As early as 1899, students of Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, a black public school in Washington, D.C., scored higher on citywide tests than any of the city’s white schools. From its founding in 1870 to 1955, most of its graduates went off to college.
It is vital for the history of socialism not to be forgotten by those fortunate enough not to live under its reality of terror, tyranny, and social disaster, less history tragically repeat itself.
Hannah-Jones’s behavior illustrates the absence of basic scholarly integrity from her approach to writing history.
Tenure is at best a mixed bag – sometimes it protects the already-employed, but at other times it means that candidates with unpopular views are never offered employment or promotion in the first place.
Ray Dalio analyzes five centuries of markets, currency collapses, and changes to the world financial and political order.
This essay will serve as the first entry in a series of essays in which I will be looking at the work of three major twentieth-century philosophers; Friederich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Ayn Rand.
What is it that the “woke” believe?
Thanksgiving celebrates man’s ability to produce.
When governments abrogate parents’ right to choose, they instigate conflict between parents and teachers.
Parents are increasingly demanding freedom of choice in education.
Europe’s immigration failures — enabled by denial and appeasement — are symptoms of a moral-intellectual vacuum.
Why don’t some people get vaccinated? The fundamental cause is the refusal to think.
I remember that day so well, too well. It is almost like it was yesterday.
The Open Syllabus Project shows that Karl Marx is the most assigned political philosopher on college campuses. That’s a problem.
New ARI Book Examines What Went Wrong After 9/11
It is time for advocates of capitalism to come out of the closet.
Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics is an exhaustive defense of laissez-faire capitalism as prerequisite for continued progress of material civilization.
Instead of workshops on social justice topics, Montessori organizations should feature seminars on the value and role of the individual in eliminating racism, and should glorify and celebrate the fact that the Montessori Method is based on individualism.
“The lesson of history,” Ferguson eagerly argues, “is that biological and political contagions often coincide.”
The theme of Jesse Singal’s book, The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills, is that many psychological theories that have promised a quick fix for various social problems have not lived up to their hype. Singal does a very good expose, although there is more to be said in some cases. I will make brief comments on each chapter.
We know from Atlas Shrugged, and many other Ayn Rand writings, that capitalists are egoists. They trade to make a profit, and this is morally admirable. They are wealth creators. But it is important not to forget that customers and employees are egoists too.
If you want to lead a successful life, our most urgent advice to you is to reject your professors’ assaults on reason and individualism.
“Forgive student loans” really means workers must pay for privileged students who don’t.
Imbue your child not with the dangers of the world, but with the factful progress of the world.
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