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Fired for Accidentally Using Wrong Pronouns, Teacher Takes Case to Court 0
- Culture
- August 18, 2020
Peter Vlaming has two great passions – teaching and French. But a Virginia school district stripped the French teacher of the ability to impart these passions in high school classrooms when it fired him for not using pronouns preferred by a transgender student. “I explained to my principal that I couldn’t in good conscience pronounce
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Cancel Culture Is Undermining Learning and Harming Students Like Me 0
- Education
- August 18, 2020
In my tenth grade English class, just like many other American students, I read some of the works of the late Joseph Conrad, an unbounded explorer and captivating writer. But my class did not analyze Conrad’s books as my father or grandfather did when they were my age. Instead of discussing how his works shaped
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When Half Of NYC’s Tax Base Leaves And Never Comes Back 0
- Economics
- August 18, 2020
The separateness in New York, and by extension much of the nation curled around it from America’s eastern edge, stands out. There are the hyper-wealthy and there are the multi-generational poor. They depend on each other, but with COVID who needs who more has changed. It’s easy to stress how far apart the rich and
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Hand-In-Hand: Bad Programs, Wasted Money, and Our Government 0
- Economics
- August 18, 2020
Ronald Reagan once famously said, “I think you all know that I’ve always felt the nine most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” That baseball team of words should continue to terrify us. When we look at government failures in the last 50 years, the list
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Andrew Cuomo’s DNC Speech Was a Travesty of Errors 0
- Politics
- August 18, 2020
Many political speeches are full of imprecise rhetoric and easily disproven statements. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s speech to the Democratic National Convention Monday night is one such speech. Here are six of the governor’s statements, dissected for your morbid reading pleasure. Number One “New Yorkers were ground zero for the COVID virus and have gone from
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What Will Not Recover: Government 0
- Culture
- August 17, 2020
What becomes of government credibility in the post-lockdown period? There are thousands of politicians in this country for whom this is a chilling question, even a taboo topic. The reputation of government was already at postwar lows before the lockdowns, with only 17 percent of the American public saying that they trusted government to do
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