Before his election victory last year, Donald Trump’s plans for education were striking in their vagueness. Rather than publishing detailed policies, he promised to make universities “patriotic” and “sane” after years of liberal excess. Since his return to the White …
Who Controls the Administrative State?
Who Controls the Administrative State?
by Jeffrey A. Tucker at Brownstone Institute
President Trump on March 20, 2025, ordered the following: “The Secretary of Education shall, to the maximum extent appropriate and permitted by law, take all necessary steps to …
Gramsci, Hegemony, and the World Order
Gramsci, Hegemony, and the World Order
by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute
Antonio Gramsci, the Italian Marxist philosopher, is easily underestimated with regard to what his intellectual legacy can teach us in the 21st century. It is true that Gramsci …
The End of College Vaccine Mandates
The End of College Vaccine Mandates
by Lucia Sinatra at Brownstone Institute
With one stroke of his pen, President Trump accomplished what we have been fighting for over the last 4 years – an end to college and university Covid-19 …
Raising Generation Next – #SolutionsWatch
In this important and wide-ranging conversation, James Corbett and Ernest Hancock discuss parenting. From corporal punishment to home schooling to protecting children from indoctrination, this edition of #SolutionsWatch explores the question of how to raise free, sovereign, independent human beings.…
Lessons in antisemitism from the NEU
Perhaps the clues were always there. When the “national education union” was formed in 2017, it dispensed with the rules of grammar for its new image. Capital letters, typically used for proper nouns, were dispensed with in its logo. This …
Health and Health Care: A Common Pool Resource?
Health and Health Care: A Common Pool Resource?
by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute
In 2009 the Sveriges Riksbank Prize for Economic Sciences (Nobel Prize in Economics) was jointly awarded to Elinor Ostrom and Oliver Williamson for their works on …
Australia’s Misinformation Bill Is Dead…for Now
Australia’s Misinformation Bill Is Dead…for Now
by Maryanne Demasi at Brownstone Institute
It is official.
The Australian government’s attempt to ram through legislation to combat misinformation online has been blocked after the Greens party announced it would not support the …
Medicine Needs Critical Thinking, not Critical Theory
Medicine Needs Critical Thinking, not Critical Theory
by Russ Gonnering at Brownstone Institute
There are indications that the Pluralistic Ignorance that has characterized the past 4 years is at last coming to an end. More and more people are openly …
The Banalization of Education
The Banalization of Education
by Thomas Harrington at Brownstone Institute
The self-evident degradation of educational quality in our society today has several causes. But of all of them there are three that most immediately come to mind.
The first is …
US Report on Covid Response: Ten Truths and an Elephant Family
US Report on Covid Response: Ten Truths and an Elephant Family
by Bhaskaran Raman at Brownstone Institute
A US House of Representatives committee has laid out, with references and evidence, some 550 pages detailing most of the elements of the …
US Report on Covid Response: Ten Truths and an Elephant Family
US Report on Covid Response: Ten Truths and an Elephant Family
by Bhaskaran Raman at Brownstone Institute
A US House of Representatives committee has laid out, with references and evidence, some 550 pages detailing most of the elements of the …
Trump could make education great again
Linda McMahon’s nomination to head the Department of Education was a characteristic move from Donald Trump, host of The Apprentice, who ended every episode with the words “You’re fired!”. McMahon, who co-founded the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) is no stranger …
How Trump can make education great again
Linda McMahon’s nomination to head the Department of Education was a characteristic move from Donald Trump, host of The Apprentice, who ended every episode with the words “You’re fired!”. McMahon, who co-founded the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) is no stranger …
How universities teach students to shame
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 …
