Imagine that you are a lover of folk music and your friend prefers the music of the big bands. Imagine that each of you is trying to persuade the other of the high worth of what he loves the best….
When Josh Shapiro ran for governor of Pennsylvania against a weak Republican candidate in 2022, he postured as a moderate Democrat willing to embrace school choice and mollify critics of energy tax schemes. But because he is bought and paid…
The news is that Goldsmiths College, a subsidiary of the University of London, has cut its Queer Studies Program. The college is facing what is now a common enough crisis, running in the red because enrollments are down, with no…
Candidate Trump is blunt. Here is but one headline from, yes, CNN. “Trump wants to close the Department of Education, joining calls by GOP rivals” CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday he wants to close the Department of…
One of the more disturbing outcomes of the late 2023 congressional investigation into the prevalence of antisemitism on America’s college and university campuses was the discovery of widespread plagiarism. No sooner was it clear that Harvard president Claudine Gay may…
When I think of education in our time, and the reform called classical education, I try to imagine what someone from 1900 would think of a modern school for small children, laid out like a flat and faceless factory. I…
Ever since June of 2022, when Arizona became the first state to legalize universal school choice, the adoption of this K–12th grade education reform has accelerated well beyond even its boosters’ wildest dreams. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina,…
Step inside the Bishop McCort Catholic High School in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, located almost 70 miles east of Pittsburgh, and there are palpable examples of how faith figures into the educational experience of highly motivated students with ambitions for college. There’s…
In recent months, the financial press has expressed growing fear of an economy-wrecking crisis in commercial real estate. The specific concern is that as the trillions in mortgages on America’s non-residential buildings come up for renewal over the next few…
The recent lamentable travails afflicting American academia — falling public support, suppression of free expression, declining integrity of research as evidenced by seemingly widespread plagiarism — mask a longer-term but I think serious problem: American colleges and universities are disseminating…
