Only a loser would think that an elite’s admission of bad behavior in the past, beyond the time of correction, is a win.

"Taxpayer dollars can't go to religious schools." *Our taxpayer-funded schools will teach your boys that they may actually be girls deep inside.* Our public schools have never been more religious and sectarian than they are right now. nationalreview.com/2024/08/colora…

Daniel Buck on the literacy problem, on today’s podcast: firstthings.com/blogs/firsttho…

Do what Silicon Valley titans to: keep phones away from your kids as long as you can.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has now admitted publicly that moderators at Facebook and Instagram faced vast pressure from the federal government to take down contrarian COVID-19 content, election-related content—including jokes and satire—as well as the Hunter Biden laptop story.

"The trustees are a golden opportunity for change—not prestigious appointments reserved for prosperous, well-connected individuals loyal to the institution." philanthropydaily.com/philanthropy-a…

Add the pseudo-science in the (still progressivist) field of education to the mix.

It's interesting that Kamala believes the path to victory is to adopt conservative rhetoric on migration, taxes, policing, energy, and patriotism. It's entirely disingenuous, but the upside is that even our opponents believe the political center of gravity tilts to the Right.

FIRE's new survey of 59k college students is out. Unfortunately, a significant percentage of them have disastrously illiberal ideas about free speech. - 32% said that using violence to stop a campus speech is acceptable to some degree — up from 27% last year and 20% two years

The Anxious Generation is #1 again on the NYT nonfiction hardcover and audiobook lists. That's 23 weeks in a row in the top 4. Parents and teachers are reading it in groups and taking collective action. For guidance on actions to take, see anxiousgeneration.com/take-action

What happened to the anti-DEI bill that passed the SC house in March?

Professor James D. Hunter on our civic crisis, on today's podcast: firstthings.com/blogs/firsttho…

More on the trustee solution: mindingthecampus.org/2024/09/04/tru…

Kamala Harris has (finally) released a policy agenda. It touts Biden’s embrace of minority contracting and suggests Harris would increase the use of racial set asides, awarding contracts to firms based on the race of their owners rather than the quality of their services.

Poetry is a memory technology to remember, as Robert Frost says, what it would impoverish us to forget.

To hear Wilfred Reilly, Mark Bauerlein, and myself discuss contemporary crime trends at New College of Florida on Tuesday October 8 at 6pm, General Admission is free, but reservations are advised. eventbrite.com/e/new-college-…

David Barnhizer details the intellectual condition of higher ed, on today's podcast: firstthings.com/media/barnhizer

Cussing is not an authentic expression of emotion, not when it’s as common as dirt.

Yes, ban them in every school in the country: theepochtimes.com/opinion/the-ba…

Read the full story about the federal funds driving the Aurora migrant crisis, exclusively in City Journal: city-journal.org/article/chaos-…