolds like the Tasmanian lesbian Hannah Gadsby, whose acts are light on actual humor and heavy on identity politics. You don’t hear a lot of laughter from these peop