Charles Sykes talked about his book How the Right Lost Its Mind, in which he looks at the conservative movement in America. He was interviewed by Tammy Bruce.
Charles Sykes talked about his book How the Right Lost Its Mind, in which he weighs in on President Trump and the conservative movement. He spoke at the 2017 Miami Book Fair.
Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education
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ProfScam reveals the direct and ultimate reason for the collapse of higher education in the Unites States the selfish, wayward, and corrupt American university professor. ProfScam reveals the direct and ultimate reason for the collapse of higher education in the Unites States.
Charles Jay Sykes is an American political commentator and prominent never-Trumper.
Background
Charles Sykes was born on November 11, 1954 in Seattle, Washington, United States, and later grew up in New York and Fox Point, Wisconsin. He was born in the family of Katherine B. "Kay" (Border) and Jay G. Sykes, a lawyer who later worked as a journalist for several small newspapers in New York before settling with the Milwaukee Sentinel in 1962. Jay later became a board member of the American Civil Liberties Union Wisconsin chapter and ran for Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin unsuccessfully against Martin J. Schreiber in the 1970 primary.
Education
After graduating from Nicolet High School, Sykes enrolled at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee and completed his bachelor's degree in English in 1975.
Career
Sykes began Charles's career as a journalist, starting in 1975 with West Allis, Wisconsin weekly The Northeast Post for a year. In 1976, Sykes joined The Milwaukee Journal, starting with North Shore assignments before being promoted to the Milwaukee City Hall beat during the administration of Mayor Henry Maier.
After seven years of reporting in the Milwaukee area, Sykes moved to Cleveland in 1982 as a staff writer for Cleveland Magazine, but the magazine went out of business by the end of the year. Sykes returned to Milwaukee as managing editor at Milwaukee Magazine in 1983 and moved up to editor-in-chief in January 1984. Sykes wrote features, investigative articles, and commentary for Milwaukee Magazine.
Sykes has been a published author, primarily concerning education. He made his book debut in 1988 with "Profscam: Professors and the Demise of Higher Education." In addition, Sykes has written commentary for Imprimis, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and has edited WI Interest, the magazine of the Badger Institute and the website Right Wisconsin.
Sykes was an investigative reporter at WISN-TV in 1983. From 1993 to 2016, Sykes hosted the local Sunday morning talk show Sunday Insight for WTMJ-TV. In 1994, Sykes contributed an essay to the ITVS series "Declarations: Essays on American Ideals", which was broacast on PBS stations.
Sykes started hosting talk radio in 1989 as a substitute host for Mark Belling at WISN in Milwaukee. Sykes got his own show on WISN by 1992. Lacking a contract with WISN, Sykes jumped to WTMJ within a year and hosted a mid-day show there until December 19, 2016.
In 2002, Sykes and fellow WTMJ host Jeff Wagner gained prominence in leading a campaign to recall Milwaukee County Executive Tom Ament, who was embroiled in scandal for changing the county pension policy to give himself and close aides large payouts; Ament controversially retired at the end of February 2002 rather than resign to retain his pension.
In October 2016, Sykes announced that he had decided late in 2015 to quit his radio show for unspecified personal reasons.
Achievements
Sykes is famous for the hostin of a conservative talk show on WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He was also the successful editor of Right Wisconsin which he co-owns with WTMJ's parent company E. W. Scripps.
Sykes did not support the Donald Trump presidential 2016 bid, campaigning against him and instead choosing to cast a write-in vote for independent conservative candidate Evan McMullin.
Views
Charles was opposed to abortion.
Membership
Young Democrats
Connections
From 1980–1999, Charles was married to Diane S. Sykes. In 2000 he married Janet Riordan.
