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Why MIT Is Reinstating Its SAT/ACT Requirement0
- Education
- March 31, 2022
In case you missed it, on Monday MIT announced that they would be reinstating their SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles. Like many universities, MIT had ditched the tests during the pandemic. Even prior to the pandemic, however, there had been a widespread push to abandon these tests to enhance diversity. “Data shows tests like
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How Parents Can Fight and Defeat Critical Race Theory1
- Culture
- March 31, 2022
Five years ago, hardly anyone knew what Critical Race Theory (CRT) was, but now the phrase is a common one in American households. The Marxist-based theory advocating a race-essentialist approach to education, law, public policy, and even health care, seeks to deconstruct the foundations of society and rebuild it as “antiracist,” while discriminating against whites
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Will and Kate’s Tour Hides the Real Problem With Jamaican Government1
- History
- March 30, 2022
Great Britain’s Prince William and his wife, Kate Middleton, recently concluded a tour of the Caribbean to celebrate Queen Elizabeth’s platinum jubilee. Though the visit was slated to be a cordial event, William and Kate were greeted with hostility by Jamaican politicians and protesters who denounced Britain’s involvement in the slave trade and colonialism. International
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Never Forgotten: The Lies About Terri Schiavo1
- Family
- March 30, 2022
This week marks the 17th anniversary of the court-sanctioned murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo. Under the order of a Florida judge who never bothered to visit her and an adulterous spouse-in-name-only who ranted “When is that b—- gonna die?” to one of Terri’s nurses, American legal and medical authorities supervised the cruel, two-week-long starvation and
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The Exodus From U.S. Cities Is Gaining Speed, New Census Data Show6
- Culture
- March 29, 2022
America’s largest metro areas saw massive declines in population, new U.S. Census Bureau data show. Three of the top five metros that saw sharp declines between July 1, 2020, and July 1, 2021 were in California. Leading the way was the Los Angeles-Long Beach metropolitan area, which lost 176,000 residents, a 1.3 percent drop. Next
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Let’s Bring Back the Chief and Stop Littering0
- Culture
- March 29, 2022
On a recent trip from Virginia to Indiana, the friend who was driving me commented on the trash alongside the expressways. With the exception of Route 30’s lightly traveled parts, he was right. Plastic bags, fast-food wrappers, beer bottles, and other debris uglified the roadways. The motel where we stayed
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Asia’s Autocrats Are Calling, Mr. Biden0
- International
- March 29, 2022
While President Joe Biden was in Brussels and Warsaw showing U.S. solidarity with Ukraine, the 38-year-old autocrat who rules North Korea made a bold bid for the president’s attention. For the first time since 2017, Kim Jong Un test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile, the Hwasong-17, the largest road-mobile missile ever launched. While it flew 600
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Petulant Students Do Not a Utopia Make0
- Culture
- March 28, 2022
For several years, tantrums over allegedly unacceptable speakers were par for the course on college campuses. While the pandemic quelled the noise of these protests for a while, the recent revival of classes and extracurricular activities on campuses promises to kick the canceling back into high gear. In fact, it has already begun. Exhibit A
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The Unwanted Visitor Coming to Breakfast0
- Culture
- March 25, 2022
An aged Indian, an elderly woman, and her granddaughter are prisoners of a band of Comancheros in the film The Outlaw Josey Wales. The old woman, dragged behind a wagon, is almost dead from exhaustion when the chief notices Josey Wales (Clint Eastwood) watching them from a nearby hill. “Get ready, little lady,” he says.
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