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  • Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem

    Fear of Crime Is the Real Problem1

    Crime is back in the news and hardly a day now passes without headlines about shootings at largely peaceful funerals and all the rest. The obvious question is whether this soaring criminality will render big cities like New York City unlivable—a return to when movie audiences cheered Charles Bronson in Death Wish. Today’s crime is deceptively

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  • Don’t Look to School to Improve Children’s Reading

    Don’t Look to School to Improve Children’s Reading0

    There’s always a silver lining, even in the dreadful lockdowns the world endured during COVID-19. One of these little glimmers of light surfaced recently in a Guardian article about children who, locked out of in-person classes, dove deeper into reading. Citing a Renaissance Learning report, the Guardian noted that “compared with the previous year, children

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  • Innocence Lost: Our Children and Pornography

    Innocence Lost: Our Children and Pornography0

    Though I’ve practiced several vices in my time, pornography was not one of them. I grew up in a town and a time when I didn’t even know the meaning of that word. At the private school I attended in seventh and eighth grade, 200 miles from home, one kid used to smuggle Playboy magazines into the

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  • Explaining Minnesota’s Radical Political Nature

    Explaining Minnesota’s Radical Political Nature0

    As recent events have caused the eyes of the nation and the world to focus on Minnesota, a question I’ve wondered about has resurfaced: Why is Minnesota so politically radical? That Minnesota’s politics are radical is seen in a simple survey of the state’s prominent politicians. Both of Minnesota’s two U.S. Senators, Amy Klobuchar and

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  • Biden vs. Biden on ‘Is America a Racist Country?’

    Biden vs. Biden on ‘Is America a Racist Country?’0

    “Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country.” So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, in his televised rebuttal to Joe Biden’s address to Congress. Asked the next day what he thought of Scott’s statement, Biden said he agrees. “No, I don’t think the American people are racist.” Vice President Kamala Harris also

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  • It’s Time to ‘Decolonize’ Government Schools

    It’s Time to ‘Decolonize’ Government Schools0

    After nearly 100 days in office, President Joe Biden made his first speech to Congress last week, introducing a new program entitled the American Families Plan. For the unsuspecting, Biden’s plan may seem kind and caring. Education, affordable childcare, paid medical leave, and financial benefits all appear to help young couples in their quest to

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  • A Memo From Privilege University’s Diversity Offices

    A Memo From Privilege University’s Diversity Offices0

    Dear Colleagues, A Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable day to you! The leadership team here at PU’s Diversity/Inclusion/Equity (DIE) Office is pleased that so many of you have adopted the practice of land acknowledgment in your email signatures, as demonstrated by the following model statement from a colleague: In community and solidarity, Dr. Margaret “Marge” N. Alisación, Ph. D.

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  • Mexico’s Supreme Court Changes Provide a Warning for America

    Mexico’s Supreme Court Changes Provide a Warning for America0

    There seems to be a new trend that when a new leftist government is elected it attempts to change or undermine its country’s court system to remove it as a barrier to consolidating power. During the U.S. election cycle, there was much talk of how an incoming Democratic administration might reshape the Supreme Court. Thus

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  • Biden Bets the Farm—to ‘Change the World’

    Biden Bets the Farm—to ‘Change the World’0

    Joe Biden may not be a radical socialist, but he is doing the best imitation of one this writer has lately seen. After enacting a COVID-19 relief package of $1.9 trillion in March without a single Republican vote in Congress, Biden proposed a jobs and infrastructure program of $2.2 trillion. He has now added an

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