America needs more housing. Pressure for reform is only growing as available homes get less and less affordable. Unfortunately, rather than addressing the root cause of high housing prices — an epidemic of local overregulation that prevents enough homes from…
Social Justice Fallacies By Thomas Sowell (Basic Books, 224 pages, $28) How fortunate we are to have Thomas Sowell to apply clarifying reason and evidence — both always in short supply — to the confused and dishonest rhetoric and toxic…
This June, the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action, ruling it invalid under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. For Justice Clarence Thomas, the ruling fulfilled his decades-old legal vision of affirmative action’s incompatibility with the Constitution. He…
Many people in our polarized world rage over the idea that balance means compromising on principles. Give them their due: compromise on principle is evidence of moral weakness. Afraid to stand up for what is right, the compromiser temporizes, creates…
To what extent must an employer accommodate an employee’s religious beliefs or practices? As of January 13, that religious liberty question will be taken up by the Supreme Court, which will consider Groff v. DeJoy in its spring term. The case addresses…
Rather than granting or denying cert to a case involving a North Carolina charter school, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday sent the case to the Biden administration for further consideration. In a one-sentence directive, the court asked the U.S. solicitor…
White teachers in the Minneapolis Public School District will be fired before minority teachers, according to the stipulations of a recently negotiated union agreement. Alpha News reported that a deal between the Minneapolis Federation of Teachers and Minneapolis Public Schools…
If there’s one group the education establishment wants to stop, it is parents, many of them Asians, who push their students to excel. Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, is the best high school in…
The California legislature thinks it has taken a bold new stride toward equality by moving to strike from the state Constitution a clause banning discrimination on such bases as race and sex. Motivated by present civil unrest, the legislature hopes…
Students at American universities have long experienced public shaming and cyberbullying by their peers. Now their own faculty and administrators are attacking them. Campus professors, administrators, and graduate student instructors publicly smeared UMass Amherst student Louis Shenker as a dangerous…