How John Taylor Gatto Helped Parents And Children Regain Our Freedom To Think
The legendary thinker rebelled against the factory-like machinery of state-run public education. May he rest in peace, and may his work live on.
Would Marie Curie Have Changed The World If She’d Learned Common Core Math?
Madame Curie became the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate in physics and the first female professor at France’s Sorbonne University. November is the anniversary of her birth.
Our Culture War Is Between People Who Get Results And Empty Suits With Pristine Credentials
Donald Trump declines the authority of the cultural sectors that most assertively claim it. That’s the real conflict going on.
In Midterms, Democrats’ College Indoctrination Campaign Bore Fruit
In the left’s image, U.S. education has become a virtue-signal-generation machine. The bulk of our credentials have turned into shiny gold stars meant to signify not achievement but compliance with leftist ideology.
How Our Classical School Responded To The Left’s Takeover Of Debate
There’s wildly anti-conservative bias in high school debate leagues. So we built our own more objective competition that can better serve students.
9 Years Into Common Core, Test Scores Are Down, Indoctrination Up
Common Core sucked all the energy, money, and motivation right out of desperately needed potential reforms to U.S. public schools for a decade, and for nothing.
How Upending Its Hidden Assumptions Can Deepen Your Read Of Science Fiction
Which foundational ideas, assumptions, and seemingly-semantic debates mold how we interpret our world in relation to science and faith?
How Public Schools Indoctrinate Kids Without Almost Anyone Noticing
Teaching the value of free thought matters now more than ever. Unfortunately, most American public schools take the opposite approach.
Why We Need Poetry And Literature To Teach Us Practical Philosophy
On this episode of the Federalist Radio Hour, Ben Domenech and Matthew Mehan discuss young adult literature, Harry Potter, and high lessons in popular art.
Why Putting Your Kids In Public Schools Is Now More Dangerous Than Ever
Polls find the majority of U.S. parents don’t want to put their kids in public schools, but most do anyway. A new book explains why they should stop, and here’s a gameplan for achieving that.
Jane Austen Explains Why Real Life Is More Mysterious Than Fiction
Throughout ‘Northanger Abbey,’ Jane Austen explains why an untempered imagination can be misleading, and why real life is more mysterious than fiction.
What Cultural Trends Created ‘The Coddling Of The American Mind’?
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt and First Amendment expert Greg Lukianoff join Federalist Radio to discuss what’s happening in both child development and on college campuses.
Is A Toxic Public School Environment Behind Increases In Child Suicide?
With increased anxiety and suicide among children, combined with shifts to giant-sized schools, kids’ public school experience today is nothing like that of their parents.
Today’s The Perfect Day To Remember Poland’s Working-Class Revolt Against Communism
Lech Walesa turns 75 in September and 35 years ago won the Nobel Peace Prize. He’s probably the most important labor leader of our era.
Podcast: Author Makes The Case For Removing Your Child From Public School
Author Mary Rice Hasson argues that public schools are now poisonous for the hearts and minds of children from religious families of every faith.
Why Do Teachers Like Me Keep Coming Back To School? Love
Parent emails, difficult administration, limited pay raise potential, the looming threat of strikes — why would one choose to enter such a field?
The Left Is Actually Afraid Of Jordan Peterson Because He’s Leading A Revolt Against Their Corruption
The Atlantic’s Caitlin Flanagan says Jordan Peterson shows the left that ‘currently seems ascendant in our houses of culture and art, has in fact entered its decadent late phase, and it is deeply vulnerable.’
Thomas Sowell’s ‘Discrimination and Disparities’ Is The Book About Racism That America Needs
Sowell’s calm and calculated look at racial disparity in America is a stunning work of brevity and reason.
Interview: Dennis Prager On Western Values, Jewish Leftism, And Censorship
Prager talks with Ben Weingarten about his conservative views, religiosity, reason versus emotion, Western values in immigration policy, and social media.
California Bill Would Ban Catholics From Teaching Their Kids The Catechism
Most discussion of the bill has focused on its potential ban of Bible sales. More likely, the bill will make religious education programs the target of ‘death by litigation.’
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