College students are on an alarming path of equating words with weapons and supporting politically-motivated violence to stop “harmful speech.” Even before the assassination of Turning Point USA founder and free speech champion Charlie Kirk, college students have increasingly seen free speech as an enemy of safety and security. The free speech group Freedom of […]
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Author’s Note: This article originally appeared in my weekly Top of Mind newsletter, which goes out to subscribers every Thursday. Sign up to receive it directly in your inbox. A $10 billion educational juggernaut promising to soothe young minds amid rising anxiety rates has taken America’s classrooms hostage. It’s called Social and Emotional Learning (SEL). SEL’s […]
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Both facts and rhetoric often shape the public discourse on thorny topics. In fact, no subject other than race illustrates the gulf of differences between the two. On one hand, adherents to a race-based dogma demand top-down filtering of socioeconomic policies and culturally acceptable viewpoints through the lens of race. To the left, observed disparities […]
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