On this week’s episode of the RealClearInvestigations Podcast, RCI Editor J. Peder Zane and RCI Senior Reporter James Varney speak with sports columnist Matt Calkins, who resigned from the Seattle Times after the newspaper killed his column that argued it is not hateful to oppose biological men playing women’s sports.

On the news round-up, Zane and Varney discuss a series of stories on the media including: a PJ Media piece on California’s chilling new law Republicans have dubbed the “Stop Nick Shirley Act”; a Washington Free Beacon analysis showing how the New York Times uses the term Islamophobia to delegitimize viewpoints and shut down debate; and an arbitrator’s ruling that the Washington Post must rehire an opinion columnist the paper had fired for inflammatory tweets regarding the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

Articles Discussed in This Podcast:

• Matt Calkins: I Was a Sports Columnist at the Seattle Times for 11 years. This is why I resigned
• Matt Calkins: X account
• PJ Media: Hiding Much? Newsom Signs 'Stop Nick Shirley Act.'
• Washington Free Beacon: The New York Times Is Weaponizing Islamophobia
• Guardian: Washington Post Ordered To Reinstate Opinion Writer Fired Over Charlie Kirk Posts