No Simple Solutions
Kerby Anderson Matt Taibbi worked for many years as a contributing editor for Rolling Stones and now is the publisher of Racket News. After the horrible news of the school shooting at a Minneapolis Ca...
More Sellers Than Buyers
Kerby Anderson I have two neighbors that illustrate what is happening and will continue to happen in the housing market. One neighbor just sold their house for a much lower price than anyone in the n...
Southern Surge
Kerby Anderson The National Assessment of Educational Progress is often referred to as the Nation’s Report Card. For most of the states, this hasn’t been a report card you would want to show anyone....
Equitable Grading
Penna Dexter To address what they see as the problem of social inequities between students, education bureaucrats have implemented “reforms” in grading practices aimed at promoting ”equity” in student...
Social Media Debate
Kerby Anderson Yascha Mounk has been watching the battle over the impact of social media on young Americans. On one side are psychologists, like Jonathan Haidt, who has written about this for many ye...
Harvard and Bitcoin
Kerby Anderson Kenneth Rogoff is a Harvard University economics professor. On an X post, he identified himself as the Harvard economist who predicted back in 2018 that “A decade from now, Bitcoin is...
New Segregation
Kerby Anderson David Brooks writes in The New York Times about “America’s New Segregation.” He isn’t talking about racial segregation but instead is focusing on class segregation. Essentially, we are...
Universal Basic Income
Kerby Anderson Six months ago, I recorded a commentary on the idea of universal basic income. UBI is a fiscal program to pay a regular income to everyone without any conditions. At the time, I quoted...
Dr. Dobson
Penna Dexter The year was 1977. I was a baby Christian living in a suburb of Los Angeles. I volunteered to man the book table at an event at our church put on by a new organization: Focus on the Famil...
AI and Humanity
Kerby Anderson Jeff Dornick argues that “We Need to Rethink AI Before It Destroys What It Means to Be Human.” He begins by reminding us that America was built on the foundational belief that we are cr...
Little Sisters
Kerby Anderson Earlier this month a federal judge struck down a government regulation that protected the Little Sisters of the Poor. Once again, they will have to go to court. The case has been going...
