Of all the good opinion pieces on the answers by the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, and MIT to the question, “Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard’s rules of bullying and harassment, yes or no?” (and analogous questions for the other two schools), the very best essay is “Au Revoir, […]
In a recent lecture entitled “During These Turbulent Times, What Is The One Thing the Child Needs To Know?,” Montessori teacher and author Charlotte Cushman brilliantly integrates epistemology and pedagogy. Before I could get around to posting the above recommendation, a second reason to write about Charlotte has arisen. The woke in the Montessori world […]
Expel the state-run university, save your freedom. The video embedded below is an expanded version of a talk I gave on August 5, 2021, bidding farewell to Cedar City, Utah. I left this rural town because critical race theory has thoroughly infected the local state-run university, Southern Utah University. To save the town, local citizens […]
Some readers of this blog may wonder why I have not written recently on politics. Sadly, the disastrous Biden administration is a predictable sequel to the Obama administration, which I blogged about for eight years. Thankfully, I live in relocated to a red dot in a red state, where Biden got less than 20% of […]
In a recent article in American Thinker, my good friend Charlotte Cushman writes, Choosing popularity instead of reality leads to the mob mentality we are seeing today. The educational approach that is used in schools is highly influential in the choice the child makes. Much has been written to explain how “progressive education” indoctrinates children […]