Congress recently passed a $1.9 trillion relief effort, the most expensive bill in the history of the country. As a result, the federal account is going to need a considerable influx of cash, and the much-loathed 1-percent can’t (read: won’t) front this kind of tax haul all by their lonesome. A realist middle-classer should…
A New Year With The Patron Saint of Sudan
'Bakhita' offers readers a rare encounter with real inspiration.
Inspiration is difficult to come by these days. The idea itself has been all but lost to social media, scrawled over a million million Instagram posts. You know the look — chalkboard shots backdropped by some magisterial nature scene, across each wood-framed board a neat truism or easy proverb. There is a virtually endless scroll…
Pinkos Have More Pipe Dreams
The young socialists recently profiled in 'New York' are ambitious; they're also zealots against political reality.
At the close of the 1973 film Soylent Green, detective Frank Thorn discovers a new class of barbaric corporate corruption. The titular company has claimed its green wafers provide the impoverished population of a future dystopian America with protein derived from ocean plankton. But following a putrid whiff of clues, the dogged Thorn makes his…
A Good Man Fired For Confronting Racism At My So-Called ‘Christian’ High School
Mr. Tucker had earned a glowing reputation over his 17 years at Faith Christian Academy. Then he led a chapel condemning racism...
A private religious school sits off Interstate-70 in the Denver suburb of Arvada, located in the center-north portion of Colorado’s neat square of the country. Founded in 1972 as the Jesus Center, the school later redubbed itself Faith Christian Academy (a name admittedly suggesting more school, less cult to potentially interested parents). Their current campus…
A Lone Millennial In The Anti-Pot Crowd
What's it like to be a millennial against legalizing weed? In a word: lonely.
Millennials stand accused of causing all manner of societal and economic woes — we’re somehow even at fault for a failing napkin industry. In fact, blaming millennials has grown so ubiquitous that the impulse to do so now (at last) carries a bit of a stigma. So I’m loathe to critique my generation, whose greatest sins…
Slated To Lose Protected Status, Nicaraguans Don’t Want To Leave U.S. Right Now — For Good Reason
Nicaragua under Daniel Ortega has seen government corruption morph into political violence. For 5,300 Nicaraguans living with protected status in the U.S., now is not the right time to return home.
The corruption of Nicaragua’s current government is difficult to quantify. Americans may be familiar with the regular anti-press rantings of a certain executive office holder. But whatever implicit wish for an obsequious press corp that prompts much of the president’s rage-tweeting, he has no way of effecting such a media in real life. There will…
Silicon Valley Parents Choose Low & No Tech Schools. What About Your Kid’s School?
There's a disconnect between the tech products designed and promoted by parents in Silicon Valley and the tech-free schools they choose for their own kids. So what should parents outside Palo Alto conclude?
The arrival of late August means Back-to-School has come, a time of emotional overload for parents. Someone else will now devise ways to take the restless kiddos through nine months of long daytime hours. Brilliant! Yet, the advent of each new grade reminds the suddenly wistful (five minutes of quiet can evoke startling change) mom…
Beware Those Who Warn Against ‘College For All’
In a recent Wall Street Journal interview, Bryan Caplan argues America should spend a lot less on eduction — and witlessly demonstrates the dumbness of deifying economics.
In a recent Wall Street Journal interview, Bryan Caplan argues America should spend a lot less on eduction — and witlessly demonstrates the dumbness of deifying economics.
A.P. Bio Is Hilarious. Thank God It’s Not Real
NBC's latest sitcom gleefully decimates "normal" high school expectations of the student-teacher relationship and it's comedy platinum.
NBC’s latest sitcom gleefully decimates “normal” high school expectations of the student-teacher relationship and it’s comedy platinum.
Fatherhood According To ‘This Is Us’ — Jack & Randall’s Highest Calling
The hit television series offers up that rarest of silver screen characters — the genuinely good dad.
My mom claims the reason she chose to have a big family can be traced to The Waltons. Set in West Virginia during the Depression, the show follows its titular family through the rural woes of the time period. (I suspect John Boy, played by Richard Thompson, was the original draw for my mom, who…
Should Your Child Really Be Spending MORE Time With A Screen?
A recent Wall Street Journal article proves the laudable & illustrious outlet isn't above using clickbait to capture eyeballs. But even the REAL premise of their story is problematic.
A recent Wall Street Journal article proves the laudable & illustrious outlet isn’t above using clickbait to capture eyeballs. But even the REAL premise of their story is problematic.
‘The American Plan’ – South Florida Is Playground For Corruption In David H. Weisberg’s Sprawling Thriller
The American dream has been defined down for Korean war deserter Philip Narby, a paranoid young man who may or may not be on a government mission to stop Castro
The American dream has been defined down for Korean war deserter Philip Narby, a paranoid young man who may or may not be on a government mission to stop Castro
The Case For Cursive: Interview With Carew Papritz
"Losing handwriting is part of a greater societal push to diminish self- expression through the vehicle of the arts."
“Losing handwriting is part of a greater societal push to diminish self- expression through the vehicle of the arts.”
To All New Dads: Talking To Your Baby Is Even More Important Than You Think
According to Harvard scientists, verbal interaction - starting on baby's very first day of life - shapes her brain's "architecture."
According to Harvard scientists, verbal interaction – starting on baby’s very first day of life – shapes her brain’s “architecture.”
‘The STOP:’ Timely Curriculum Aims To Change The Police-Community Dynamic
Dwayne Bryant uses events from his past to teach black students strategies for interacting with police, while challenging law enforcement to rethink their approach to community policing.
Dwayne Bryant uses events from his past to teach black students strategies for interacting with police, while challenging law enforcement to rethink their approach to community policing.
For Most Parents, School Choice Is Not About Segregation
It is unjustifiable to impute parents with racial animus for wanting a high-quality school for their children.
It is unjustifiable to impute parents with racial animus for wanting a high-quality school for their children.