With President Biden’s approval, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) extended a “moratorium” on landlords evicting tenants until October 3, 2021. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky justified the measure by citing the quick spreading of the new Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus. She said that “This moratorium is the right thing to do to keep … Read more
Many educational reformers believe that the best solution for American education is allowing “school choice.” Let parents choose their children’s schools, and the free market would soon separate the successful from the failed schools. However, the recent case of Peltier v. Charter Day School, Inc. illustrates a fundamental flaw in that assumption. This decision dictating … Read more
Throughout the summer of 2021, the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property (TFP) worked to focus the world’s attention on Cuba. Its petition for Cuba’s freedom grew in intensity in the wake of the protests across Cuba on July 11-12, the most massive unrest in decades. The Cuban government responded by … Read more
The blurred line between political activism and scholarship is often hard to avoid. That tendency seems on display at Harvard University. A Well Worn Path The case is the “Project on Psychedelics Law and Regulation” (POPLAR). The medical school isn’t doing this research, nor is the public health faculty. The law school is behind this … Read more
“The revolution is not born from a stable society of whole persons. It comes from a divided society that is populated by a wounded citizenry who see revolution as their righteous solution.” This is one of many quote-worthy statements in the book Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology by … Read more
If there is one issue that unites the left, it is support for the communist regime in Cuba. Leftists can see the most appalling misery on the island and magically turn it into a workers’ paradise. This transformation continues even as unrest in Cuba erupts. Leftists everywhere are doubling down on their support as the … Read more
Nate Bowling sees the current national controversy over Critical Race Theory (CRT) in simple terms. “It’s white backlash plus moral panic.” Mr. Bowling is not an uninformed observer. He is a social studies teacher and the 2016 “Teacher of the Year” for the State of Washington. He was quoted in the school administrators’ “trade paper,” … Read more
The left is abandoning Critical Race Theory—at least in name. At least for now. Critical Race Theory (CRT) was always a lie. It places resentments, distortions and prejudices at the center of a historical “narrative” and embroiders a new pseudo-history around them, favoring class struggle. The eminent Italian historian Roberto de Mattei sums up this … Read more
Balance and order are hallmarks of the Christian life. Indeed, we hear that we are to be in the world but not of the world. Those who only think of this world are doomed to secular nihilism. Those who think only of the next are unable to feed and clothe themselves. Order enables members of … Read more
The children’s cable television network, Nickelodeon, has gone “all-in” on its support of the homosexual agenda while its ratings have plummeted. This drastic change should be a major story. Hollywood should take action. Nickelodeon’s rating chart tells the tale. For the week ending January 15, 2017, its average audience was 1.2 million viewers. Three-and-a-half years … Read more
