A Success Academy charter elementary school in Harlem had a higher proportion of the children in one of its classes pass the statewide math exam than in any other class at the same grade level, anywhere in the state of New York.
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Black Education: What Makes Sense?
There’s little question that charter schools provide superior educational opportunities for black youngsters.
Don’t Let Trump Hatred Thwart the Private School Choice Movement
Trump wants to give urban parents an opt-out of an underperforming government school. Resistance against Trump ought not to translate into resistance against parents who want a better future for their children.
Grateful for Not Starving: Why The Pilgrims at Plymouth Switched From Socialism to Capitalism
The Pilgrims nearly starved to death. They’d tried to farm collectively — the entire community owning all the land and sharing everything, like socialists.
The Fruits of College Indoctrination: Incivility, Censorship and a Contempt for Capitalism
Once the leftists gain control, as they have at many universities, free speech becomes a liability and must be suppressed.
We Have an Identity Problem
It’s biology, and not political agendas, that determine one’s race and sex.
The Rise of Capitalism and the Dignity of Labor
Capitalism has brought about growing prosperity for the human condition while cultivating a more polite society.
Air Into Bread
What is the Haber-Bosch process? It’s what keeps billions of people in the modern world from starving to death. In Hager’s phrase: it turns air into bread.
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress By Stephen Pinker
Enlightenment Now is just what the world needs right now. It is a defense of the ideas and values that have created the modern world, and a defense of that world itself.
Lying: What Do You Gain?
Lying is motivated by the mistaken belief that one can actually gain a value by telling a lie, to deceive others (or oneself).
‘The Incredibles 2’ Satisfies
With the same voice cast and writer and director, Brad Bird, as the 2004 original, this Pixar sequel, which is being released 14 years after its animated characters debuted, offers more of the same. By my estimate, and I enjoyed The Incredibles with qualifications,...
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Rogers sought to establish for the child a benevolent orientation to reality.
‘Solo’ Taps ‘Star Wars’ Ethos: Fans Can Rejoice Over Ron Howard’s Han Solo Movie
Unlike the abysmal Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Solo Emphasizes Story Telling Over Lefty Propaganda and Special Effects
Self-Made Men (1875)
Fortune may crowd a man’s life with fortunate circumstances and happy opportunities, but they will, as we all know, avail him nothing unless he makes a wise and vigorous use of them.
Considering 2008’s ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, written by Eric Roth (Munich, which was morally repugnant) and directed by David Fincher (Zodiac, which was miserable) is breathtaking and, on purely cinematic grounds, it is a grand three hours, as the tagline says, of life...
Still Haunting The World: Karl Marx and Marxism 200 Years Later
A specter continues to haunt the world, the specter of Karl Marx. Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1818, the father of twentieth century totalitarian communism, the guidebook writer of revolutionary mass-murdering dictatorship, and the inspirer of disastrous socialist central planning was born in Trier, Germany.
A Not-So Great Society: The Legacy of Lyndon Johnson
The “untouchable” entitlement programs at the heart of the current debt crisis are the outgrowths of the redistributive programs introduced by or greatly expanded during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
Why ‘Chappaquiddick’ is a Breakthrough
That this movie exists is a cinematic achievement. Whatever my criticism, whatever its flaws, the movie about an American government official's deliberate, historic conspiracy — a real, proven conspiracy of corruption, deceit and silence, ahem, Oliver Stone — to cover...
Doing Something About Mass Shootings In Schools
Organizing and signing online petitions against gun manufacturers may be emotionally gratifying but will not end gun violence.
Light ‘Argo’ Dramatizes Escape from Iran
Ben Affleck's 2012 movie, Argo, reduces the so-called Iran hostage crisis (1979-1981) to an episode of smaller proportions with satisfactory results. This isn't great cinema, and it leaves a lot of meaning, context and history out of the picture, but the docudrama, if...
What Left-Wing Educators Don’t Teach During ‘Black History Month’
A few historical and inconvenient notes left on the cutting room floor during Black History Month.
What Makes Progress Possible?
Inventing vaccines, restoring eye sight, developing new and more efficient food sources, increasing productivity, reducing poverty, all depend on human ingenuity: our exercising reason to solve problems and to create.
A “Right Side” to History? The Failure of Marx’s Predictions About Capitalism, Part 2
Those who speak about being on the “right side of history” have, knowingly or not, adopted a central element in Karl Marx’s analysis of capitalism
A “Right Side” to History? The Failure of Marx’s Predictions About Capitalism, Part 1
One of the most common phrases to be heard from those on “the left” is the assertion that someone or some public policy is or is not on “the right side of history.”
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