. Charlie Kirk was correct when he said, “When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence.” But it is even more accurate to say, as Ayn Rand pointed out, “When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.”
Education
Campus Progressives Preach Tolerance — and Produce Violence
Defining words as a form of violence creates a permission structure for actual violence.
Lewis and Clark College Dishonors Pioneers
Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were pioneers.
Ending The Federal Department of Education Would save Taxpayers $97 Billion Dollars a Year
By Neal McCluskey for Cato The Trump administration is looking for federal spending to cut, which seems pretty urgent given the nation’s nearly $37 trillion debt. The US Department of Education (US ED), which is neither constitutional, competent, nor effective, is...
Parent Power Can Improve US Education
Parents must seize control of their children’s education from the “interlocking directorate” that is waging a war against children’s minds.
The Demonization of “White” English Harms Black Students
Is Learning Standard “White” English Oppressive for Black Students?
The Pork Barrel Politics of the Department of Education
The department is designed to provide material and political benefits to the teachers’ unions, not to improve student outcomes.
Millennials for Communism
The horrors of Nazism, Stalinism, and Maoism did not begin in the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. Those horrors were the result of a long evolution of ideas leading to a consolidation of power in the central government in the quest for “social justice.”
Hamas Protests on Campus Reveal a Moral Flaw in our Universities
For Israel, the issue is: keep fighting or die. Our universities and intellectuals should continue to support them.
Who Will Defend Jonathan Yudelman?
There is a clear double standard going on here, which the Left is expert at exploiting.
The Double Standard on Freedom of Speech and Racism at American Universities Like Columbia
Universities cannot morally punish anti-black racism while tolerating anti-Jewish racism, even if the First Amendment protects both.
Product Safety Alert: Progressive Education
Educational practices linked to school shootings demand an investigation of the public schools.
How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom
The push to force everyone into higher education has proven to be a massive diversion of financial and human energy, and, just like Schumpeter predicted, it did the cause of freedom no favors.
“Context Matters”
For Harvard President Gay, context apparently matters only for genocidal threats against Jews.
Harvard President Claudine Gay Should Resign
In her testimony last week, Gay defended her refusal to punish students who call for genocide against Jews by asserting that “we embrace a commitment to full expression.”
Claudine Gay’s Double Standard on Freedom of Speech Renders Her Unfit To Lead Harvard
It was no surprise to me that Harvard was ranked dead last among major universities in supporting free speech.
End All Government-Backed Student Loan Programs
The solution is to end the government’s involvement in every aspect, and that includes putting an end to all government-backed student loans.
School Choice and Property Rights
Parents are forced to provide financial support for government schools, and this often leaves no money available to purchase an alternative education service.
Parental Rights in Education: The Fundamental Issue of Our Time
Do parents have an unalienable right to determine how, in what, and by whom their children will be educated, or should the government have that right?
Schools Should be Accountable to Parents and Students
Expanding the government’s education monopoly will not achieve that goal. Expanding freedom of choice will. Freedom of choice will empower parents and students to hold schools accountable.
Subsidies and Government Schools
If rural Texans want government schools, then they should be willing to pay for them. Nobody is stopping them from making voluntary contributions to their local schools. They aren’t doing that because they would prefer to force others to “contribute” to their cause.
DeSantis Reminds Public Universities of The Uncomfortable Truth About ‘He Who Pays the Piper’
DeSantis should instruct Florida colleges and universities as follows: If you want complete autonomy to do whatever you want, then fine. We’ll stop subsidizing you. You will then be free to raise your revenues in other ways—essentially from willing customers, investors, donors, or whomever.
Legislators Should be Protecting Intellectual Liberty
While the Senate is promoting the intellectual liberty of parents and students it is also assaulting that freedom by mandating that a particular set of ideas be taught.
The Reading Wars Have Returned with New Labels
Why the phonics-based approach is the only legitimate approach to beginning reading
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