This week, the Trump v. Barbara’s decision regarding birthright citizenship surprised observers, as Justices Roberts and Barrett departed from the conservative vote. Sami and Victor discuss potential motivations for the justices’ defections and the detrimental incentive structures of American immigration. In addition, they explore what “democrat” really means, the case of trans athlete AB Hernandez,… Continue reading Roberts and Coney Barret’s Defection in the Birthright Citizenship Decision
John Brennan’s ‘Rendezvous’ With Accountability Couldn’t Come Sooner
The U.S. Department of Justice’s probe into the former CIA chief will hopefully lay bare John Brennan’s sins, which were years in the making. “We got to remember that this is a man that went before Congress under oath as head of the CIA, and had the CIA under his direction spying on U.S. senators.… Continue reading John Brennan’s ‘Rendezvous’ With Accountability Couldn’t Come Sooner
Education Is the Transmission of Culture, So Are We Still Passing Down What Matters?
Education is “inherently a historical project” because it’s the generational passing down of culture. This “transmission of culture,” or classical liberal education, has been eroded over the past century, however, explains Andrew Zwerneman, president of Cana Academy. “The first major assault came with the progressivist movement which increasingly divorced education from religion and increasingly made… Continue reading Education Is the Transmission of Culture, So Are We Still Passing Down What Matters?
The Rise of America’s ‘Alternative’ Classical Schools | Deacon Christopher Roberts
Why is the classical education movement gathering so much steam in America right now? Deacon Christopher Roberts, classical education expert and president of Martin Saints Classical High School, argues that classical educators have an inner drive for communion with God, the eternal, and with each other and how this addresses America’s cultural crisis. Share This
The Danger of Dumbing Down American Students
VDH and Jack continue their ranking of the “Sour 16” to determine which issues pose the greatest existential threat to the United States in 2026. We’ve now entered ROUND 2 of the bracket, the “Hate 8.” Here’s the list: Rogue Nukes versus Ruin of Cities Gain-of-Function bio-weapon pandemic versus Destruction of the nuclear family Growth… Continue reading The Danger of Dumbing Down American Students
Can The Current Universities Be Saved?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Elite higher education in America—long unquestioned as globally preeminent—is facing a perfect storm. Fewer applicants, higher costs, impoverished students, collapsing standards, and increasingly politicized and mediocre faculty reflect a collapse of the university system. The country is waking up to the reality that a bachelor’s degree no longer equates with… Continue reading Can The Current Universities Be Saved?
Can We Do Anything About America’s Decline?
Victor Davis Hanson American Greatness Twenty-first-century America was on a trajectory of gradual decline—until it began to implode. Was the accelerant the COVID-19 pandemic and unhinged lockdowns? Or was the catalyst the woke revolution fueled by the 2020 summer of exempted rioting, looting, arson, and violence? Or was it perhaps the deranged fixation on removing… Continue reading Can We Do Anything About America’s Decline?
The Troubling Plight of the Modern University
Today’s campus is more reactionary than the objects of its frequent vituperation. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Employment rates for college graduates are dismal. Aggregate student debt is staggering. But university administrative salaries are soaring. The campus climate of tolerance has utterly disappeared. Only the hard sciences and graduate schools have salvaged… Continue reading The Troubling Plight of the Modern University
The Outdated Business Model of Diversity, Inc.
In today’s divided society, universities would be wise to stress unity and academic rigor. by Victor Davis Hanson // National Review Online Diversity has become corporatized on American campuses, with scores of bureaucrats and administrators accentuating different pedigrees and ancestries. That’s odd, because diversity no longer means “variety” or “points of difference,” in the way it… Continue reading The Outdated Business Model of Diversity, Inc.
The Death of the Humanities
A liberal arts education was once a gateway to wisdom; now it can breed ignorance and arrogance. by Victor Davis Hanson // Defining Ideas The humanities are in their latest periodic crisis. Though the causes of the ongoing decline may be debated, everyone accepts the dismal news about eroding university enrollments, ever fewer new faculty positions,… Continue reading The Death of the Humanities