Education

To Mock a Mockingbird

September rolls around again, and as it does so, the children here in England return back to school to learn all about reading, writing, arithmetic, and how to hate their own ...

A Reading from Homer (1885) by Lawrence Alma-Tadema

When Homer Becomes Hate Speech

A civilization confident in itself reads the Iliad. A civilization in decline denounces it. Guess which one we are. A confident civilization does not quake at the sight of Homer. ...

School Choice

Now that Texas and South Carolina have passed school choice bills, parents will be able to choose the best school for their kids in 17 states. Why not all states? After all, ...

United States Department of Education,  Washington, DC

Useless Government

I have a conflict. I don't much like Linda McMahon, President Donald Trump's new Education Secretary. I sued her once. She and her sleazy husband, Vince, owned a circus called ...

America’s 21st-Century Sputnik Moment Has Arrived

Just how much longer will American parents, their kids, business leaders and the political class tolerate the dreadful performance of our public schools? It's arguably the ...

Victimhood U

Colleges went mad. They charge students big bucks and then make them feel guilty. My new video looks at a new documentary called "The Coddling of the American Mind." It ...

Yale University

Are Law Schools Above the Law?

A fascinating test case of the rule of law in America is whether or not law schools are obeying the Supreme Court’s Students for Fair Admissions decision in the summer of 2023 ...

BeCruel to #BeKind

Sometimes it really is cruel to be kind, as the old adage almost goes. If so, then our current Western #BeKind culture must be amongst the very cruelest societies ever to have ...

The Times They Are a-Changin’

Why is Trump ahead in the polls over Biden, even though several traditional measures of electoral viability suggest the incumbent should be in good shape? For example, the Dow ...

Schools for Scandal

Some recent surprisingly honest talk from the U.K.’s new Chief Inspector of Schools about violent and intimidating no-go areas existing in certain places of inner-city ...

Drowning in Data

I think I’ve stumbled upon one type of education that actually would effectively reduce an unfortunate racial gap. Most forms of instruction don’t, of course. In the first ...

Claudine Gay

Claudine Gay, We Hardly Knew Ye

That’s a fitting title for a piece about Harvard’s plagiarizer-in-chief. Full disclosure: The title is, er, borrowed from the title of Kenneth O’Donnell’s 1973 book about ...

Our Public Schools Are a National Disaster

Perhaps what's most distressing about the latest collapse in high school test scores is that no one seems to be very distressed. You've probably heard the news that ACT scores ...

College Rip-Off

It's August. Many young people head off to college. This year, fortunately, fewer will go. I say "fortunately" because college is now an overpriced scam. Overpriced, because ...

Democrats Are Throwing Kids Off the School Bus

Have you heard the outrageous story of what happened recently in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's capital? Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), elected in 2022, had campaigned on school choice ...

Memorial Hall, Harvard University

Balderdash U d/b/a Harvard University

If Harvard were renamed Balderdash U, it might be forgiven for what at least two of its spokesmen wrote following the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that Harvard’s affirmative ...

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