[fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] [fusion_text columns=”” column_min_width=”” column_ rule_style=”default” rule_size=”” rule_ ] Every year, many thousands of American parents find that […]
President Trump on March 2 announced he would issue an executive order addressing free speech on college and university campuses. The order itself hasn’t been […]
For the study of classics, it is (if we may adapt Dickens) the best of times and the worst of times. It is the best […]
America’s educational system is breaking, and the primary culprits are the diversity bureaucracy, now an industrial strength special-interest group that grows more powerful and more […]
What would you say about a widely available consumer product that is highly addictive, facilitates and perhaps causes deeply anti-social behavior, leads to loneliness and […]
Middlebury College is widely renowned for their top-quality, immersive foreign language learning programs. Central to the Middlebury curriculum is the infamous language pledge, a promise […]
What is the real lesson of the Covington Catholic School incident last week at the Lincoln Memorial? Decent Americans are rightly appalled at the deliberate […]
There were approximately 2.5 million scientific papers published last year. Think about that. A researcher would have to read nearly 300 papers an hour, non-stop, […]
Almost 20 years ago, I was at a club dancing with a girl I didn’t know. She was performing a kind of dance popular at […]
American history is everywhere under attack. The recent skirmishes started with the campaign to remove Confederate statues, but it surely won’t end there. As our […]
My days as an American historian may be numbered. For the better part of 40 years, my extended family has featured American “living history” on […]
If logical argument is the Right’s “Maginot Line,” a defense against attacks from other directions entirely; if winning rational argument doesn’t actually help much in […]
Back in June, a belligerent New York City attorney briefly became a symbol of “xenophobia” for those who make it their business to deconstruct what’s […]
It was little noticed, and of little effect, but more than 2,000 professors signed a letter urging the U.S. Senate not to confirm Brett Kavanaugh […]
Now is that time of year when the seasons change, fall leaves become noticeable, and small talk is peppered with quips and opinions about politics. […]
A few weeks ago my wife and I were walking through the Brooklyn Book Festival and we saw a booth saying something about Harry Potter. […]
Some of the more zealous partisans of tax-funded schooling have resorted to a curious (and dubious) claim: “America’s Founders are on our side.” The Founders, […]
The Justice Department last week filed a “statement of interest” on behalf of a lawsuit by Students for Fair Admissions against Harvard University for discriminating […]
Millennials have already changed our country. This generation was raised in groups starting in daycare. They are linked constantly via social media. They never experienced […]
Andrew Cuomo’s proclamation on Wednesday that “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great,” was doubtless a jab at President […]