Education

175+ Traditionalist Books for Your Kids You’ve Never Heard Of 4
- Family, Education, Featured, MomThink
- March 5, 2024
Your kids are (finally!) reading on their own . . . Now what? Well, now is when we parents face the often-herculean task of trying to verify which books are safe and fit for our kids to read—not to mention supportive of traditional values! I’d like to offer a list of some favorite young adult
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ChatGPT Can Get Off My Lawn 4
- Education
- February 27, 2024
Will artificial intelligence become the greatest boon to higher education since online learning? (This assumes that online learning was a boon, which is a topic for another day.) Or will it mean the utter destruction of academia as we know it? Those are the two views I see expressed most often these days, with various individuals
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Schumpeter on How Higher Education Wrecks Freedom 1
- Education
- February 22, 2024
A book that pays high returns for decades with endless insights is Joseph Schumpeter’s Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1943). It is not a systematic treatise. It’s more of a series of observations about huge problems that vexed those times and ours. Many are informed by economics. Some by history. Some by sociology and culture. Schumpeter’s outlook
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The Cancelled Black Harvard Professor Who Found No Racial Bias in Police Shootings 6
- Education, Featured, Politics
- February 22, 2024
Unless you have lived under a rock for the last four years, you will be very familiar with the claim that black Americans are disproportionately victims of police shootings compared with their white counterparts. But a nearly eight-year-old study challenging this narrative is enjoying renewed attention thanks to a recent high-profile interview of the study’s
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Homeschooling Isn’t What I Expected It To Be 5
- Education, Family, Featured
- February 14, 2024
I’ve heard it said, “I was a great parent before I had kids.” The same can be said of being a homeschooling parent. Homeschooling circles are full of idealistic moms and dads who often have very high standards for themselves and their children. Certainly, having strong ideals can work as a guide and benchmark for
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Can Adam Smith Reach Gen Z?1
- Economics, Education
- February 8, 2024
There’s a common assumption among the older generations that today’s college students are more swayed by socialism than ever before. There’s fear that this generation may be lost to the alluring temptations of “free” government programs and centrally planned economies. As a college professor over the past seven years, I have not found this to be the case. Make no mistake, the heralds of
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