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  • How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?

    How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?1

    In 1942, there were 108,579 public school districts in the United States. By the 2020-21 school year, there were only 13,187. That massive consolidation of school districts was propelled by the belief that economies of scale created by larger school districts would lower costs and serve students better. Those presumed efficiencies have not, however, been demonstrated in practice.

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  • How Can Children Believe that Santa Claus Exists?

    How Can Children Believe that Santa Claus Exists?0

    The holiday season is upon us, and so are its attendant myths, most prominent of which is the Santa Claus story. This is the time that many children are told about a man who lives forever, resides at the North Pole, knows what every child in the world desires, drives a sleigh pulled by flying

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  • How California’s New Boardroom Gender Equity Law Demeans Women

    How California’s New Boardroom Gender Equity Law Demeans Women0

    As a working woman, I’m offended by California’s new law requiring corporate boards to consist of up to half female members by 2021. Proponents of the law praise it as “glass ceiling-shattering.” But having the ceiling dropped down on women through mandatory gender quotas is hardly the same feat as climbing to new heights on their own

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  • How California Is Turning Into a State Governed by Identity Politics

    How California Is Turning Into a State Governed by Identity Politics0

    If you thought racial identity politics were just a fleeting flirtation of the radical left, California’s new laws suggest otherwise. On Sept. 30, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into state law a bill setting up a nine-member board to study the amount of reparations that should be owed to black people for slavery and Jim

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  • How C.S. Lewis Would Tell Us to Handle Coronavirus

    How C.S. Lewis Would Tell Us to Handle Coronavirus0

    Last week I saw a C.S. Lewis quote shared on social media. I’d seen this quote from his essay “On Living in an Atomic Age” before, but shrugged it off as a nice thought that didn’t really apply any more. Never mind. Swap out “atomic bomb” for “coronavirus” and the relevance of the quote becomes

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  • How C.S. Lewis Predicted the PC War on Literature

    How C.S. Lewis Predicted the PC War on Literature0

    What makes for a good book? There are many possible answers: beautiful prose, interesting characters, a well-crafted plot, and so on, all of which contribute to literature’s power to make us feel or experience things in new and different ways. For some, though, a good book is one that aligns perfectly with the reader’s political

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