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  • VA Public School District Wants Teachers to Enforce ‘Woke’ Revolution, or Else

    VA Public School District Wants Teachers to Enforce ‘Woke’ Revolution, or Else0

    What has gotten into the water in Virginia? The commonwealth has quickly gone from a purple-state battleground to embracing a kind of left-wing extremism that makes California seem almost normal by comparison. The latest insanity comes from Loudoun County, where the school board is set to vote on a radical new code of conduct policy

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  • UVA President Gets in Trouble for Quoting… Jefferson?

    UVA President Gets in Trouble for Quoting… Jefferson?0

    I’m convinced our higher education system has lost just about every shred of common sense it had. Sure, there are pockets here and there, but that seems to be the exception rather than the norm. The latest example of this lack of common sense occurred the other day at the University of Virginia. In an

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  • Utopia is a Dangerous Ideal: We Should Aim for ‘Protopia’

    Utopia is a Dangerous Ideal: We Should Aim for ‘Protopia’1

    Utopias are idealised visions of a perfect society. Utopianisms are those ideas put into practice. This is where the trouble begins. Thomas More coined the neologism utopia for his 1516 work that launched the modern genre for a good reason. The word means ‘no place’ because when imperfect humans attempt perfectibility – personal, political, economic

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  • Utah Gives Parents the Right to Parent

    Utah Gives Parents the Right to Parent0

    For parents in Utah, it is now legal for their children to walk or bike to and from school without an accompanying adult. They can also let their kids play outside unsupervised, and be allowed to stay at home unattended. These newfound freedoms are the result of the “Free-Range Parenting Bill,” unanimously passed by the

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  • Using the National Anthem and U.S. Flag to Protest is Not Helpful

    Using the National Anthem and U.S. Flag to Protest is Not Helpful0

    How this all started and how it escalated is less important than the weekend blowup that engulfed America, when average folks count on taking a break from tensions of the week at work and in the news and enjoy the diversion of sports events. Now it’s all blurring together and social tensions have invaded the

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  • Using Statistics to Get Your Way in Politics

    Using Statistics to Get Your Way in Politics0

    It is unlikely that pundits, politicians, and the general public have ever been so obsessed with numbers as they are right now. I speak, of course, of the numbers surrounding deaths and illnesses attributed to COVID-19. For months now, every new day has brought new headlines about total COVID-19 infections, total deaths, and estimates put

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