Leadership Series: The Ride of the Spineless, Part III
Until institutions decide to reward courage instead of punishing imperfection, we’ll keep getting leaders who need 27 meetings to schedule a meeting.
Education
Part III–America Lost Its Engineers Because We Forgot The Magic
America used to build things — bridges, railroads, skyscrapers, ships, engines, rockets that broke gravity’s neck. Now we build strip malls that collapse after 12 winters and school systems that produce seniors who can’t measure a 2×4 without crying.
Protecting Children in School
I pulled my two beautiful children out of public school and put them into a Catholic school. I wanted a refuge. I had faith that in a Catholic school, I would find virtue. What I found was pretense.
Larry Summers Has a Blot on His Resume
The latest cautionary tale in the news concerns a man who had his fifteen minutes of fame, enjoyed the trappings of power for decades, and now, at 70, Larry Summers is suffering quite a fall from grace.
Breaking the Cycle in Education
When I retired in 2017 and finally got settled back in Michigan around 2019, I decided to try something new — teaching. I earned my interim certificate and took a job in what turned out to be one of the poorest counties in the state, measured by home values and income. You could see the poverty in the houses, the roads, and, more than anything, the expectations kids had for themselves.
Hybrid Homeschool. The Pythagorean Theorem Won’t Help You at the Gas Pump
The system brags about meeting “state standards,” but half those standards were written by people who couldn’t change a tire, much less balance a budget. So we end up with teenagers who can solve for x but can’t make change for a $20.
My Little School
It was late. I pulled into the campus after seven o’clock to attend my last class of the semester. My last college class. Ever. It was a night class. In America, most self-respecting people my age were finishing supper, settling down to watch “Wheel of Fortune.” But I was in school. I had been attending …
Lifetime Teacher
The collapse of the family, as the source for manners, civility and the desire to learn, places an undue demand on our teachers/school systems, and ultimately, the courts/police/corrections systems.
When America Stopped Praying: Engel v. Vitale and the Rise of Secular Nihilism
In 1962, the Supreme Court ripped the foundation stone out from under America’s public life. In Engel v. Vitale, the Court struck down a brief, voluntary, non-denominational school prayer written by New York officials
No. Books Are Not Being Banned.
The American Library Association is inflaming a nothing burger. You want to read a “banned” book, nothing is stopping you.
(Future) History 304: Pandemics and Policy Failures of the 21st Century
It was a rainy afternoon in 2125, and the university coffee shop was buzzing with chatter and the smell of synthetic espresso. History 304: Pandemics and Policy Failures of the 21st Century had just let out, and a group of students huddled around a table, half-mocking, half-processing what they’d learned.
“I am Charlie; I am DJT; I am an AMERICAN!”
A dastardly historical maneuver is “historic negation.” The facts of history are erased and newly imagined facts are recorded and taught.
Arizona Shows Us How Public Education Should Work
We reported, on Friday morning, how public schools in the Pyrite State have been required to treat mentally ill boys who think that they’re girls as real girls, and how such has caused a number of other high schools to forfeit girls’ volleyball games rather than play against ‘transgender’ players. The Wall Street Journal has …
Classical Christian Education: A Path Forward to American Renewal
I anticipate that many readers of this article would agree that the quality of education in America has been in a steady state of decline for decades.
The War on Masculinity: What the Data Really Shows
For decades, we’ve been told that masculinity is a problem to be solved, a threat to be managed, or a relic of the past to be discarded. But when you step back and look at the research—it paints a different picture.
The Long March: Re-Purposing schools in America
There is a pervasive mood of shock and bewilderment besieging our nation. Just when citizens think nothing more disturbing can happen, we receive a gut-punch.
Tyler Robinson: Toddler In Adult Body
Tyler Robinson is an Antifa-want-to-be, with sexual fetishes, whose maturity level is between age 2 and age 10, depending upon his mood. He was full of hate for anyone who dared to point out that his beliefs are harmful fantasies.
Back to School…Still Milking Cows: America’s Education Calendar Is Stuck in the 1800s
I didn’t like the year-round model at first. It sucks going back a month earlier than the government schools (yes, government schools—let’s stop pretending they’re anything else). But after living it, I can tell you the payoff is real.
Moral Relativism, Part 1: Black Lives Matter and the Death of Moral Certainty in America
Moral relativism says there’s no absolute right or wrong. That humans, just like cockroaches, are accidents of the cosmos. That life itself has no intrinsic value.
Mac Daddy: The General Who Never Cut the Apron Strings
Helicopter moms? Bulldozer moms? Please. Douglas MacArthur had the original stealth bomber mom. While most West Point cadets sweated through inspections and hazing with nothing but their wits, MacArthur had his mother, Mary “Pinky” Hardy, living full-time at the Thayer Hotel, overlooking the Academy grounds.