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  • Incoming College Students Unable To Do Basic Math After Pandemic

    Incoming College Students Unable To Do Basic Math After Pandemic1

    Incoming students are often unable to do basic math at colleges across America. Many of them failed to learn the basics during COVID-19 lockdowns or even forgot some of what they previously learned. Math professors say freshmen cannot do basic things such as subtracting a positive number from a negative number or adding two fractions,

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  • Is Covidocracy Making a Comeback?

    Is Covidocracy Making a Comeback?0

    On September 6, the White House announced that twice-vaccinated, twice-boosted Jill Biden has COVID-19—for a second time. President Joe Biden tested negative but will begin masking again, the administration also confirmed. A day later, co-host of The View Whoopi Goldberg was missing from the show, having also come down with the virus. Coinciding with these

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  • School Wars: A Battle Plan for Parents

    School Wars: A Battle Plan for Parents0

    Yellow buses are rolling again across the countryside, which means the culture wars in our schools are cranking up as well. Key to understanding these conflicts is this question: Who is primarily responsible for a child’s education and welfare, the state or the parents? California continues to lead the nation in attacking parental rights while

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  • Oliver Anthony and Longing for a Lost America

    Oliver Anthony and Longing for a Lost America1

    Why do Oliver Anthony’s songs resonate with so many people in America? As a good friend of mine recently commented, “We have an obsession with authenticity.” He said that Oliver Anthony originally recorded his songs on his $200 phone. Whether that statement is factually correct or not, it is emblematic of what Oliver has come

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  • The DEI Racket Transformed Our Colleges, Universities. But Tide Could Be Turning.

    The DEI Racket Transformed Our Colleges, Universities. But Tide Could Be Turning.0

    College campuses have been dominated by the Left for generations. That’s hardly news to anyone. But a recent news report sheds light on how higher education has been transformed from a general haven of left-wing ideology into an engine of radicalism and revolution in the name of DEI: diversity, equity, and inclusion. The lengthy report in

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  • The Importance of Making Mistakes

    The Importance of Making Mistakes1

    A couple of years ago, I received a post-semester email from a student’s father. He was upset about his child’s final grade in my class, which had landed somewhere between a high B and a low A. The grade was clearly not very low, but the student’s father wanted me to reconsider. Apparently, a specific

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