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Responding to Defenders of the Federal Civics Bill

Stanley Kurtz

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

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National Review Online / August 2, 2022

How Stacey Abrams Hijacked Civics

Stanley Kurtz

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

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National Review / July 26, 2022

Pompeo Impressive on Civics Bill

Stanley Kurtz

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

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National Review / July 13, 2022

PolitiFact’s Failed Attack on DeSantis over Civics Education

Stanley Kurtz

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.

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National Review / July 11, 2022

DeSantis Blasts Fake Civics Bill

Stanley Kurtz

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

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National Review / July 7, 2022

Bogus ‘Civics’ Bill Will Push CRT on States

Stanley Kurtz

Unless America’s parents wake up and make themselves heard now, there is a very real chance that CRT could be the new Common Core by summer.

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National Review Online / June 21, 2022

Ron DeSantis Can Save America’s Universities

Stanley Kurtz

Up to now, it’s been impossible to craft a program of higher-ed reform that weakens the intellectual monopoly currently controlling our universities, without also undermining the principles of intellectual freedom that make the university a worthy institution to begin with.

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National Review / June 14, 2022

The Dumbest Generation Grows Up Is One Smart Book

Stanley Kurtz

In his new book, Mark Bauerlein explains the left-utopianism of young Americans more by what they are not learning than by what they’re actually taught.

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National Review Online / May 20, 2022

Gender Identity Policy Under the Biden Administration

Rachel N. Morrison

With the Equality Act facing difficult odds in the Senate, the Biden administration has imposed its gender identity policies through its regulatory and enforcement powers. These policies largely ignore competing interests or rights of women, children, and religious organizations and persons.

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How to Discipline the Yale Law School Shout-Down

Stanley Kurtz

Substantial evidence indicates that this was a genuine shout-down, that Yale’s rules were violated, and that the students involved merit discipline.

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National Review Online / March 24, 2022

How to Discipline the Yale Law School Shout-Down

Stanley Kurtz

Yale Law School’s rules of discipline offer an unusual opportunity for students of principle and pluck to turn the tide against cancel culture.

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National Review Online / March 23, 2022

Bill to Federalize CRT Must Be Stopped

Stanley Kurtz

It looks like a federal CRT bill is around the corner.

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National Review Online / March 8, 2022