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What’s Really Wrong with American Schools 0
- Education
- February 7, 2017
With the confirmation of Betsy DeVos to head the U.S. Department of Education, it’s a good time to think about what’s wrong with our schools and what will have to be done to fix them. DeVos is most notable for her efforts in support of school choice. School choice is important, but it is only
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The NEA’s 14 Principles–From 1908 0
- Culture
- February 7, 2017
Have you ever wondered what the Nation’s largest teacher union (the National Education Association or the NEA) thinks about religion, the Bible, and character education? I honestly don’t think I’d ever given it much thought until the other day when I unearthed a set of the organization’s 14 principles from 1908. They were so surprising
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Our So-Called ‘Tolerant’ Society Is Actually Very Dogmatic 0
- Culture
- February 6, 2017
The Book of Daniel tells us that the three Jewish youths in Babylon were cast into a “white-hot furnace” for not falling down and worshipping the king’s golden statue. Thousands of early Christians were reportedly martyred for refusing to deny Christ and affirm the divinity of the Roman emperor. Of course, this kind of thing
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Immigration Lessons for President Trump from Thomas Aquinas 0
- Culture
- February 6, 2017
I am grateful to The Imaginative Conservative for publishing Fr. Dwight Longenecker’s reasoned defence of President Trump’s executive order placing a ninety day moratorium on immigration from countries deemed to pose a terrorist threat to the United States. I am grateful also for a recent essay by John Horvat II in which Mr. Horvat discusses what
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Liberals Have Become the New Confederates 0
- History
- February 6, 2017
“The South will rise again.” How often did that rallying cry echo throughout a certain portion of the country following the Civil War? A lot. Actually, the South has risen in any number of very positive ways in the century and a half since that terrible, but terribly necessary, war. This is especially true in
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The Civics Lessons They Never Teach Anymore 0
- Culture
- February 6, 2017
Following Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court, my morning commute was wall-to-wall with it, including plenty of weasel words (e.g., Senator Schumer’s fixation on tarring him as “outside the mainstream”) and heat (e.g., Congresswoman Pelosi’s assertion it was “a very hostile appointment”). One talking head quipped that the acute divide was because Americans weren’t
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