Though a work of fiction, this story draws inspiration from surveillance technologies that pervade our world today. If left unchecked, the scenario painted within this first chapter could become a hauntingly accurate reflection of life in the not-so-distant future. This …
The Real Purge in Academia
Dissent in America’s Universities, by David R. Barnhizer (Skyhorse Publishing, 2013. It takes on new relevance given events at Harvard and what they reveal about who rises and who falls within the ranks of elite academia and why.]
Covid feels …
No Institution is Safe: DEI Thought Control in the Military
[co-author is Phillip Keuhlen, a retired naval officer and nuclear industry senior manager. He was educated at the US Naval Academy and the Naval Postgraduate School and had the privilege to command the USS Sam Houston (SSN-609), a nuclear submarine. …
Open Source Education – #SolutionsWatch
We all know the problem’s with the public miseducation system. But what’s the answer? Corbett in the Classroom, of course! Join James as he explores his new page, OpenSourceEducation.online, and talks about the inspiration for this idea (and the guerrilla …
I, a Headteacher, Was Investigated by Counter-Terrorism Agencies
During the Covid-19 pandemic, I was the only serving UK headteacher or school principal (out of over 20,000) to have publicly questioned lockdowns, masking kids and the Covid vaccine rollout to children. Many other headteachers privately agreed with my stance …
None So Blind: New York Wants Children Masked at Schools Again
It’s November 2023 and masks are officially back.
It’s been increasingly likely over the past few months, but the largest and most significant return of mask mandates is here. Not just at a college, a White House event, or at …
The New York Times Finally Admits to the Harm Done to Children
The New York Times published an op-ed over the weekend entitled ”The Startling Evidence of Learning Loss Is In.” Here’s the second paragraph:
The evidence is now in, and it is startling. The school closures that took 50 million children out …
The sordid lessons of Kinderläden
Every Leftist project that has bettered people’s lives was born from the radical imagination: the eight-hour work day, the now-disappeared family wage, the end of the transatlantic slave trade. The Left is always the first to point out that states …
How Did Higher Education Become a Cargo Cult?
The “cargo cult” represents an important concept and seems especially so of late. Early observations of such behavior emerged in island cultures exposed to European explorers. Ships unlike anything previously dreamed of arrived full of strange people with wondrous trade …
Stop blaming parents for everything
By the time my husband and I had our second child five years ago, I had long been researching “parent-bashing”. I knew that while parenting matters, it doesn’t matter nearly as much as the hoards of “parenting experts” would have …
Jews are not safe on Britain’s campuses
In my first year at university, in 2005, I vividly recall coming across a Guardian article by Luciana Berger headlined “Why I had to resign”. This was 14 years before she quit the “institutionally antisemitic” Labour Party; back then, she …
Teaching Children About Conspiracies – #SolutionsWatch
How do you introduce conspiracy reality to young learners in an age-appropriate way? Good question. To help us answer it, today Connor Boyack joins us once again to discuss the latest installment in the Tuttle Twins series: The Tuttle Twins …
Rishi Sunak’s pointless revolution
“I was not really in Manchester at all,” wrote J.B. Priestley after spending a few days in the city for the opening of a play in the early Thirties. “I was living in a private nightmare city, bounded in space …
A Solution to the Problem of Failed Public Schools
It may be true, as the late, great Andrew Breitbart famously said, that “politics is downstream of culture.” But both are downstream of education. Nothing is more important to our families or to the future of our country than the …
Did Lockdowns Finish Off Public Schooling?
We moved to a good school district. The area was growing. Built for families like ours, all of the public schools in the area received “A” or “8/10” ratings. There were two very expensive and very fancy private schools in …