Commentary

Parent Trigger Agonistes: School Reform Hits a Wall

By Ben Boychuk
Thursday, August 06 2015

Parents shouldn’t be stuck with poor public schools for their children. In theory, public schools exist to school the public — to give the young the skills they need to live and flourish in a self-governing republic. Ideally, parents should have the option to send their kids to the school of their choice, whether public, private or parochial. In practice, many schools act as warehouses for kids and jobs programs for unionized workers. Empowering parents to break the status quo and disrupt the public school monopoly has been an important innovation in education reform. California had…

Obama's Climate Hubris

	This week, President Obama is hailing his Clean Power Plan as "the single most important step America…
	Read more...

What's More Offensive Than Huckabee's Holocaust Remark? Obama's Iran Deal

	In an interview with Breitbart News, Mike Huckabee accused President Barack Obama of being "naïve"…
	Read more...

Is Destruction of Records Congenital to Liberals?

	Is concealment and destruction of official government records somehow congenital to the contemporary…
	Read more...

Bernie Sanders: Socialist, Nationalist, Romantic

	Bernie Sanders is attracting crowds. The avowed socialist U.S. Senator from Vermont may be running a…
	Read more...

The Iran Deal and America’s Crisis of Self-Government

	There are plenty of good reasons to be depressed over the recent deal hammered out in Vienna to address…
	Read more...

Obama Cronyism + Your Personal Data = Trouble

	It's the most far-reaching scandal in Washington that no one wants to talk about: Tens of millions of…
	Read more...

Documented Irresponsibility

	People who entered the United States illegally may be called "undocumented" in politically…
	Read more...

Americans Understand Iran a Lot Better Than John Kerry

	At a Tehran mosque last week, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei -- amid chants of "death to America" and…
	Read more...

Meet the Censors: The Harvard Law Prof Who Would Reshape American Politics

	Meet Lawrence Lessig. A decade ago, the Harvard Law professor was a prominent legal scholar in the field…
	Read more...

The Fact-Free Left: Part II

	There is no way to know what is going on in someone else's mind. But sometimes their behavior tells you…
	Read more...

More Commentary...

« Prev 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 Next »

Notable Quote

"Worries around artificial intelligence cross party lines, with the vast majority of Americans saying the U.S. government should prioritize keeping AI under human control and protecting workers.A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that most Americans, 64%, think AI is developing 'too fast,' while 27% say its development has been 'about right' and only…[more]

— Barbara Ortutay and Linley Sanders, Associated Press

Liberty Poll