Written by R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
According to the Washington Times — also known as the Good Times — last week, the Biden administration made plans “to offer grants for U.S. history classes that teach critical race theory and the ‘1619 Project,'” which is a confection of The New York Times. Both critical race theory and “The 1619 Project” are based on the fundamental insight that slavery is, according to the Washington Times, “the centerpiece of the American narrative.”… Continue Reading
Tags: Barack Obama, Booker T. Washington, critical race theory, John Lewis, Julius Rosenwald, Maya Angelou, Medgar Evers, Sears Roebuck and Co., The 1619 Project, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tony Lawless, Tuskegee Institute, Washington Times
Education | David E. Smith | 
April 29, 2021 8:00 AM | 
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Written by Robert Knight
I was saddened last month upon hearing of the death of Norton Juster, most famous for his superb children’s book “The Phantom Tollbooth.”
Illustrated by Juster’s friend, Jules Feiffer, the book takes a boy, Milo, through a fantastic journey in his miniature car into the Kingdom of Wisdom, divided into Dictionopolis, where words are supreme, and Digitopolis, where numbers rule.
Published in 1961, “Phantom” is whimsical, fast moving and, as far as I know, non-ideological.… Continue Reading
Tags: Anastasia Higginbotham, Anna Hurley, Antiracist Baby, Ashley Lukashevsky, Baby Taurus, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Chris Van Dusen, Daria Harper, Denise Shick, Dr. Seuss, Ibram Kendi, Jules Feiffer, King & King, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Little Zodiac, Meghan Cox Gurdon, Michael Joosten, Norton Juste, Phantom, Queer Heroes, The Circus Ship, The Little Red Hen, The Phantom Tollbooth, The Wall Street Journal, Vladimir Lenin, Wednesday Holmes, Yana Popova
Education | David E. Smith | April 27, 2021 7:00 AM | Comments Off on LGBTQ Ideologues’ Propaganda Brainwashing The Young, and Younger Still
Written by Sarah Lilly
For the past year, parents and students across the county, mostly in Democrat-run municipalities, have been experiencing excessive levels of stress due to unending school closures. Red states like Florida, Texas, and South Dakota have been open for months. Meanwhile, the teacher’s unions have a stranglehold on the public schools in Democrat states, refusing to open for a litany of absurd reasons.
Part of me sympathizes with the conservative parents who are struggling to cope with working from home and the online curriculum management of their children.… Continue Reading
Tags: 1619 Project, COVID, Dr. Seuss, Gavin Newsom, Ibram X. Kendi, Joe Biden, Kathleen Valencia, Nicole Hannah Jones, Project Veritas, Robin DiAngelo, white supremacist ideology, white supremacy
Education | David E. Smith | March 5, 2021 7:00 AM | Comments Off on The Case for Closing Public Schools… Indefinitely
Written by Benjamin Smith
The Illinois State Board of Education has approved the proposed “Culturally Responsive Teaching and Leading Standards” amendment, and on February 16, JCAR (Illinois’ Joint Committee on Administrative Rules) will vote on its ratification. Dr. Eric Wallace joins Monte Larrick to explain why adopting these “standards” will shift the focus from teaching foundational academics and fostering critical thinking skills to promoting Critical Race Theory and “woke” perspectives that dismiss objective truth. Additionally, they discuss how Illinois parents and taxpayers can most effectively stand against the leftist agenda of student indoctrination.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
It may be Christmastime, but our ruling elites are keeping up their campaign of cultural cleansing.
Not even Honest Abe is safe.
In San Francisco, a committee tasked to rid the school system of now-disgraced public figures at 44 sites says that a high school named after Abraham Lincoln, who freed the slaves and held America together through the Civil War, ought to drop the Great Emancipator.
“Lincoln, like the presidents before him and most after, did not show through policy or rhetoric that Black lives ever mattered to them outside of human capital and as casualties of wealth building,” explained first-grade teacher Jeremiah Jeffries, chairman of the renaming committee.… Continue Reading
Tags: 1619 Project, Abraham Lincoln, African Methodist Episcopal Church, Asbury United Methodist Church, Black Lives Matter, Cultural Marxism, Dan Snyder, Dianne Feinstein, Francis Scott Key, Franklin D. Roosevelt, George Floyd, George Washington, James Garfield, James Monroe, John Muir, Junipero Serra, National Football League, Paul Revere, Proud Boys, Teddy Roosevelt, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Thomas Jefferson, Washington Redskins, William H. Lamar IV, William McKinley
Education, Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | December 21, 2020 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Ruling Elites Continue Cultural Cleansing Rampage And Not Even Honest Abe Is Safe
Written by Dr. Everett Piper
On July 27, 2020, Timothy Snediker, philosophy of religion teacher at the University of California, Santa Barbara, responded to a survey posted on Twitter that asked the following question: “If you were dropped 2000 years back in time with nothing but the knowledge you have now, what would you do?”
Mr. Snediker’s answer? “Easy, I would find and assassinate Jesus of Nazareth.”
Mr. Snediker then immediately followed up with a second tweet to drive home his point: “Theologically speaking, it would be really important to get him before his calling and ministry begins, so that gives me roughly a decade to make it to Palestine, locate the man, and make my move …”
It is interesting to note that after posting his comments, Mr. … Continue Reading
Written by Walter E. Williams
There is very little new under the sun. The monument and statue destruction that we are witnessing has been witnessed in other times and other places. A tyrant’s first battlefield is to rewrite history. Most notable were the political purges of Joseph Stalin. The Soviet government erased figures from Soviet history by renaming cities — such as the Imperial capital of St. Petersburg to Petrograd and Leningrad and Stalingrad — and eradicating memories of czarist rule.… Continue Reading
Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Tribune, Clarence Page, Cleveland Indians, Elihu Yale, George Mason University, George Washington, History, ISIS, Joseph Stalin, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Yankee, Taliban, Thomas Jefferson, Walter E. Williams, Woodrow Wilson
Education | David E. Smith | August 5, 2020 5:00 AM | Comments Off on Leftist Effort to Revise American History
Written by Peter Heck
When the great American experiment in liberty officially comes to an end, there will be plenty of finger-pointing and blame-assigning taking place. Plenty of Founding Fathers observed that the natural progression of things was for government to grow and liberty to contract. But when we’re wanting to pinpoint what institutions, what things played the biggest part in facilitating the demise of freedom, I am going to predict that a fair reading of history will show that few entities had a bigger hand in destroying our civilization than the American university system.… Continue Reading
