Oxford colleges are suffocating places, stuffed to the gunnels with competitive and perfectionistic types, precocious in some ways and very immature in others. Everybody knows everybody else, adolescent hysteria and gossip can travel fast, and an atmosphere dominated by a …
Nixon Versus McGovern 2.0? Not so Fast!
Nixon Versus McGovern 2.0? Not so Fast!
by Steven Kritz at Brownstone Institute
In early August, I wrote an essay posted in Brownstone Journal entitled, “Nixon vs. McGovern 2.0.” I sought to demonstrate that the most useful way of looking …
What Should Be Done for Student Victims of the Shots?
What Should Be Done for Student Victims of the Shots?
by Lucia Sinatra at Brownstone Institute
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Congressman Matt Rosendale who represents the Second District of Montana. His staff asked if I would …
What Should Be Done for Student Victims of the Shots?
What Should Be Done for Student Victims of the Shots?
by Lucia Sinatra at Brownstone Institute
A few weeks ago, I was contacted by Congressman Matt Rosendale who represents the Second District of Montana. His staff asked if I would …
Homeschooling Gave Medicine a Blueprint
Homeschooling Gave Medicine a Blueprint
by Aaron Kheriaty at Brownstone Institute
As I explored in two recent posts (“The Managerialist Revolution in Medicine” and “Why We Are Sick“), our medical institutions—from hospitals and licensing boards to medical schools and professional societies—are failing …
Restrictive Schooling Imperils Our Children
Restrictive Schooling Imperils Our Children
by Charles Krblich at Brownstone Institute
Last week, my sons’ school went into lockdown. It wasn’t a drill. There was a real threat. Two high school-aged students, a boy and a girl, were discussing an alleged fight …
The cult of kindness
Last June, I walked down to our local public school here in the foothills of Los Angeles to pick up my son from his last day of kindergarten. As we were leaving, I snapped a picture of a sign on …
UC Faculty Challenge University’s Free Speech Suppression
This article was co-authored by Carole H. Browner, William I. Robinson, Aditi Bhargava, Lazlo Boros, Hugo Loaiciga, Roberto Strongman, Arvind Thomas, Anton Van Der Ven, Gabriel Vorobiof, and Patrick Whelan.
IntroductionA group of senior University of California professors was …
Open Letter to Students and Parents about Vaccines
Dear Students and Parents:
Another school year is upon us.
For many people, including students, the Covid era seems to be over. That confusing, frightening, and traumatic time finally feels like a thing of the past.
However, the harms we …
Save the Voters, Replace the Schools
It’s a modern fetish that we’re brilliant while our ancestors were idiots. After all, they didn’t have iPhones, the Internet, or Kim Kardashian.
This is also academic consensus, for what it’s worth: called the Flynn effect, the idea is people …
Science, Society, and Stability
The various approaches to education differ according to ideology – liberal, communist, and so on – and depending on what discipline is dominant at any given time. So, for example, in the 19th century, there was a time when the …
Freud is coming for your kids
According to an old joke, Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung are enjoying some pastries in a Viennese coffee shop. The younger analyst hesitantly asks the elder: “Tell me, Herr Professor Freud… vat lies between fear und sex?”. With furrowed brow, …
What Happened to American Civics?
Man in tricorn hat at Bicentennial celebration, July 1975; Diana Mara Henry, https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/muph051-s01a-i00035
My son’s school assigned a civics project for summer vacation. The project’s scope is expansive and spans from explaining the history and functions of the three branches …
Labour’s war on free speech
An unspoken maxim looms over the free speech crisis in our universities: it is only ever denied by those whose views fall in line with the current orthodoxy. For all its faults, and there were many, Britain’s previous government recognised …
My Professional Journey through Infectious Disease
In previous Brownstone Journal posts, I provided a view of American healthcare from the 30,000-foot level, and an experience I had back in 1978, while an internal medicine resident that had a profound impact on my subsequent professional practice. Today, …