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Let’s Hear it for Risky Playgrounds 0
- Culture
- November 5, 2021
Germany is adding MORE RISK to its playgrounds. Some of its climbing structures are now three stories high. And who is requesting this? Insurance companies! They want kids to grow up “risk competent.” Ironically, “safety” culture is stunting kids’ risk assessing abilities. “This is fantastic progress in understanding childhood as the right time for children
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This Is Why I Ran 0
- Education
- November 4, 2021
During and after my unsuccessful eight-week campaign for governor of California, I received many letters and tried to reply to as many as I could. These stood out. Dear Mr. Elder, Hi, my name is Henrique Del Monte (not his real name) and I am incarcerated at Corcoran State Prison (in California), where I am
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Twitter’s COVID Propaganda Campaign 0
- Politics
- November 4, 2021
If you want a glimpse of modern propaganda at work, you need look no further than the trends that grace the Twitter sidebar. I started watching them more seriously a few months ago when some of the headlines about COVID-related issues sounded far more certain—or perhaps arrogant is the better word—than it seemed they plausibly
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Glenn Youngkin’s Simple Playbook for Winning Virginia 0
- Education
- November 3, 2021
In the aftermath of Glenn Youngkin’s win in the Virginia gubernatorial race, the victorious Republican appears to have written the playbook for the resurgence of his party. Youngkin taught three lessons in his victorious schooling of Democrat Terry McAuliffe. Lesson number one: Campaign on issues people care about. Virginians cared about education, they cared about
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I Was Fired From My Teaching Job for Refusing to Get Vaccinated 0
- Economics
- November 2, 2021
Until recently, I was a California teacher working in two charter schools, one as a full-time classroom teacher of Government/Economics and sometimes U.S. History, and the other as a part-time independent study teacher who assists families with a program primarily based around homeschooling. I have taught for about five years and love teaching. Last week,
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Fighting the Woke Asylum Through Natural Law 0
- Literature
- November 2, 2021
“Academics repeatedly declare the natural law to be dead,” observed former Notre Dame law professor Anton-Hermann Chroust. “But every twenty-five years or so it comes in again by the back door when some crisis shows the failure of utilitarian positivism.” America seems to be at such a crisis point, with the dominance of “wokeism” and the
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