Tag: politics
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Education in America – Part Six
Part 6: Why So Many Parents No Longer Trust Public Education Public trust is rarely destroyed by a single event. It is worn down by repeated contradiction. Parents are told that schools are committed to excellence, yet many see weak academic results. They are told that schools welcome partnership, yet too often experience opacity, delay, and condescension…
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Education in America – Part Five
The Child Does Not Belong to the State A free society must answer certain questions correctly or it will soon answer many others wrongly. One of those questions is this: who bears the first responsibility for the child? The answer is not the school district, the state agency, the licensing body, the union, or the educational theorist.…
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Education in America – Part Four
When the Classroom Becomes a Political Stage A classroom is not a campaign office, a protest rally, or a stage on which adults perform their moral identity before a captive audience of minors. Its first obligation is instruction. That does not mean politics must never be discussed. On the contrary, any serious education in history,…
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Education in America – Part Three
Part 3: From Reading and Arithmetic to Therapy and Activism There was a time when the purpose of a school could be stated without embarrassment. Children were sent there to learn to read, to write, to count, to know something of the world that existed before they arrived, and to acquire habits of mind that would serve them when novelty had…
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Education in America – Part One
The Real Crisis in American Education Is Not Money, but Mission Ask most parents what school is for, and the answer is usually plain enough. A school exists to teach children to read with understanding, write with clarity, reckon with numbers, know something of history and science, and grow into adults capable of sound judgment. That…
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Restoring Minnesota: Christians’ Role in Civic Debacle
Having been born and raised in Roseville, Minnesota, I watch the events unfold in my former home with keen interest of late. I have watched with dismay and a strong sense of wonder on how the land I have loved has fallen into such ill repute and chaos. Minnesotans do not need to be told…
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Moral Confusion in Modern Times: A Rebuke of False Equivalence
The Event and Its Distorted Message In August, outside an Arlington County School Board meeting in Virginia, a small protest formed over a proposal to restrict transgender students from using bathrooms that do not align with their biological sex. Among the counter-protesters stood a man holding a hand-drawn sign that read, “Hey Winsome, if trans can’t…
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Charlie Kirk (1993-2025)
Before the words, the fact: Charlie Kirk was shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah, on today, September 10, 2025, and later died of his wounds. Authorities say a single round was fired from a nearby building while he was speaking about gun violence; a person of interest is in…
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A Word of Correction for the Soul in Error
There is a grievous danger in the modern practice of chaining eternal truth to the wagon of cultural fashion, and nowhere is that danger more evident than in the proclamations of those who clothe political ideology in the language of Christian virtue. Ms. Staci Abrams, former candidate for Governor in the great state of Georgia,…
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The Triumph of Reason and Fairness in Women’s Athletics
A Thankful Reflection Today is a good day. There are moments in history, quiet but unmistakable, when truth stirs from its long slumber, shakes off the scorn of the fashionable lie, and rises to speak again. The news that the University of Pennsylvania has agreed to bar biological males from competing in women’s sports is…
Seeking Truth in Today's Troubled World 