Swift-Kelce Engagement
Penna Dexter The Taylor Swift–Travis Kelce engagement has some people wondering: Will marriage by the world’s most famous millennial feminist accelerate the recent, modest reversal of the decline in m...
Phones in Classroom
Kerby Anderson Now that students are back in school, there is something missing in the classroom. What is missing are cell phones. Last month, the public schools in the District of Columbia banned cel...
No Simple Solutions
Kerby Anderson Matt Taibbi worked for many years as a contributing editor for Rolling Stones and now is the publisher of Racket News. After the horrible news of the school shooting at a Minneapolis Ca...
More Sellers Than Buyers
Kerby Anderson I have two neighbors that illustrate what is happening and will continue to happen in the housing market. One neighbor just sold their house for a much lower price than anyone in the n...
Southern Surge
Kerby Anderson The National Assessment of Educational Progress is often referred to as the Nation’s Report Card. For most of the states, this hasn’t been a report card you would want to show anyone....
Equitable Grading
Penna Dexter To address what they see as the problem of social inequities between students, education bureaucrats have implemented “reforms” in grading practices aimed at promoting ”equity” in student...
Social Media Debate
Kerby Anderson Yascha Mounk has been watching the battle over the impact of social media on young Americans. On one side are psychologists, like Jonathan Haidt, who has written about this for many ye...
Harvard and Bitcoin
Kerby Anderson Kenneth Rogoff is a Harvard University economics professor. On an X post, he identified himself as the Harvard economist who predicted back in 2018 that “A decade from now, Bitcoin is...
New Segregation
Kerby Anderson David Brooks writes in The New York Times about “America’s New Segregation.” He isn’t talking about racial segregation but instead is focusing on class segregation. Essentially, we are...
Universal Basic Income
Kerby Anderson Six months ago, I recorded a commentary on the idea of universal basic income. UBI is a fiscal program to pay a regular income to everyone without any conditions. At the time, I quoted...
