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  • ‘Worst Teachers in the System’ Set to Join Struggling Schools, Principal Says

    ‘Worst Teachers in the System’ Set to Join Struggling Schools, Principal Says0

    We’ve probably all heard some type of rumor about “rubber rooms” before. They’re the hangout of those in the Absent Teacher Reserve pool, a group of New York teachers who haven’t been assigned to an official position in a classroom, and instead remain in a paid, “on-call” type of status. This status originally came about

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  • ‘Woke’ Tour Guides Now Mangle History at Monticello

    ‘Woke’ Tour Guides Now Mangle History at Monticello12

    The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. Substitute “Jefferson” for “Caesar” in Marc Anthony’s funeral speech, and you have a tidy summation of the guided “woke” tours at Thomas Jefferson’s home, Monticello. On July 5th—the day after our nation once

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  • ‘Wimpy Kid’ Author Explains Why Today’s Kids Can’t Hold Conversations

    ‘Wimpy Kid’ Author Explains Why Today’s Kids Can’t Hold Conversations0

    When it comes to some of the most popular reading material for today’s kids, the Diary of a Wimpy Kid collection dominates the list. Written by Jeff Kinney, the series follows the ups and downs of middle school life for the fictitious Greg Heffley. Regardless of how one views the literary quality of the Wimpy

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  • ‘Why are we so miserable?’

    ‘Why are we so miserable?’0

    Over at Crisis Magazine, Professor Anne Maloney, who teaches philosophy at the College of St. Catherine in St. Paul, Minnesota, shared some of what she’s seen happening to young women on college campuses with the advent of the hook-up culture. If it’s an indication of what’s happening more broadly, we may want to start questioning

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  • ‘White People’ is a Surprisingly Modern Term

    ‘White People’ is a Surprisingly Modern Term0

    The Jacobean playwright Thomas Middleton invented the concept of ‘white people’ on 29 October 1613, the date that his play The Triumphs of Truth was first performed. The phrase was first uttered by the character of an African king who looks out upon an English audience and declares: ‘I see amazement set upon the faces/Of

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  • ‘White America’: Eminem channels Christopher Lasch

    ‘White America’: Eminem channels Christopher Lasch0

    You know Eminem, but do you know Christopher Lasch? He was one of the more brilliant political philosophers of the 20th century and seemingly spot on in his book The Culture of Narcissism. I was reminded of that when in the same day I watched Eminem’s White America music video and then skimmed The Culture of

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