June 28, 2024

How to Help Recovering Progressives

It was Winston Churchill who once said, “You can always count on America to do the right thing, after it has exhausted all other options.” I don’t know about all the other options, but when it comes to progressive ideology and its v...

August 31, 2023

The Great Untethering

The spread of school choice and rise of remote work are two of today’s most significant social trends. In the last year alone, seven states -- Florida, Indiana, Mississippi, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia -- have fo...

July 18, 2023

The Classic Psychology Text That Predicted Today’s Urban Decay

It’s a question that most Americans who follow the news ask themselves daily: “How can the residents of so many of the nation’s largest cities keep supporting local officials who tolerate the ongoing destruction of their communities...

June 20, 2023

School Choice Will Supercharge the American Economy

It has only been a year since Arizona passed the country’s first comprehensive school choice program. But since then, seven other states, including Florida, have followed suit with at least eight more on track to adopt similar bills in the near...

March 20, 2022

What Should we Pray for Regarding Ukraine?

While watching news reports of Russia’s Ukraine invasion, I find myself recalling that memorable scene in the 1970 movie Patton when the general directs his chief chaplain, Msgr. James H. O’Neill, to write a prayer to end the bad wea...

October 12, 2021

The Benefits of Blue State Bankruptcy

In the months following the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis, many believed that blue states most burdened by the combination of underfunded public pensions and large deficits would have to declare bankruptcy. Oppenheimer Managing Director Meredith Whit...

August 24, 2021

Bidenstein

As little as a few weeks ago, the Democrat Party handlers who engineered the election of the 46th U.S. president were likely still celebrating their historic accomplishment.  Having created a candidate who appeared to the outside world...

July 9, 2021

Three Hard Facts That Doom Woke Public Schooling

The growing numbers of American parents going up against woke educators and their school board allies are performing an important -- indeed, historic -- service to their country. Future generations will applaud their efforts to prevent color shaming,...

June 23, 2020

America’s Faithful Are Better Prepared for the Coming Anti-Government Rage

Future historians looking back on the COVID-19 epidemic will likely record two U.S. domestic crises, one physical and the other psychological. The first we already know: the spread of a potentially lethal virus forcing a countrywide shutdown in order...

June 28, 2014

Fiscal Crisis and the Fate of Liberalism

According to a recently published survey by the Pew Research Center, Americans are more politically polarized today than ever before. The percentage of voters who express consistently conservative or consistently liberal positions has doubled over th...

April 12, 2014

Big Spending on School Infrastructure Is Bad Policy

With the American economy finally seeming to show some signs of life, many groups are now lobbying for a crash program to renovate public schools.  In early March, for example, the National Center for Educational Statistics released a report, sa...