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Why Do Reading Scores Keep Declining?
- Culture, Education, Featured, Politics, Western Civilization
- May 20, 2026






If you’re going to kill yourself, you’re also going to kill the people who love you. ~
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This week an older reader, Ed, sent me an email lamenting the current state of education in our country. He gave several examples, including “I remember when I was about nine years old, my dad who didn’t finish the Sixth Grade had to help my brother with Eighth Grade spelling.” Ed’s email took me back
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Many years ago, my family was partway through dinner on a Monday night when there was a knock at the door. Answering it, my father found – to his great surprise – one of the gubernatorial candidates for our state. This candidate was locked in a close primary battle, and, discovering he had some extra
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When I was a kid, I used to love the show “Fraggle Rock.” A creation of “The Muppets’” Jim Henson, it detailed the underground life of the Fraggles. These furry imaginary creatures lived alongside the dutiful Doozers, who quietly built their elaborate, edible constructions. The Doozers built and the Fraggles ate, without any apparent hard
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As I read through a recent Pew Research Center report detailing America’s dreary numbers regarding single-parent households, I came to a section on aging and living alone. Because I am doing both – collecting Social Security and living by myself in a place where I have few friends or family – I read this section with great
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Although it is a recent phenomenon, global immediacy is skewing our sense of justice. The distance between countries is now bridged by our smartphones and we’re becoming a culture able to rattle off foreign leaders while clueless about the names of our own local mayors. The hyperconnectivity of the 21st century keeps us tuned in
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