It’s a phenomenon as old as human culture itself. Il Paradiso represented a falling-off from Il Purgatorio. Paradise Regained wasn’t quite up there with Paradise Lost. Twain’s later Tom Sawyer books don’t hold a candle to the original adventures of…
On Thursday, Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez announced that its embattled associate dean for “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), Tirien Steinbach, has resigned. Steinbach’s all but assuredly forced “resignation” followed an outpouring of disgust from Americans revolted by her…
Since the dawn of man, from cave paintings to oral traditions all the way to multi-billion-dollar blockbuster movies, human beings have craved stories. But while those of the past narrated the lives of great heroes of wars or catastrophes, today’s…
This article is adapted from Paul Kengor’s book Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century. Google the phrase “founding father of public education,” and you’ll likely land on Horace Mann (1796–1859). But many of us would submit…
There’s a classic joke by Mort Sahl that never gets old, because progressives keep validating it: “World ends – women and minorities hardest hit.” As far back as 1988, Sahl was mocking the absurd penchant of the New York Times…
Thirty years ago, before the term “woke” was coined into the American lexicon, when “virtue signaling” was unknown, and when (mostly white) boys and men weren’t quite yet considered the root of all evil, the Disney corporation floated the idea…
What we begin with today involves the scandal — we’re not allowed to call it a scandal, but it’s surely one — at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Or perhaps it’s better put as the latest and most grotesque element of the…
Over eight hundred schools in the United States identify as classical, meaning that they subscribe to the educational philosophy of the Greeks and Romans, who grounded education in what they termed “the liberal arts.” These arts include the trivium —…
Confession: I chestfed my baby. Chestfeeding is a real thing. When my very premature babies were born at 24.5 weeks gestation weighing 750 and 810 grams respectively, they were intubated because they could not breath on their own. On day…
