Locker rooms and bathrooms at schools that accept public funding are about to become dangerous places for women — even in states that have the kind of commonsense legislation intended to keep women’s private spaces private. Last week, the Biden…
Earlier this month, Mattel, the company that manufactures Scrabble outside of the U.S., announced that it will release a new “inclusive” and more “accessible” version of the popular word game in European markets called Scrabble Together. On today’s episode of…
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…
Never Say You’ve Had a Lucky Life: Especially If You’ve Had a Lucky Life By Joseph Epstein (Free Press, 269 pages, $29.99) In the introduction to his autobiography, out this month from Free Press (sorry, this doesn’t mean you don’t…
WASHINGTON — “From day one, my administration has been committed to fixing the broken student loan system,” President Joe Biden said to begin a video about his latest attempt to buy the college-graduate vote. Whenever Biden calls something “broken,” reach…
Boston University, Tufts, Wellesley College, and Yale aren’t the four best schools in the United States — just the four most expensive ones. The private schools each charge in excess of $90,000 for the 2024–2025 school year, the Boston Globe…
March Madness came early to the Dartmouth College basketball team. The “Big Green” aren’t set to compete in the famous tournament, but they did vote on March 5 to create the first college sports union, which was certified on March…
Karol Markowitz, columnist at the New York Post and co-author of the bestselling book Stolen Youth, joined publisher and host of The Spectacle podcast Melissa Mackenzie during The American Spectator’s education symposium in Palm Beach, Florida to discuss the radical woke ideology infecting grade schools in…
The sale of marijuana for nonmedical purposes is illegal in Virginia, not to mention at the federal level. But that hasn’t stopped Roanoke College in Salem, Virginia, from developing an entire major and minor totally dedicated to training students to…
Melissa Mackenzie, host of The Spectacle podcast and publisher at The American Spectator, welcomed the magazine’s newest hire, Nate Hochman, during The American Spectator’s education symposium. They talked about Nate’s experience at a left-leaning liberal college in Colorado Springs and discussed the developing tendency of…