Politics

The Secret Curriculum 12
- Education, Culture, Family, Politics
- September 7, 2022
School is starting, but don’t count on getting answers about what your child is being taught. School administrators commonly lie or give parents the runaround. That explains the fireworks over Jeremy Boland, a Greenwich, Connecticut, elementary school assistant principal, bragging about how the school pushes kids to think in a “progressive” way that he hopes
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The Name Game Is Another Blow to Our Republic 10
- Politics, Western Civilization
- September 6, 2022
“Semi-fascist.” That’s one more medallion to add to my string of honorable and not-so-honorable titles. Semi-fascism is the label President Joe Biden slapped on Donald Trump’s MAGA philosophy in a late August speech. Supporters of Trump are now apparently enemies of the state who despise the Constitution. Which means that about half of American voters
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Three Reasons Why Mandating Kindergarten Is a Bad Idea 3
- Education, Family, Politics
- September 6, 2022
This back-to-school season, many parents are eager to drop-off their kindergarteners to begin the 13-year journey toward high school graduation. It can be a joyful time, full of anticipation and excitement. But just because something may be desirable for many families doesn’t mean it should be mandatory for all. California is the latest state to
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Waking Up in the Middle of the Night of Totalitarianism 7
- Culture, History, International, Politics, Uncategorized, Western Civilization
- September 2, 2022
Sometimes events converge in my life and explode into revelation. A few weeks ago, I edited an interview with Elizabeth Spalding, one of the founders and now the director of the Victims of Communism Museum in Washington, D.C. About this same time, I read Under a Cruel Star, Heda Kovály’s account of life in Czechoslovakia
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Cat Parker, V*ccine Survivor 13
- Culture, Politics, Science
- September 1, 2022
Cat Parker had to be her own health advocate before she could advocate for other people. Like others who’ve had an adverse reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine, she followed her gut and didn’t just push her symptoms under the generic rug of menopause like some of her doctors suggested. Cat, 50, of Plymouth, Minnesota, is
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Is Boredom Driving Our Culture of Lunacy?10
- Culture, Politics, Religion, Western Civilization
- August 31, 2022
“Somebody’s boring me,” poet Dylan Thomas once commented. “I think it’s me,” he added. Were you to become a fly on the wall, or in this age of electronic wonders, a tiny drone, you might observe my daily life and decide that I’m the most boring human on planet earth. I follow the same daily
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