By Richard Vedder – wsj.com – March 16, 2023 American higher education is in crisis. The rise of diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracies and a growing intolerance for dissent has spurred political battles for control of campus decision-making in North Carolina, Texas, Florida, and elsewhere. The fights point to a fundamental question: Who “owns” a university? Perhaps the question is better…

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The Left behaves as if normal family life ideologically deforms children and requires the supervisory role of the state.
By: Becket Adams – nationalreview.com – March 26, 2023 We have been told nearly every year for the past 50-plus years that we have only ten years to live. If you figure that one out, you’re good, as Groucho Marx would say. On March 20, the New York Times greeted readers with yet another startling announcement. “Breaking News,” the paper…
One side of our economic challenges can be solved by controlling inflation, which requires raising interest rates. The other side can be controlled by increasing liquidity in our banks, thereby increasing inflation. Some say the Fed will be choosing between generational inflation and another banking crisis in the days ahead.
By: Frederick M. Hess – nationalreview.com – March 16, 2023 Lately there’s been much hand-wringing punditry about the education “culture wars,” with the mainstream media blaming right-wing extremists for heated fights over social studies, school boards, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), library books, and what-have-you. But what if right-wing extremism is mostly a figment of the mainstream media’s collective imagination? And…
Those were the central questions considered at The Christian Post’s conference, “Unmasking Gender Ideology: Protecting Children, Confronting Transgenderism,” where several professionals from various fields with experience fighting gender ideology came together to share their insights.
By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 22, 2023 The unclassified game asked Members to imagine the summer of 2025, as China mounts a naval and air assault across the Taiwan Strait. Retired U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery, who helped run the game, tells us the U.S. had about 30 days of warning indications to move more forces…
The agreement negotiated in Beijing to restore relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran signaled at least a temporary reordering of the usual alliances and rivalries, with Washington left on the sidelines.
Ukrainians, and many Europeans and Americans, are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square.