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Minneapolis Public Schools Spend $26K Per Student Annually0
- Education
- October 16, 2020
Everyone knows that COVID has disrupted the education system like nothing else in recent memory. But as time goes on it appears that this may only be the tip of the iceberg. A recent MPR news report suggests that for Minnesota public schools, declining enrollment is worse than was ever imagined several months ago. Citing
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Let Them Call You Racist0
- Culture
- October 16, 2020
All’s fair in love and war, unless what one has to say threatens war on the beloved pieties of progressivism. Stephanie Martinez and Lauren Witzke learned this lesson recently. Martinez is a pro-Trump student at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. In early April, she joined the LMU student government as a “senator for diversity
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Four Tips for Teaching Kids to Put Away Their Toys0
- Family
- October 16, 2020
Kids today have too many toys. All parents, no matter their parenting philosophy, can agree on that. The effect of those toys on the home environment can be utter chaos. An immaculate living room can be ruined within five minutes of children being turned loose to play. “Toddlers have an incredible capacity to make a mess;
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Elon Musk on Lockdowns: ‘Sweden Was Right’0
- Politics
- October 16, 2020
When people think of polarizing countries, Sweden rarely leaps to mind. At least that was the case before 2020. Sweden’s decision to take a “lighter touch” to the coronavirus pandemic – foregoing strict lockdowns and relying primarily on social responsibility to encourage social distancing – has made it a lighting rod for criticism. Many commentators
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The Exceptional Catalog of American Polling Failures0
- History
- October 15, 2020
The question looms in nearly every U.S. presidential election, even in this year’s race: Could the polls be wrong? If they are, they likely will err in unique fashion. The history of election polling says as much. That history tells of no greater polling surprise than what happened in 1948, when President Harry Truman defied
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Systemic Pride Is the Problem0
- Culture
- October 15, 2020
We live in strange times in which we have become obsessed with race to such a degree that skin color has become the determinant of all moral rectitude. If we were “fortunate” enough to be born with white skin, we are guilty of “privilege” which is systemically racist; if we were “unfortunate” enough to be
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New Study Pegs COVID-19 Crisis Costs at $16 Trillion—So Far0
- Economics
- October 15, 2020
Estimated costs of the coronavirus pandemic are in. The results are not pretty. A new study co-authored by Harvard economist David M. Cutler and former World Bank chief economist Lawrence H. Summers places the costs of the COVID-19 pandemic north of $16 trillion. “The estimated cumulative financial costs of the COVID-19 pandemic related to the
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Busted? Burisma, the Bidens, and Corruption in Our Land0
- Politics
- October 15, 2020
On Wednesday October 14, the New York Post broke a story of political scandal that might have come straight out of Hollywood. In April 2019, an unidentified man, perhaps Hunter Biden, delivered a water-damaged computer to a repair shop in Biden’s home state of Delaware in hopes of having it restored. He left without paying for this service. Once
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Breaking Free From the Epidemic of Listless School Children0
- Education
- October 15, 2020
My neighbors, intrepidly homeschooling since the arrival of COVID, came to my door the other day and dropped off a craft they made as part of their studies on a certain mammal. Given the subject of the craft, it was clear they were exploring things their children were interested in, asking questions about, and seeking
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