Penna Dexter Grade inflation is ravaging American universities. In 1960, 15 percent of grades were A’s. Today nearly 50 percent are. At the college level, more A’s are given than any other grade. The Washington Post reports that, last year at Harvard, two thirds of the grades were A’s — up from 35 percent just 12 years ago. According to…
Read NowPenna Dexter What should American universities do to get their good reputations back? Surveys show Americans are losing confidence in higher education. The late Charlie Kirk famously recommended against going to college. Gallup polling done last year found only 42 percent of Americans expressing “a great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in higher education. According to The Wall…
Read NowPenna Dexter President Trump’s recommended budget for fiscal year 2027 includes substantial cuts to programs which, he says, “poison the minds of Americans.” In releasing this budget, the White House Office of Management and Budget touted its plan to “eliminate funding for cultural Marxism.” OMB Chairman, Russell Vought, has directed his team to scrutinize agencies that advance transgender ideology, gay…
Read NowPenna Dexter In the mid-20th century, powerful societal forces were asking the question: ‘Does the culture really need religion?’ The Christian consensus lost ground to multicultural ideology and the ideas of the sexual revolution. A new secularist theology took hold. It turns out, society is not improved by our insistence on a naked public square. In an article for First…
Read NowPenna Dexter Competitive fairness returns to the highest level of amateur sports. The International Olympic Committee has announced that, beginning with the 2028 games in Los Angeles, participation in women’s competitions is reserved only for biological females. IOC President Kirsty Coventry stated in a video that “The scientific evidence is very clear: male chromosomes give performance advantages in sports that…
Read NowPenna Dexter The pro-trans frenzy in public education is supposedly fading. Early in his second term, President Trump issued several executive orders meant to protect against attempts to indoctrinate K-12 students into delusional gender ideologies. School districts who violate these directives and retain policies, like allowing boys on women’s sports teams and into women’s private spaces, risk losing federal education…
Read NowPenna Dexter Planned Parenthood affiliates are getting creative in the face of the loss of taxpayer funding. In a 6-3 decision last June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that states can exclude Planned Parenthood from their Medicaid programs on the basis that the organization provides abortions. This imperils the organization’s presence in conservative states. Soon thereafter Congress passed and the…
Read NowPenna Dexter We’re in the thick of Lent, the period of 40 days, which comes before Easter in the Christian calendar. Lent is a time of preparation for Easter, and, in many Christian traditions, a season of remorse. Lent can serve a good purpose even for people who are not in liturgical churches and don’t observe or think about it…
Read NowPenna Dexter It’s been more than ten years since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling extending same sex marriage to every state. Gallup polling shows that, in the five years following the Obergefell v. Hodges decision, public support for gay marriage rose from 60 to 70 percent. Then it plateaued. Gallup found that, among Republicans, approval of same sex…
Read NowPenna Dexter It’s been three years since Budweiser featured transgender personality Dylan Mulvaney’s face on cans of Bud Light. This was a horrible business decision from which Budweiser is still working to recover. Plus — it began a three-year death spiral for the corporate influence strategy employed by the Human Rights Campaign. Family Research Council applauds this collapse in its…
Read NowPenna Dexter According to Fortune magazine, Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley “thinks America needs a wake-up call.” Mr. Farley told Monica Langley, host of Office Hours: Business Edition podcast, his company has 5000 open jobs for mechanics. He said these jobs pay six-figure salaries. It’s not just Ford that’s having trouble finding people to fill manual labor positions. Mr….
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