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Recent polls have shown that few Americans, regardless of political party are satisfied with the cost, complexity or choices offered by America’s healthcare system.  One would think it might be an opportunity for sound bipartisan policy, as it once was when liberals like Ted Kennedy and Henry Waxman were able to work with conservative stalwarts… Continue reading Sanders’ Subpoena Brinksmanship | RealClearPolicy

Call it the big reset – downward – in public education. The alarming plunge in academic performance during the pandemic was met with a significant drop in grading and graduation standards to ease the pressure on students struggling with remote learning. The hope was that hundreds of billions of dollars of emergency federal aid would… Continue reading Public Education’s Alarming New 4th ‘R’: Reversal of Learning

The shocking scenes of college students, faculty, and staff defending Hamas’s October 7th massacre of Israeli civilians as a “legitimate act of resistance” have rightly been called antisemitism. Our father’s antisemitism was the centuries-old hatred of Jews just because they were Jews, different in their beliefs and customs. But this new form of antisemitism is… Continue reading How Civics Can Counter Antisemitism on Campus

When people complain about polarization in America, religious freedom sometimes takes the blame. How can people who disagree about such fundamental questions of life form one nation?    Actually, Americans have been finding ways to live with disagreements for centuries—since before we were a nation. And the religious liberty protections of our First Amendment have… Continue reading Religious Liberty Is Fundamental to Diversity

In the court of public opinion, higher education is on trial. Enrollment has been declining for a decade, and the trend cannot be explained entirely by demographic shifts. More than half of Americans now say they don’t believe college is worth the cost. People from disadvantaged backgrounds are growing especially skeptical, with just 45 percent of students from low-income,… Continue reading With Higher Education on Trial, Policy Changes May Be the Only Path to a Winning Case

Saturday marks Korean American Day, which honors the arrival of the first Korean migrants to the United States on January 13, 1903, and celebrates the contributions of our Korean American community. As we recognize Korean American Day, I reflect on the sacrifices my family made in the aftermath of the Korean War to come the… Continue reading Celebrating Korean Culture This Korean American Day

Liberalism and progressivism, in their most radical and aggressive forms, increasingly identify freedom with self-will and with the comprehensive repudiation of classical and Christian wisdom and the larger moral inheritance of the Western world. In The Wisdom of Our Ancestors: Conservative Humanism and the Western Tradition, just published by the University of Notre Dame Press,… Continue reading The Wisdom of Our Ancestors

There’s that saying that individuals shouldn’t stand in the way when the enemy is hanging himself. What’s true for individuals is arguably true in a commercial sense: the stumbles of a competing business represent an opportunity for the business not committing such egregious errors. This came to mind while reading all the jovial commentary from… Continue reading If Conservatives Loathe Harvard, Why All the Claudine Gay Outrage?

By Julie Kelly, RealClearInvestigationsJanuary 3, 2024 In a fiery exchange last month, CNN anchorwoman Abby Phillip told GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy that there was “no evidence” to support his claim that federal agents abetted protesters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Ramaswamy shot back that the FBI conspicuously has never denied that law… Continue reading The FBI-Tainted Whitmer ‘Kidnap Plot’ You’ve Heard Next to Nothing About