End of College
Kerby Anderson Stephen McBride is predicting the end of college as we know it. The key to his prediction is the last four words: as we know it. The prestigious universities will survive because they w...
Flexible School Financing
Penna Dexter Families with K-12 children have spent the summer waiting to find out whether their schools will reopen for the fall semester or offer virtual learning at least in the early weeks. School...
Charter Schools
Kerby Anderson Earlier this month Dr. Thomas Sowell published his book, Charter Schools and Their Enemies. It is an eye-opening look at the success of these schools and the growing criticism of them f...
News Media Newspeak
Kerby Anderson If you have ever read George Orwell’s dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, you are familiar with the idea of newspeak. Examples would be: “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance i...
Self-Cancel Culture
Kerby Anderson It should be obvious to just about anyone with a bit of common sense that the “cancel culture” has gone off the deep end. I have talked about J.K. Rowling, writer of the Harry Potter se...
Race Hoaxes
Kerby Anderson Dennis Prager recently wrote a column presenting “5 Arguments Against ‘America is a Racist Country’.” His first argument was based on a previous column that asked, “If America Is So Rac...
Cultural Revolution
Penna Dexter Historian, columnist, and professor Victor Davis Hanson has been speaking and writing lately about the current cultural revolution. He contrasts cultural revolutions with political revolu...
Churches and the Virus
Kerby Anderson The headlines for a New York Times article said it all: “Churches Were Eager to Reopen. Now They Are a Major Source of Coronavirus Cases.” It’s a scary headline, that isn’t even close t...
Disavowed Study
Kerby Anderson How should the academic world respond when a research study published in a peer-reviewed journal comes to a conclusion you wouldn’t expect? In the past, some might have challenged the m...
Online Mob
Kerby Anderson “The online mob came for Harald Uhlig.” That is how a recent column by John Stossel begins. The University of Chicago professor is also the head of the Journal of Political Economy but...
