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In an unprecedented display of leadership, the president, flanked by the provost and the chairman of the board of trustees, announced to the chanting and drumming students encamped in the South Quad: Out of respect for the rights of the members of our academic community, we have restrictions on the time, manner, and place for… Continue reading How Trustees Can Save Columbia, Brown, Northeastern, Penn, Indiana, Yale…

Four years after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, what do we know about the origin of the SARSCOV2 virus? We were presented at the outset with two competing theories: natural-origin spillover from animals to humans, and accidental lab leak. And at the outset, a cadre of elite scientists… Continue reading The Lie of the Century: The Origin of COVID-19

 Above, a map of Ukraine in green, with territory occupied or annexed by Russia in light green to the right — i.e., the eastern Donbas and the Crimean peninsula in the southeast. President Biden vows a fight for democracy, but recent history calls that into question. By Aaron Maté, RealClearInvestigationsApril 30, 2024 In successfully lobbying… Continue reading What 10 Years of U.S. Meddling in Ukraine Have Wrought (Spoiler Alert: Not Democracy)

As his list of catastrophic failures mount, including an unprecedented border crisis, growing economic disparities, soaring housing costs, debt and inflation, President Biden has chosen as his singular focus the promise to leverage the full force of the government to shove his extreme abortion goals down Americans’ throats. Actions taken in the last week provide just… Continue reading Biden’s Abortion Obsession Reveals Lopsided Priorities

With new institutes emerging at colleges and universities in Florida, Ohio, Utah, Tennessee, North Carolina, Texas, and elsewhere, civics education may be seeing a rebirth. “We need these civics centers at every institution of higher education in America,” says political theory professor Richard Avramenko. Avramenko, a Jack Miller Center faculty fellow, will be taking over… Continue reading Continuing a Tradition of Civics Excellence

Joe Feldman has faced many tough crowds in the course of successfully selling his “Grading for Equity” program to school districts across the nation. During the consultant’s presentations, teachers concerned that his approach lowers standards have rolled their eyes, questioned his understanding of students, and worse. Joe Feldman, equity-grading booster: Teachers and parents can be… Continue reading ‘Grading for Equity’: Promoting Students by Banning Grades of Zero and Leaving No Class Cut-Ups Behind

I was a teacher and then worked in test prep before starting the Classic Learning Test. Before and especially since then, I’ve reviewed a lot of high school curricula, particularly from Catholic and/or classical high schools, which tend to get some flak for their focus on things like Latin, rhetoric, and philosophy. When people argue… Continue reading How Catholics Can Save American Education

When Dexter Reed died in a shootout with Chicago police on March 21, the incident was quickly grafted onto a narrative that began in 2014 after a policeman killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. – namely, that the U.S. faces an epidemic of violence by unbridled cops who do not believe black lives matter. “Killing… Continue reading Why Fatal Police Shootings Aren’t Declining: Some Uncomfortable Facts

Above, Vice President Biden meets ex-Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk at the White House in June 2016 as his Ukraine adviser Eric Ciaramella (right) looks on.  By Paul Sperry, RealClearInvestigationsApril 17, 2024 The ‘whistleblower’ who sparked Donald Trump’s first impeachment was deeply involved in the political maneuverings behind Biden-family business schemes in Ukraine that Trump… Continue reading Impeachment ‘Whistleblower’ Was in the Loop of Biden-Ukraine Affairs That Trump Wanted Probed

One hundred and fifty-nine years ago this Sunday, a 26-year-old white supremacist and Confederate sympathizer named John Wilkes Booth pointed a .44 caliber derringer pistol at the back of Abraham Lincoln’s head and squeezed the trigger. The 56-year-old president clung to life for nine agonizing hours, expiring the next morning in a cramped room rented… Continue reading How Lincoln’s Assassination Changed American History