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At Ivy League Yale University, according to Mike LaChance on Legal Insurrection, administrators outnumber faculty and match undergraduate students one for one. This development was predictable. The government poured money into the industry. Competent faculty members were already not difficult to find, so the money was able to go elsewhere, and administrators making decisions about unneeded…
Stephen Green shares a truck driver’s explanation of just how slow the problem will be to solve. Green sums up the problem well, with this: We’ve over-invested in red tape, under-invested in infrastructure, and taught at least two generations of young people that jobs like trucking are somehow beneath them. The government can try to…
One major point of concern in recent years for anybody who cares about the future has to be our diminishing agreement about patriotism. In the past few years, radicals have increasingly mainstreamed the notion that the America flag is a symbol of hate and racism, especially when flown on trucks. Some Americans get the creeps…
My very few personal interactions with Parker Gavin over the years have confirmed that he’s a great guy, and it hardly needs my affirmation that he’s been a great reporter for WJAR. That said, I continue to believe it’s harmful to our system of government when journalists see work for government and politicians as one…
In a healthy society, not only would this sort of statement be disqualifying, but a presidential administration would know not even to put such a nomination forward: Saule Omarova, Democrat President Joe Biden’s Marxist-friendly nominee to lead the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, said earlier this year that she wants oil and gas…
The past decade or so has been remarkable in the degree to which events have shed light on ideas and principles that used to be opaque and abstract. Yesterday, I observed how radicals took advantage of the education system’s vulnerability to accelerate their plans, which begins to fill in explanatory pieces of the puzzle. Although…
Note this closing paragraph, reported as fact, at the end of Melanie DaSivla’s WPRI report on Rhode Island officials’ glee at the anticipated influx of borrowed money for infrastructure from the federal government: The transformational legislation will also create millions of good-paying, union jobs across the country, reduce inflationary economic pressures, and ease supply chain…
Stacy Langton, who went viral when she read from school library books at a school committee meeting (without censoring the material), has reportedly been banned from entering the library at her son’s school. At the same time, I’m hearing from parents in Rhode Island who seem surprised about the relentlessness of schools’ push to complete…
Overthrowing a system of legal equality and regulated freedom for one centered around “control” and progressives’ tendency to dehumanize the enemy go hand in hand.
Approach Paloma Esquivel’s Los Angeles Times article about schools’ “ditching the old way of grading” with the appropriately skeptical eye, and it produces a curious effect. On one hand, teachers’ desire seems reasonable to conduct a true assessment of what students have learned rather than relying on a rigid grading system that reflects their ability to perform…