Education and American Ideals publication

For too long, we’ve granted a blinkered ideological minority a power over our public universities that is not rightly theirs.

Surveys now show that up to two-thirds of students approve of shouting down campus speakers, while almost a quarter believe that violence can be used to cancel a speech.

Conservatives lost the commanding heights of the culture for many reasons, but failure to fight back against the leftist education establishment, even where we held the levers of power, is surely among the most important.

The economy may still be at the center of our politics, but the culture war’s share seems to grow each year.

The wording of the current version of the Civics Secures Democracy Act has been tweaked a bit, yet the substance remains the same.

Action civics has become the hands-on do-it-yourself version of CRT.

Pompeo’s CSDA takedown shows impressive command of the issue.

DeSantis isn’t talking about formal curricular coercion via federal law or executive order. He’s talking about what amounts to a massive federal bribe via grants that incentivize CRT.

Public opposition from so prominent a Republican office-holder as Ron DeSantis may break the logjam and shift momentum against this dangerous bill.

Political manners seem to be growing subservient to the threat of violence. It feels like the 1850s.