The proper evaluation of the United States in relation to slavery is this: ending slavery by fighting and winning the Civil War was a tremendous moral achievement and should be celebrated.
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The False Premises Behind “Giving Back”
The implicit motive of the “payback concept” is to help you reduce your feelings of guilt for allegedly unearned personal achievement and pride. But why would you feel such guilt?
Don’t Let Them Memory-Hole The Totalitarian Lockdowns of 2020
We are seeing a real-time example of how history is really written. The narrative is more self-serving than we knew. If all the power centers in society get something tremendously wrong, an informal conspiracy of silence develops around it, with the hope of just wiping it from the history books.
What the Bud Light Fiasco Reveals about the Ruling Class
They want the whole world to be their own safe space regardless of the victims.
Stop Bleeding Taxpayers to Cover Unpaid Student Loans
I have argued many times that the federal government should not be in the business of lending money for college (nor for any other reason), but as long as we have student loans, we should limit the losses by requiring that someone other than the students be responsible for their debts. That party should be the college itself.
Education Cannot Be Improved by Simply Giving Public Schools More Money
So, what could we do to improve education? Here are some ideas.
Capitalism and The Exploitation of Third World Countries
To then accuse capitalism of causing the poverty — while in the very act of eradicating it — is to commit both a historical error and a profound injustice.
Ron DeSantis on Florida’s Covid Response
Ron DeSantis new book The Courage to Be Free: Florida’s Blueprint for America’s Revival explains the backstory to his response and reveals the intense pressures he faced at the time, including the scientific influences that drove his decision-making.
Let’s Create Opportunities for All Texas Students
Freedom enables opportunities. School choice creates more freedom for parents and students.
U.S. Department of Education’s College Loan “Income Driven Repayment Policy”
Department of Education’s “improvements” to its student loan program will encourage colleges to increase tuition, creates a strong incentive to borrow as much as possible for college, and reduce the level of effort that students put into their college work.
The 1517 Fund: An Apostate Indicts Our Educational System
So, what is the 1517 Fund? It is Gibson’s way of finding young people who have ideas and want to put them into effect without the long, expensive detour through college.
Government vs Private Schools: Better by What Standard?
It is time to enable parents to have the freedom to choose the school for their children through school choice.
The Real Purpose of Drag Queen Story Hour
The purpose is to turn children “queer” through an educational process.
Virginia Postrel’s “The Future and Its Enemies: The Growing Conflict over Creativity, Enterprise, and Progress” at 25
Dynamists and stasists have radically different visions of how the world works, or should work.
Some Comments on the Issue of American Slavery
Condemning slavery is morally right. Slavery is an evil institution because it is a total violation of individual rights. However, before one judges America and its founding fathers, it is important to be aware of history.
A Key Lesson in Education Policy: You Don’t Make Peace with Termites
Two neighboring states, Florida and Georgia, show how and how not to deal with the “termite” problem of Leftist education control.
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
It is rare that a book can objectively present the facts and then draw all of the wrong conclusions. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2017, is one such book.
Highway Heist: Do Our Roads Have to be Built by Government?
Roads don’t have to be built by government, and we would be better off if we had left it to private enterprise and voluntary cooperation.
Don’t Confuse School Choice with Educational Freedom
While school choice isn’t the ideal, it isn’t a compromise to supports such policies.
Montessori Organization Debunks Thanksgiving Story
Why is there this constant attempt to deny the past?
Joseph Ladapo: Hero of the Pandemic
What we learn from Joseph Ladapo’s book “Transcend Fear” is that he has been a warrior against pseudoscience from the very beginning of this pandemic.
The Meaning of the Invasion of Art Galleries
The meaning was an attack on values as such. As Ayn Rand says in the Romantic Manifesto, art connects to one’s deepest, metaphysical values.
Gone Viral: How Covid Drove the World Insane
I would rank Justin Hart’s book among those that should be considered a staple reading on the covid epoch. It’s as much a medical and political history as it is a psychological study in mass hysteria.
Is the Wealth of American Capitalism the Result of Slavery?
“No, Sarah, Our Prosperity Wasn’t Extracted from Slaves”
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