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Librarians who allow their personal politics to control or curtail the provision of information violate neutrality and betray the public trust. A woke librarian is a contradiction in terms.

Weak Republicans in the Indiana Senate have effectively killed a strong CRT bill that easily passed the House and was cruising to final passage.

Nevertheless, diversity statements can be stopped. The wave of resistance to woke ideology coursing across the states can turn this troubling trend around.

Curriculum-transparency laws are essential, not only for enforcing state laws on CRT, action civics, and other specific topics, but for allowing any meaningful parental say over the content of education.

Behind the new history curricula lies the desire to replace pride in our Western and American heritage with a commitment to global citizenship.

Woke elites are only too eager to paint parents pushing back at woke excess in our schools as intolerant book-burners. Why not turn the tables by reviewing school libraries for leftist advocacy books, then balancing them with a more conservative point of view?

The parents of Loudoun County, Va., stand at the forefront of a movement with the power to reverse the decline of our constitutional republic, our traditions of liberty, our faith in ourselves, and ultimately, Western civilization itself. It is no accident that the weight of this struggle has fallen upon the shoulders of parents.

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem holds herself out as a tough-minded conservative reformer willing and able to stand up to America’s cultural elites. Unfortunately, when it comes to actually governing, the go-along-to-get-along GOP establishment continues to have Noem’s ear.

Leading historians are mischaracterizing a Texas law that seeks to prevent critical race theory–based indoctrination.

Control over zoning is a core function of local government, which means that federal and state efforts to choke off local control are direct assaults on our federalist system.

The University of Dallas is now a test case for the ability of faithfully Catholic liberal-arts education to withstand the assaults of the woke.

Hard-left activists have taken over the writing of K-12 history and civics standards in ruby-red South Dakota. Governor Kristi Noem’s administration has belatedly attempted to set things right, but the troubled standards are nowhere near fixed.