Mary Grabar, Resident Fellow, The Alexander Hamilton Institute for the Study of Western Civilization (AHI), continues to publish at a torrid pace. Dr. Grabar’s book, Debunking FDR: The Man and the Myths (Regnery, 2024) will be appearing this fall. The October 10 issue of The Federalist has published her article on the smearing of J.D. Vance, and The College Fix quotes her on the many colleges and universities replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
Dr. Grabar rips left-of-center commentators’ tactic of smearing political adversaries as bullies for mild-mannered facial expressions. She particularly targets the New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd for her opinion piece on vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance for allegedly smirking on-stage. “I was reminded of my canceled academic career,” Dr. Grabar observes, and the “literary journals that went in-depth into such things as ‘phallogocentrism’ and the ‘male gaze.’ Over the past decade, such fears have migrated from campuses to the everyday world.”
According to Dowd, Vance committed ungodly microaggressions debating Tim Walz. Vance did not bellow and bawl in Hitlerian fashion, but he donned a “mask of likability and empathy.” But Dowd asserted that Vance’s performance smacked of “masculine aggression and toxicity.”
Similarly denounced for a mild-mannered smirking response was teenage Nick Sandmann, who wore a MAGA hat while confronting “a Native American ‘elder’ [who] banged a drum in his face during the March for Life.” Mike Johnson, speaker of the House of Representatives, allegedly committed microaggressions during this year’s State of the Union address. “His eyebrows arched and fell. He pursed his lips,” according to New York Times analyst Rebecca Davis O’Brien. “He couldn’t decide whether he should stand up, smile or frown.” O’Brien charged him with the grave crime of making “facial expressions.”
The College Fix article on October 14, Columbus Day, quotes Dr. Grabar as taking issue with movements to have Columbus Day disappeared from American history. “[T]he opposition to Columbus,” she maintained, “had little to do with the facts of America’s discovery or the man’s character.” She puts much of the blame on Howard Zinn’s scandalous, error-ridden People’s History of the United States (1980), which has received much traction over the years because it tied radicals to an anti-Western agenda.
In addition to Dr. Grabar’s forthcoming book, she is also the author of Amazon best-sellers Debunking Howard Zinn: Exposing the Fake History that Turned a Generation Against America (2019) and Debunking the 1619 Project: Exposing the Plan to Divide America (2021).
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