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California Overhauls its K-12 History Curricula 0
- Culture
- August 4, 2016
When it comes to education, summer is normally a downtime of rest and relaxation. That’s not the case, however, for California’s Department of Education. According to The Sacramento Bee, the state just released their newly rewritten history standards – standards which will likely be adopted by many of the other 49 states. So what exactly
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The Student Debt Crisis is Real 0
- Economics
- August 4, 2016
Normally, leftists get upset if there’s a big industry that charges high prices, engages in lots of featherbedding, and manipulates the political system for handouts. But for some reason, when the industry is higher education, folks like Hillary Clinton think the answer is to shower colleges and universities with ever-greater subsidies. She says the subsidies are
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Constitution at stake in this year’s election?0
- Politics
- August 4, 2016
If Senate Republicans are true to their word, the next president of the United States will nominate Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement. Given the age of several other members of the Supreme Court and rumors of others’ retirement, it is likely the next president will make as many as four nominations. This potentially dramatic change in
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Are we living in Mill’s ‘Stationary State’?0
- History
- August 4, 2016
John Stuart Mill was a progressive in many ways. The English philosopher was a proponent of Benthem’s theory of utilitarianism, an abolitionist, and a feminist. (In fact, he was the first Member of Parliament to advocate women’s suffrage.) But Mill parted ways with other prominent thinkers—Marx and Nicolas Condorcet, among them—whose philosophies embraced man’s indefinite
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Why is the swear ‘c*nt’ way more offensive than ‘d*ck’?0
- Culture
- August 4, 2016
Donald Trump was called a “loud mouth dick” on CNN last night, as most people have probably heard by now. It was not bleeped out, and Anderson Cooper didn’t miss a beat. CNN has not issued an apology. The naughty word was uttered by Liz Mair, a political and communications consultant mostly famous for going
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The Arrogant Ignorance of the ‘Well-Educated’0
- Education
- August 3, 2016
On more than one occasion my essays for The Imaginative Conservative have been inspired by bumper stickers. Many moons ago, for instance, I wrote “The Wisdom and Wickedness of Women” in response to seeing a bumper sticker declaring that “Well Behaved Women Do Not Make History.” Recently, sitting in traffic, I saw this very same bumper sticker on
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California Overhauls its K-12 History Curricula 0