Ken Burns: Epic Historic Homophobia

Ken Burns: Epic Historic Homophobia

Documentarian Ken Burns is a homophobe by the very definition of the word. We’ve discussed in this column the homophobic treatment in his latest PBS documentary “The American Revolution.” But let’s be clear, we’re not the first group he has erased or misrepresented. Burns was heavily criticized after his documentary “The Civil War” for seeming, at times, to empathize more with the Confederacy and downplaying slavery. Perhaps because of that back…

Ken Burns Is Off To A Hard-Left Start With His American Revolution Series

Ken Burns and PBS want to teach us the history of the American Revolution. That’s objectively laudable, but from the opening seconds of his new six-part, 12-hour-long series on the Revolution, Burns is off to a truly ludicrous start. Why do I s...