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  • Milton Friedman Was Right to Call Them ‘Government Schools’

    Milton Friedman Was Right to Call Them ‘Government Schools’0

    Today is Milton Friedman’s birthday. He was the 1976 Nobel-prize winning economist who promoted free-market ideals and limited government. The Economist called him “the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century…possibly of all of it.” He died in 2006, but one of his lasting legacies is EdChoice, formerly the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice,

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  • Quiet Courage, Not Machismo, is What Makes ‘Dunkirk’ So Compelling

    Quiet Courage, Not Machismo, is What Makes ‘Dunkirk’ So Compelling0

    The story of Dunkirk is remarkable. Civilians sailed their fishing boats, pleasure yachts, and trawlers across the English Channel to France to attempt a rescue mission for 400,000 British and French soldiers encircled by Hitler’s Wehrmacht—the German army—in 1940. If those men were captured, England would have effectively been knocked out of the war. In

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  • The Confusing Logic of Gender Ideology: A Quiz

    The Confusing Logic of Gender Ideology: A Quiz0

    No one should accept the new transgender ideology unless he can answer the following 10 questions with answers that actually make sense: 1. If it is “impossible for a man to feel what a woman feels” (as men are often told), then how could a man ever “transition” to a woman because he “feels like

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  • Why Freshman Comp Students Struggle to Get an ‘A’

    Why Freshman Comp Students Struggle to Get an ‘A’0

    So you think you might like teaching college English. You love the language and its great works. Lots of people are like that, including me. Good, but beware. Teaching college English, especially freshman comp, is not for the faint-hearted. If you are drawn to the profession by the joys you experienced in grad school reading

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  • African Americans Speak for Themselves: Most Want School Choice

    African Americans Speak for Themselves: Most Want School Choice0

    Private school choice is the work of racists. That message, it seems increasingly clear, is going to be a major weapon wielded by opponents of educational freedom for the foreseeable future. It is the explicit contention of a new Center for American Progress report, The Racist Origins of Private School Vouchers, and of Randi Weingarten, President

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  • Why First World Countries Have Third World Cities

    Why First World Countries Have Third World Cities0

    As I avoided the potholes, ignored the sounds of guns, and walked past beggars throughout the streets of New Orleans, I could not help but be reminded of my travels in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. With their mass poverty and crumbling infrastructure, the two cities differ in one key area: Phnom Penh is in a developing

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