Although Catholic schools look good when compared with their public counterparts, they don’t fare as well in contrast to the way they used to be.
Book Reviews
A Conservative in the Academy
If the common saying, “if you are young and not liberal, then you have no heart; but if you are old and not conservative, then you have no brain,” holds true, then why are our academies littered with aging Marxists and radical feminist professors?
Progressive Segregation
As Black History month draws to a close, we should highlight a Wilsonian trend in policy that is relevant to President Woodrow Wilson’s national and international outlook—segregation.
Racially Stacked New Deal
A chapter in Black History not likely to be taught in many classrooms or lecture halls anytime soon, in February or any other month.
Another Lesson On Lessing
Last Fall, I wrote that the Nobel Prize was awarded to writer Doris Lessing, now an anti-communist critical of feminists, for her earlier Marxism and feminism. Predictably, a reader from academe disagreed.
UNschooling
Beverly Eakman’s new book, Walking Targets, is a detailed and accurate description of the troubling
and dangerous state of education in contemporary United
States of America.
New Deal Role Models
Who compared President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal to both Stalinist communism and Adolph Hitler’s Nazi program in the same sentence? Why, none other than FDR himself.
Herbert Hoover and Media
President Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) had some encouraging words for discouraged citizens plagued by today’s one-sided approach to media.
Lost Years
Charles Enderlin’s The Lost Years: Radical Islam, Intifada, and Wars in the Middle East 2001-2006 comes as a fresh of breath air in these oft-polluted journalistic times.
Choices Not Echoes
Only 68 percent of 9th graders graduate high school on time, and of that number, a mere 40 percent enroll directly into college.