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July 3, 2025
The Problem with Mamdani Is Not SocialismAnd obsessing over socialism will be a good way to ignore the real issue, and thereby sink America.
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June 4, 2025
The Gaza War is Not About ProportionalityMilitary victory is not settled according to the rules of cost accounting in which expenses are weighed against gains.
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April 11, 2025
The Left Achieves Peak Political InsanityIt is all too easy to “solve” problems by organizing protests and shouting obscenities.
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April 6, 2025
Will Musk’s Nightmare Come True?While America may epitomize western civilization, our understanding of how to achieve it is limited.
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March 7, 2025
The Enduring Battle Over ‘Merit’The desire for merit may now be in ascendancy, but no victory can be final.
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February 8, 2025
How American Education Promotes SlothThe anti-work ethic mentality is largely rooted in misguided compassion, the desire not to punish those who skip school, disrupt the classroom, or are unwilling to work hard for good grades.
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January 3, 2025
Jim Crow Education Comes to New York CityAmerican education has gone full circle from “Separate but Equal” to “Everybody is equal” to resurrecting “Separate but Equal.”
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November 29, 2024
The Feminization of American PoliticsThis sex-based divide may endure for upcoming elections, but the arithmetic for a feminist-brand party will not ensure victory regardless of the Democrat’s aggressive pro-women agenda.
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November 21, 2024
A Primordial Win‘Pocketbook’ issues such as grocery prices are central to voters, but only up to a point. Trump understood this, and he implemented it masterfully.
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November 15, 2024
The Party of the Well-Educated Offers the Least Well-Educated CandidatesThe Democrats, now the party of the college educated, especially college professors, nominated Presidential and Vice-Presidential candidates who were among the most poorly educated candidates in recent history.
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November 8, 2024
The Next Inclusion Madness: NeurodiversityWith victimhood an asset, not a liability, the next frontier of diversity may become mental illness.
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November 3, 2024
The Futile Quest for EquityWill Americans tolerate endless government intervention to level all outcomes?
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October 26, 2024
The Rise of Political VitriolAmerican presidential campaigns have become increasingly vitriolic.
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October 5, 2024
What Happens to All the Unnecessary DEI Workers?DEI ideology is now in decline... or is it?
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September 21, 2024
Are Fat Jokes an Existential Threat to American Universities?Attempts to purify university campuses will invariably destroy the university’s core mission of finding and disseminating knowledge.
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September 15, 2024
The Blank Slate and Totalitarian CreepIt is ironic that genetic determinism, the great bogeyman of today’s liberals and often falsely associated with Naziism, may in practice deter tyranny.
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September 2, 2024
The Democrat Plan to Restore the Higher Education Indoctrination Industrial ComplexWhat's behind Kamala Harris and her fellow Democrats' big plans to shovel pork at higher education?
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August 24, 2024
The Lure of Easy Home OwnershipKamala Harris’s plan to promote greater home ownership is demagoguery.
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August 15, 2024
Racial Equality and Election FraudAlmost 60 years have passed since the Voting Rights Act of 1965 became law, while its accomplishments are self-evident, one should ask if there is more to racial progress than just winning elections.
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July 27, 2024
Democracy and the Donor ClassAmong recent political events, perhaps the most notable has been the power of a small group of super-rich Americans to exercise outsized political influence.
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July 19, 2024
The Stonewall Riot HoaxA glitzy new museum in New York City hides the grim reality behind the Stonewall riot, a flashpoint for sexual ‘liberation.’
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June 13, 2024
Will New York City Die of Stupidity?If those struggling to advance economically jump the turnstile, they might have saved a dollar or two, but if the subway never arrives, good luck on moving up the ladder.
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June 7, 2024
Will the United States Become a Third World Nation?What separates First World nations fom Third World nations is not vast natural resources, but human capital.
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June 1, 2024
Confronting University Anti-SemitismCan Jewish students feel safe on campus? The only genuine solution is to abandon the meek, “flight, not fight” mentality and instead develop a backbone to terrify your enemies.
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May 25, 2024
Escaping from Bloody RealityKristi Noem did nothing unusual. But errors like this can kill political careers because many are detached from physical realities.
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May 17, 2024
The Two Public Opinions on RaceIn today’s America, two “public opinions” on race co-exist.
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May 7, 2024
Useful Idiots for HamasThe stricken live in a universe where words lose their meaning and are thus unable to separate good from evil.
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April 30, 2024
Killing Capitalism by Ending Racial DiscriminationA sword of Damocles now hangs over nearly every American business since it undoubtedly has at least one disgruntled job applicant, employee, or fired worker convinced that he, she, or it was the victim of discrimination and relief is only a telephone call away.
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April 22, 2024
Black Wars of Liberation Come to AmericaSecretary of State Blinken recently appointed Zakiya Carr Johnson as the State Department’s top DEI officer. She calls America "a failed historic model."
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March 18, 2024
DIE Kills American Chip ManufacturingIf all the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion functionaries and their supporters were a corporation -- DIE, Inc. -- it might rival Apple’s market value.
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March 9, 2024
Black Politics: The Case of Selma, AlabamaBlacks have been winning elections in Selma over a half century, but the city’s economic travails have grown worse.
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March 3, 2024
The End of AssimilationAssimilation of immigrants used to work well for the United States...but things have changed.
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February 9, 2024
The Day All the Free Food VanishedWhat if Chinese hackers successfully disrupted the entire SNAP network?
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January 31, 2024
The De-evolution of the WestHistory and merely observing today’s world shows that Western Civilization is not the default human condition. It may, in fact, be the exception.
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January 19, 2024
What If DIE Dies?One theory is they’d all get government jobs—the classic solution to dealing with the unemployable.
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January 10, 2024
Claudine Gay’s Most Grievous SinClaudine Gay is intent on promoting the Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity (DIE) agenda whose aim is to radically transform the United States, including universities such as Harvard.
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December 19, 2023
The Real Claudine Gay ScandalFuture Harvard students accused of plagiarisms may now invoke “the Gay rule” in their defense: it takes at last two dozen instances of intellectual thievery for a conviction.
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December 11, 2023
Anti-Discrimination Laws and the War on CapitalismIt is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, but in New York City the infatuation with “disastrous good intentions” is a sacred command.
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December 4, 2023
A Plague of College Student DishonestyYoung people nowadays seek admission to top schools with tactics that are at best questionable and at worst dishonest. And they succeed!
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November 20, 2023
The Plight of Jews on College CampusesThose who envision campus life as a serene setting where students and professor discuss big issues are out of touch with today’s reality. And Jews are hardest hit.
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October 31, 2023
A Watershed Moment for JewsWe may now be experiencing a tectonic shift of major magnitude, namely the exodus of Jews from liberalism.
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October 27, 2023
Megadonors Should Fund New UniversitiesThe only solution to the current madness in higher education is to create educational alternatives, a long-term strategy where today’s elite schools fade into obscurity.
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October 22, 2023
Time for Billionaire Donors to Face RealityHatred toward Israel is just a symptom of the malady plaguing American higher education. There is a larger battle that billionaires should address when threatening to close their checkbook.
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October 17, 2023
The Alternate Universe of Anti-Israel ProtestorsContemporary universities have created youngsters who are willfully blind to reality and demand that others share their fantasies.
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October 12, 2023
The Queering of AmericaIts impact is far from insignificant, and pushing an agenda asserting that there is no such thing as “normal” in human sexuality is not inconsequential.
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October 9, 2023
Punishing 'Hate' but Not CriminalsThe criminal code in America has been eviscerated, but the impetus for greater criminalization gains momentum elsewhere.
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September 29, 2023
What the Senate's New Dress Code Is Really AboutThe collapse of civility is never sudden.
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September 8, 2023
Protecting the Rule of LawThat Lady Justice has been enlisted in the political fray by the Left to crush opposition is now undeniable.
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August 21, 2023
President Biden's DementiaCan we find smoking-gun proof that the president has lost his mental faculties?
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July 10, 2023
The War on Native American Names and MascotsRemoving Indian names and mascots is a war on Western culture that celebrates masculine virtues.
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June 23, 2023
What Happens if the Supreme Court Bans Racial Preferences?Past efforts to curtail racial preferences whether by elections or judicial decrees have fallen short, and current efforts in the courts will similarly fail.
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May 29, 2023
The Futility of School ReformIn an odd way, out-of-control schools may be our best defense against those who insist upon teaching dangerous nonsense.
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May 23, 2023
The Path to National SuicideU.S. fertility rates have dropped over the last two centuries and show no sign of rising. The baby shortfall has huge consequences beyond potentially filling the nation with immigrants.
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May 18, 2023
What the Arrest of Daniel Penny is All AboutThe Daniel Penny episode is a public training exercise in domestication and judging by the outpouring of support for the former Marine, lots of people are tired of being forced to submit when cornered.
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May 1, 2023
America’s Transgender CrazeWhat will happen when significant numbers of men gradually embrace feminine identities while girls, similarly drugged to suppress their female identities, strive to replace men in traditional masculine occupations?
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April 8, 2023
The Battle Over School Library CensorshipThe censorship battle is typically portrayed as Left vs. Right where the Right opposes freedom of expression, while the Left defends “the right to know.”
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April 3, 2023
Teachers’ Unions Are Destroying American EducationThe failure of the unions to demand basic safety for teachers in the classrooms is a major reason why teachers are fleeing the profession.
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February 4, 2023
American Students -- Dumber and More WokeJudged by the standards of evolution, American students may be going backwards.
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January 24, 2023
The Quixotic Quest for ReparationsBlacks will find pushing for reparations psychologically satisfying and there is always the hope of a massive windfall, but the pushback from opponents may well be costly.
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January 13, 2023
Obsessing over RacismIt is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and this certainly seems to apply to America’s current race relations.
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December 21, 2022
America’s Growing Political ImpotenceWhat happens when government not only fails to perform as expected, but its execution is inept to the point of being an embarrassment?
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December 3, 2022
The Futile Quest to Protect Racial DiversityAs schools attempt to hide information that might impair their quest for diversity, individuals and potential employers will learn to game the system.
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November 15, 2022
Racial Preferences: An Engine of ResentmentIf a hostile foreign power wanted to sow division in the U.S., it would be hard to think of a better tactic than promoting racial preferences.
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September 8, 2022
How Biden Gets it WrongPresident Biden’s speech and similar rhetoric emanating from the party’s Left wing is worse than run-of-the-mill mendacious campaign rhetoric.
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August 26, 2022
PEN Works to Destroy EducationControlling education is the grand prize in today’s culture wars.
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August 1, 2022
When Public Health Goes WokeThe public health profession, like so many of our once effective institutions, has gone woke and may even be promoting death.
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July 2, 2022
Hispanics Will Not Join a Black/Brown CoalitionThe adage "be careful of what you wish for, you may just get it" most certainly applies to recent efforts by black political leaders to expand ballot access.
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June 22, 2022
Manufacturing Social Justice Warriors on an Industrial ScaleFor over a half century, American institutions of higher education have been guilty of promoting oikophobia -- hatred of one’s own people and, more generally, Western civilization.
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July 28, 2020
Defunding School PoliceAmong all foolish ideas, none is stupider than trying to defund police departments.
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June 25, 2020
The Coming Demise of American Big Tech?If the diversity mania goes unchallenged, American Big Tech may slowly lose its edge as consumers gravitate to better software and communications gear built in China though engineered by Americans unable to advance up the Google or Apple career ladder.
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June 21, 2020
Why Are University Students So Stupidity-Friendly?An experienced ivy league professor describes how it all started going downhill.
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June 2, 2020
Lying for DiversityThe University of California’s recent decision to replace the SAT and ACT with some future “fairer” test so as to boost black and Hispanic enrollment has generated immense controversy.
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May 28, 2020
Distance Learning's DownfallThe rush to embrace expensive technology is best understood as a political response to deeply rooted educational problems.
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May 18, 2020
Is COVID-19 Our New Sputnik Moment?It's time for the United States to take China seriously.
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May 11, 2020
The COVID-19 sword of DamoclesThose who are panicking are in sharp conflict with those desperate to get back to work, and neither is entirely wrong.
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May 3, 2020
Bankrupting Government to Achieve Educational UtopiaToday's inner-city schools find themselves between the rock of declining performance and the hard place of declining finances.
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December 27, 2019
The Campaign Money Industrial ComplexThe costly three-ring primary circus seems to enrich thousands while not choosing the best possible presidential candidate.
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August 13, 2019
Understanding Recent Mass ShootingsMass shootings, regardless of the race of the shooter, are not a national catastrophe if judged by the number of people killed.
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August 1, 2019
Too Many Candidates Undermine Democratic ElectionsWhile two office-seekers may be the minimum, is there a maximum?
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July 23, 2019
Free Tuition and Forgiving Student Debt will Not Save Radical College FacultyThe Law of Unintended Consequences is ready to teach a lesson to left-wing college faculty members and their Democrat allies who want to shower more than a trillion dollars on the customers of higher education.
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December 21, 2018
What Makes Trump RunWe are now governed by likes of Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, who have spent their entire lives on the government payroll with zero firsthand private sector experience.
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November 3, 2018
'If you see a white person...say something'In settings obsessing over the feelings of certain minority groups, alerting the authorities about apparent suspicious behavior can be personally risky.
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October 30, 2018
Is Donald Trump Responsible for the Caravans?Sustaining low unemployment without inviting hordes of illegals is a quandary of the first order.
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September 15, 2018
Faking Your Way to Racial EqualityDishonest teachers and school administrators are defrauding gullible youngsters and their parents by falsely certifying academic accomplishment.
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September 8, 2018
The Elephant at the Southern BorderThe influx of millions of low-I.Q. people will likely transform America and conceivably even edge us closer to nations like Brazil and even Venezuela.
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July 13, 2018
The Old versus the New LeftWhen it comes to being anti-American, the left’s current incarnation is certainly no slouch compared to its older Marxist namesake.
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April 16, 2018
Would Progress in Genetics Research End the Racial Spoils System?Opponents of the racial preferences, affirmative action and all the rest are wasting their time by awaiting the Messiah of genetic research.
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September 18, 2017
Spending Millions to Fill Garbage Cans with Nutritious MealsIn New York City, free meals for all has been hailed as a panacea. The snowballing costs and wasted food tell a different story.
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July 29, 2017
Training Americans for Dependency One Bite at a TimeLong before a youngster can vote, he learns, regardless of what economists say, that there really is such a thing as a free lunch.
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July 22, 2017
Improving Health Care: The Doc-in-a-Box OptionThe market-driven urgent care solution dramatically improves health care for those in need and at a reasonable cost.
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June 6, 2017
'Free' Government-Funded Health CareSlowly extending First Amendment rights is one thing; it's quite another to expand a right whose implementation will cost tens of billions.
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May 8, 2017
The New York Times and Upper West Side SegregationWhen the New York Times covers Upper West Side liberals trying to keep their children out of minority-dominated schools, one can only be reminded of proper Victorians struggling to discuss venereal diseases as if sex never happened.
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December 19, 2016
Defending the Electoral CollegeDemocrats who want to sneak Hillary into the Oval Office by messing with this system are playing with fire.
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September 10, 2016
What Happens When Trump Departs?In today’s P.C.-dominated landscape, it is important to honor the gods of multiculturalism and inclusion, even if paying homage fails to bring the votes.
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June 6, 2016
The Obama Museum: the Education WingWhat gives Obama the legal authority to ban institutions of higher education from refusing to admit troublemakers, including convicted felons?
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May 18, 2016
Why Donald Trump can be the real conservativeOf all the candidates seeking the conservative mantle, Trump may be by temperament and outside obligations best suited to achieve victory via apathy.
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May 14, 2016
The Human Case for Economic NationalismSomehow, helping overseas workers with "fair trade" imports displays social responsibility, but shunning $15.00 shirts made in rural Alabama in favor of the $5.00 version from China is celebrated by economists as marketplace “sophistication.”
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April 8, 2016
Obama Administration Sticking it to WhiteyRecent events outside of Baltimore, MD suggest that enmity toward whites does afflict some Obama administrators and our proof, though short of the smoking gun standard, is probably as good as it gets.
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March 12, 2016
Bernie’s Doomed Democratic SocialismAn ironic relationship exists between a successful Scandinavian social welfare system and pre-existing wealth and an orderly, peaceful citizenry.
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February 22, 2016
Antonin Scalia and the Battle against KritarchyKritarchy, the rule of judges, is what we have now. What do we do to fix it?
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January 13, 2016
Finding the Real Anti-PC Presidential CandidateWhile it is all too easy to be anti-PC in the abstract, the proof of a candidate’s seriousness can only be displayed in the specifics.
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November 23, 2015
Useful Idiots Gone WildThe current ruckus on campus is entirely about pushing the university leftward, and these immature campus social justice warriors are what Lenin called useful idiots.
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November 2, 2015
America's Real Education WoesThanks to conscious policies and long-term demographic trends we have created a nation, on average, doomed to mediocre educational attainment.
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September 16, 2015
Why Trump Terrifies the EstablishmentThe ability to bring to the fore a once suppressed, taboo-filled agenda, all the while galvanizing the apathetic, explains the vitriol directed at Trump
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September 9, 2015
Europe's Immigrant ProblemThis assimilation question is fundamental but it is being ignored -- frank talk is verboten in today’s PC times.
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August 21, 2015
Making College More Affordable (and Less PC)Hillary Clinton has the wrong plan to make higher education affordable. It's really not that hard.
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August 12, 2015
Radical Egalitarianism Is the Real ThreatRadical egalitarianism is metastasizing and the damage inflicted far outweighs anything the 17 GOP candidates mention, including Trump’s horror stories of criminal illegals.
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May 11, 2015
Sanitizing Higher EducationThe University of Illinois-Urbana proposes setting up its own Ministry of Truth.
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May 2, 2015
The Futility of Jobs ProgramsCities like Baltimore and Philadelphia may eventually reverse their economic decline but their indigenous underclasses are unlikely to participate in that revival
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April 13, 2015
How Diversity Subverts the UniversityRacial preferences deeply corrupt and will inevitably undermine academic excellence in ways that campus outsiders seldom grasp.
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April 1, 2015
The 'Honest Conversation on Race' TrapAn opportunity to advance racial progress is just the bait.
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March 17, 2015
Profiting from the N-WordSomething deeper is transpiring beyond privately (and legally) voicing a taboo word.
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February 27, 2015
Anti-Racism Mania at Elite Private SchoolsIt is predictable that when remedy after remedy fails, when spending billions leave racial gaps untouched, we instinctively return to our roots with “solutions” that resemble burning witches.
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February 19, 2015
Social Justice Warriors Come to CampusThe shallowness of the demands of radical students is breathtaking and suggests that these activists are just winging it.
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February 8, 2015
A Movement Led by SheepLeaders on the right generally lack courage, and this deficiency undercuts enthusiasm among rank-and-file conservatives.
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October 28, 2014
The Real Scandal at UNCWill college sports scandals never end? Not as long as everyone's palm gets greased.
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August 20, 2014
Do the Ferguson Protestors Really Want Justice?Events in Ferguson puts on display a fundamental divide on the very meaning of “justice” that is unlikely to vanish.
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August 6, 2014
Congressman Ryan and the Ending of PovertyBureaucratic reorganization won’t end poverty.
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July 30, 2014
The Radical Egalitarian Assault on the Big AppleThe plan is simple: kick out hard working Asians, many of whom are below the poverty line, from the city's academically elite high schools, and replace them with blacks and Hispanics
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July 14, 2014
When it Comes to Race, Why Worry About Facts?Avoiding frankness on racial matters simply guarantees that the underclass will remain mired in poverty and maladaptive behavior.
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March 17, 2014
How 'My Brother's Keeper' Stands to Destroy Already Bad SchoolsBarack Obama’s putative cure for out-of-control young men of color is a modern-day Progressive nightmare.
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December 10, 2013
Beware Educational HysteriaJust how many super-smart people are really necessary for a nation's prosperity? A million? Ten million? Nobody knows and the answer is probably incalculable.
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November 8, 2013
Social Services and the Free Lunch FallacyA dangerous disconnect between ordinary consumer behavior and cravings for government benefits
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October 31, 2013
The Education Reform RacketComputer handouts to students is an educational dead end.
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October 23, 2013
Curing Majority Faction MischiefThe Constitution was never designed to facilitate curing the ills of society.
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September 6, 2013
What to Do about Black Crime?The overall U.S. murder rate has been falling in recent years, but it is rising among blacks, and especially black males.
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August 26, 2013
Obama's Crackpot Scheme to Make College 'More Affordable'Freedom is slavery, war is peace, and spending ridiculous amounts of additional money on bloated colleges will bring tuition down.
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August 24, 2013
What is to be Done?A review of Donald J. Devine's America's Way Back: Reclaiming Freedom, Tradition and Constitution
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August 16, 2013
America's Educational MadnessLack of progress is largely irreversible and self-inflicted.
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August 7, 2013
What's Next for Civil Rights?Teetering as it is on the verge of irrelevance, the civil rights establishment requires a new mission.
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August 1, 2013
Obama Suffers from Compulsive State Aggrandizing DisorderEconomic inequality isn't a problem -- it's a condition.
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July 22, 2013
Where Is the Rule of Law?The Zimmerman trial outcome was good for African-Americans, though in ways that many will refuse to believe, let alone accept.
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July 12, 2013
Lies, Damned Lies and University LiesNothing underlines the intellectual bankruptcy of the modern university more clearly than its surrender to 'diversity'.
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May 18, 2013
Witch-Hunting Returns to MassachusettsThe sound and fury over Jason Richwine has less to do with "hate" and a lot more to do with insanity in academia.
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April 4, 2013
Creating Dependency, One Mouthful at a TimeWhat happens to a society that teaches its children that not working is the best way to get fed?
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February 18, 2013
The Risk of Obama's Universal DaycareIt's back: the seemingly irrepressible urge to fix everything by enrolling millions of toddlers into state-administered daycare
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October 9, 2012
NAACP Tries to Kill the Golden GooseWith an absence of meaningful causes to fight for, it looks like the NAACP has set its sights on destroying education.
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May 31, 2012
What Mitt Should Do about EducationAfter decades of grand ill-conceived schemes that cost billions and accomplished nothing, it's time for something different. First, don't promise the impossible. Then combine "less is more" with "do no harm."
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May 29, 2012
Mitt Flunks Education 101Romney has offered up a dog's breakfast of doomed-to-fail, often airhead nostrums. If the brainy Romney cannot get it right, perhaps no candidate can.
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May 23, 2012
The Obama Administration's War on Poor BlacksThis is a remarkably stealthy war, and one hardly noticed by Republicans, but the carnage far outshines what Republicans have, allegedly, been inflicting on women and the poor.
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May 3, 2012
Deciphering the Occupy Wall Street MovementRecreational politics lacks anything resembling officially certified dogma, let alone leaders who can impose orthodoxy. This is make-it-up-as-you-go-along politics, and the result is, naturally, a cacophony of strident voices.
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April 26, 2012
Obama's Dangerous, Futile Anti-Bullying CrusadeWhen the federal government sticks its nose in tens of thousands of schools to stop bullying, everyone (except the federal government) loses.
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March 29, 2012
The Trayvon Martin Case and the Rule of LawThe incident increasingly resembles something like lawless Somalia or Pakistan: enraged rabble marching through the streets, searching from some alleged perpetrator of some rumored crime so as to dispense on-the-spot justice.
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March 9, 2012
U.S. Schools under Attack as Secretary of Education's Brain HackedThe ongoing destruction of America's educational system is too well conceived, too devious to be the work of our own barely competent education "experts." There must be some higher intelligence guiding this subversion.
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February 28, 2012
The Work Ethic and U.S. UnemploymentThe problem that dare not speak its name: the work ethic, unemployment, and our economic future.
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February 26, 2012
The Silence Regarding the Persecution of ChristiansWhy is the U.S. so quiet when it comes to persecuted Christians abroad? The answer is as simple as a cost-benefit analysis.
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February 9, 2012
Is Exporting Democracy Subversive?Egypt's Field Marshall Mohamed Hussein Tantawi certainly seems to think so.
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February 2, 2012
Why There is 'Too Much' Money in ElectionsAll this hand-wringing about evil money sidesteps the reasons for the increase in the expensiveness of campaigns year to year.
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January 3, 2012
The Case against Presidential PrimariesAmerica would be far better off if we returned to an era when party nominees were chosen at conventions, not primaries.
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October 23, 2011
Yet One More Doomed Education ReformThe term "bad school" is a euphemism, a way of avoiding political trouble with grievance group leaders just waiting to exploit alleged "insults" to rally the troops to extract material benefits.
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August 25, 2011
The Wacky World of Liberal FundamentalismJudged by the unforgiving standards of science, the liberal creed may be far wackier (and factually incorrect) than any assertion about God creating the world in seven days.
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August 17, 2011
Bloomberg/Soros Millions for Futile Social EngineeringGeorge Soros and Michael Bloomberg are each squandering $30 million on a social engineering experiment. Problem is, taxpayer are kicking in much more.
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August 5, 2011
Politics is Not the Answer to Black Economic WoesPolitics has become a cheap substitute for the traditional (and often painful) formula for slow but sure economic progress.
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May 16, 2011
Taj Mahal SchoolsA new wave of ultra-expensive public schools, some costing well more than a hundred million dollars, purports to fix America's edication problems. They are bound to fail.
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May 2, 2011
Are Democratic Elections Feasible in the Middle East?After the Ottoman Empire's demise following WWI, Britain installed monarchies in the region as the "natural" political arrangement. Maybe a benign authoritarian regime is not so terrible in the context.
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April 25, 2011
The Racialization of Deficit CuttingRace is increasingly infusing the current debate over federal spending and the soaring national debt. This is what lies at the heart of accusing the Tea Party of "racism."
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April 19, 2011
Statists and the Racial 'Health Gap'The Obama Administration wants to close the health gap between "minorities" and whites. This is more than fiscal wastefulness or inept policy-making; it is evil.
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March 14, 2011
Academic Excellence and the Mix of StudentsWe are not a nation of mediocre students; we are nation of millions of very smart kids and a nation of many not-so-smart youngsters.
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February 16, 2011
Time to Defend the WestNobody fears those who will not defend their own civilization. Time to take the gloves off.
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February 1, 2011
Obama's Rathole MomentPresident Obama got matters exactly backward when he addressed education last week before a joint session of Congress.
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January 21, 2011
Education Cutbacks and Urban ViolenceBloated public education budgets in our large cities may be immune from serious cuts for an unpalatable reason: the threat of urban violence.
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January 5, 2011
The Attack of the Radical EgalitariansTrying to asphyxiate the goose that lays the golden eggs.
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December 29, 2010
How Not to Help Blacks Find EmploymentThe federal government wants to ban employers from checking credit and criminal histories so as not to "unreasonably" disadvantage black job applicants.
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December 21, 2010
The College Diploma FraudA guide to schools desperate to increase minority graduation rates.
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November 21, 2010
The Evil of Cultural EngineeringAfter a few decades of unfashionability, the theory that black culture explains the academic achievement gap is back.
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November 10, 2010
Spending Less for Better EducationA sensible strategy for saving money and serving students better.
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October 28, 2010
College for Those Who Can't LearnThe latest installment of Educators Gone Wild is the push to enroll the "intellectually disabled" in college.
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October 14, 2010
Destroying Schools to Achieve Racial JusticeThe latest education-destroying innovation is eliminating the disproportionate suspension and expulsions of African-American students.
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October 8, 2010
Waiting for the Superman Who Will Never ArriveWaiting for "Superman" seemingly embraces a moderate conservative view of education reform. But this dangerous fantasy will exacerbate an already troubled situation.
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September 20, 2010
Motivating Students, or Why Big Bird Must DieRegardless of ideological pedigree, today's educational reforms all share a common theme: students themselves are not responsible for their dreadful academic performance.
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September 8, 2010
The War on Academic AchievementJudged by all the billions of dollars now flowing into "education reform," it appears that Washington, and especially the Obama administration, is obsessed with improving academic achievement. That's a cruel joke.
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September 1, 2010
Football Is the Model for Education ReformConsider an education-related endeavor that abhors mediocrity, deception, and lame excuses: football.
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August 27, 2010
President Obama's Compulsive Appeasement DisorderEverything about Obama, regardless of his "tough" Chicago activist background, suggests a man not taken seriously by foreign dictators.
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August 5, 2010
The Education Gimmick of the Year Club Strikes AgainSince sometime in the 1960s, American educators have been enrolled in the Education Gimmick of the Year Club.
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July 22, 2010
What the NAACP/Tea Party Battle Is Really AboutFar deeper animosities that will not vanish with "clarifications" or expelling "racist" Tea Partiers.
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July 20, 2010
Evil EducatorsThe current mania to press academically challenged students, usually blacks and Hispanics, to obtain a high school diploma does no good for the students or society.
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July 11, 2010
Magical Education and the Slide into Third-WorldismThough the U.S. is indisputably a first-world nation, this is not the typical human condition.
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July 5, 2010
Dependency, the Liberals' Natural ResourceProblems were once liabilities to be cured; today, those who depend on the dependent would have to find new employment if problems were solved.
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June 9, 2010
Pushing Big Government Through the GapEnemies of limited government are an energetic, persistent bunch. They have found an effective strategy to aggrandize state power endlessly.
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May 23, 2010
Demonstrations and DependencyWhat makes taking to the streets so alluring is its ease. As the Greeks can tell you, joining a rally far outshines paying taxes or any other personal remedy.
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May 14, 2010
Obama Buyer's RemorsePresident Obama's disappointing performance has indisputably brought enormous buyer's remorse to many of his fans
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May 10, 2010
Tea Parties and RacismGet used to it, Tea Partiers: You are going to be called racists.
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April 29, 2010
A Stranger in Our MidstAs the Obama administration enters its second year, I -- and undoubtedly millions of others -- have struggled to develop a shorthand term that captures our emotional unease.
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March 28, 2010
Uplifting the Poor One Lie at a TimeThe desire to expand the social welfare state, even if by quackery, has become so ingrained in certain academic departments that it resembles a religious faith.
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February 3, 2010
Obama and Education: Pork You Can Believe InAmerica is addicted to education largess.
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January 27, 2010
President Obama Flunks Campaign Finance 101The president's reactions to last week's Supreme Court decision betray a profound ignorance of campaign finance.
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January 20, 2010
Should the Worst Schools Get the Best Teachers?A glittering solution that fails to survive even the most rudimentary inspection.
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December 28, 2009
The Liberal Plot against American EducationI am usually skeptical about conspiracy theories, but American education's sorrowful state has increasingly pushed me in that direction.
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October 6, 2009
The Long March of Kevin JenningsThe Czar for school safety will not reduce school crime; the opposite is more likely -- he will discover ever more "crime" and in the process help impose the gay agenda
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September 29, 2009
Revenge of the Golden GooseAs taxes increase, and inflation brings bracket creep, expect tax avoidance and outright tax cheating to soar in America.
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September 23, 2009
White Racism ForeverUntil the 1970s "white racism" never arose as explanations of racial inequality. Since then, the term has become the glib reason for imperfect racial progress, an irresistible tool for the left.
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August 24, 2009
Will the Real Public Opinion on ObamaCare Please Stand UpModern scientific polling can manage, even manipulate, a potentially bothersome public, at least for those who can afford costly surveys. But it does not eual "public opinion."
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August 12, 2009
Midas Muffler, Not Canada is the Model for Health Care ReformEmpathy aside, ObamaCare is an extravagant, wasteful, overly bureaucratized answer to a quandary for which a less costly and more efficient solution that already exists.
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April 26, 2009
Demand, Not Supply Drives Educational AchievementFree market conservatives passionately insist that school choice will solve America's education woes. But does supply create demand, or vice versa?
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March 24, 2009
The Futility of American Educational ReformWhen learning is never the student's responsibility.