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  • What the Homeschooling Surge Reveals About Compulsory Education

    What the Homeschooling Surge Reveals About Compulsory Education0

    My sixth-grade visit to the Pavek Museum of broadcasting was the most memorable field trip of elementary school. The live radio broadcast my fellow students and I produced while there was probably why. As part of the broadcast, several students were instructed to write a news bulletin. The gist of it? The governor of Minnesota

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  • What the Holes in the Fossil Record Can Tell Us

    What the Holes in the Fossil Record Can Tell Us0

    The coelacanths are an ancient group of lobe-finned fishes, with weird appendages that take the form of bony, fleshy, muscular stalks. They’re well-represented in the fossil record all the way back to the Devonian period, some 390 million years ago. However, about 66 million years ago – the time of the dinosaurs’ demise – coelacanths

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  • What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong

    What the Founding Fathers Got Wrong0

    By any objective standard, it would be difficult to claim that the Constitution really matters at any practical level in the United States. At a symbolic level, it still means a great deal. But, what a disconnect: that it matters so much in our minds and language but that it means nothing in our day-to-day

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  • What the Founders Understood About Religious Freedom That We Must Recover

    What the Founders Understood About Religious Freedom That We Must Recover0

    Friday, Dec. 15, marks the anniversary of the day our young nation ratified the Bill of Rights in 1791. Given the national discussion in recent days over whether the government may compel speech from an ordinary baker, now is an especially good time to consider the very first words of our charter document: “Congress shall

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  • What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery

    What the Founders Actually Thought About Slavery0

    One of the ironies of the current American “elite” is that, rather than actually being elite, they have the smug self-assurance of knowing much that isn’t so. Recently, a video surfaced of South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg, a Harvard University graduate and Rhodes scholar, explaining to a group of high school students why the

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  • What the Fake History of Guns Can Teach Us

    What the Fake History of Guns Can Teach Us0

    In 2000, Emory University history professor Michael Bellesiles published the book Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. The central argument of the book was that the culture of American gun ownership does not date back to the colonial era and, instead, emerged in the middle of the nineteenth century when technological advances made

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