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Liberty
Democrats struggle with wokeness
Stacey Lennox writes at PJMedia.com about the impact of the Democratic Party’s march to the left. It started directly after the 2020 election with losses in the House that many…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Tech companies focusing on profits over politics
Allison Shrager writes for City Journal about a welcome development in the tech world. Tech firms are returning to business models that focus on products and profits rather than politics…
Liberty
Canada, COVID, and police state dangers
Our neighbors to the north have good reason to worry about the long-term impact of government response to COVID-19. Andrea Widburg explains in an American Thinker column. Canada lacks the…
Liberty
Probing problems, opportunities tied to the ‘apocalyptic style’
Ryan Streeter writes at Law and Liberty about a problematic strand within American political discourse. The problem with the apocalyptic style—or even its slightly less adrenalized cousin, the paranoid style—of…
Education
Parents play critical role in fighting critical race theory
Auguste Meyrat writes for the Federalist about one important lesson to be learned from a Texas school district’s fight over skewed ideological instruction. [C]ritical race theory asserts that society is…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
New Carolina Journal Online features
Donna King reports for Carolina Journal Online on North Carolina’s nearly $1 billion incentive deal for Apple. John Hood’s CJ Opinion explains how conspiracy theories damage democracy.
Regulation
How Biden intends to rule by regulatory dark matter
It's a disturbing act for a president to beat back transparency and restore ruling in the shadows by guidance documents, interpretive statements, memos, and other things never formally introduced as…
Health Care
That didn’t age well!
Exactly one year ago, in How Long Will a Vaccine Really Take?, The New York Times provided detailed projections of how long it would take to develop an effective COVID-19 vaccine. The…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
If there’s a gas shortage this summer, this is why
I’m from a truck-driving family. My dad worked in the fields harvesting crops for many years, but he was finally able to move up to driving a delivery truck and…
Education
An academic transparency requirement for public schools is long overdue
This week, Reps. Hugh Blackwell, John Torbett, Jon Hardister, and Jeffrey Elmore filed House Bill 755: Academic Transparency. The bill would require teachers to post instructional materials used during the…
Research Brief
Education
How much do teachers make in North Carolina? It depends who you ask
For 2020-21, North Carolina’s average teacher salary is $54,392, which is ranked 34th in the nation according to the National Education Association. The statewide average salary increased by around 21…
Education
Martin Center column questions faculty hiring boom in polarized time
Neetu Arnold writes for the Martin Center about a troubling aspect of plans to step up hiring of new college faculty members. Most businesses and the general public had a…