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  • English Prof: 3 Reasons College Students Can’t Write

    English Prof: 3 Reasons College Students Can’t Write1

    In recent months I’ve noticed a muted, but recurring, message emanating out of college English departments. That message comes from a few bold English professors who insist that today’s college students “can’t write a clear sentence to save their lives.” The latest to sound this alarm bell is Rick Diguette, an English professor at Georgia

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  • English Prof: ‘My Students Can’t Write to Save Their Lives’

    English Prof: ‘My Students Can’t Write to Save Their Lives’0

    By now you’ve probably heard that American students can’t write. This rumor is underscored by stats from the Nation’s Report Card, which show roughly 3 out of 4 high school seniors unable to achieve proficiency in this area. Unfortunately, that proficiency doesn’t magically improve once those students get to college, a fact which English professor

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  • Engineering Programs Are Now Teaching Social Justice

    Engineering Programs Are Now Teaching Social Justice0

    We engineers like to solve technical problems. That’s the way we think, that’s why we chose our major, that’s why we got into and stayed in engineering. There are several other reasons why we got into engineering. One of them was the absence of what I describe here as “social engineering,” where the professor/instructor is interested not

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  • Enemy of the State? Count Me In

    Enemy of the State? Count Me In1

    All my life I’ve felt a bond with places and with people. Growing up in Boonville, North Carolina, population then about 600, I went to elementary school and the Methodist church, knew many of the merchants in town—Harvey Smith, grocer and mayor for many years, Donald the barber, Mr. Weatherwax who owned the pharmacy and

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  • Ending Critical Race Theory for the Children’s Sake

    Ending Critical Race Theory for the Children’s Sake0

    A video of a white teacher from Loudon County, Virginia protesting the required Critical Race Theory (CRT) training for teachers is a highlight of Andrea Widburg’s article, “Maybe the pendulum is starting to swing on cancel culture.” Take one minute to watch this female fireball, and you’ll hear what so many of us are thinking

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  • Employers Shouldn’t Have to Hire ‘Nonbinary’ People

    Employers Shouldn’t Have to Hire ‘Nonbinary’ People5

    Unless you live under a rock, odds are you’ve heard the left claim that nonbinary people—that is, those who neither identify as male or female—face discrimination in employment. A newly published study sought to determine the accuracy of this claim. And as a consequence, it shows how a more radical application of civil rights law

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