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One of the West’s Timeless Literary Classics Faces Attacks
Joseph Loconte writes for National Review Online about progressives’ distaste for one of the seminal works of Western literature. America’s founding generation absorbed Virgil (70–19 b.c.) and the lessons of…
Education
New Carolina Journal Online Features
Dallas Woodhouse reports for Carolina Journal Online on the latest round of election redistricting hearings. One CJ Opinion highlights Democratic contradictions in their responses to a bill targeting public school…
Education
Standing tall — at 3:45 pm on a Friday afternoon
Any good communications person will tell you if you want to bury a story, dump it on the news media late Friday afternoon. That’s exactly what Gov. Roy Cooper did…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Four Key Differences Between the House, Senate, and Cooper Budget Plans
The North Carolina General Assembly is still finalizing a two-year budget. Budget proposals from the House, Senate, and governor would have varying effects on North Carolina’s fiscal future. Spending restraint,…
Elections & Public Integrity
Details for Wednesday, September 15 Redistricting Hearings
I had previously posted that the General Assembly is hosting redistricting in Winston-Salem and Elizabeth City on Tuesday, September 14. The General Assembly is also hosting two redistricting hearings on…
Education
Martin Center Column Highlights Worthwhile Curriculum
Grattan Brown writes for the Martin Center about a curriculum worth following. At the start of students’ college careers, there are both good and bad unknowns. The good unknowns are…
Law & Public Safety
Why Powerful Natural Immunity Foils Any Case for Vaccine Passports
A growing body of research is making it increasingly clear that natural immunity to Covid-19 owing to previous infection is stronger, more durable, and broader than vaccine-induced immunity.
Elections & Public Integrity
Locke’d and Loaded: Democrats Seek to Overturn 2018 Voter ID Amendment in North Carolina
Four Democrat justices on the North Carolina Supreme Court could become the “Usurper Four” if they manage to remove two of their colleagues from a case involving constitutional amendments that…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
‘It’s the Inflation, Stupid’ Could Bite Biden’s Agenda
David Goldman writes for the Asia Times about the political impact of rising prices. Republicans and independents together comprise more than 70% of the American voting public, and their view…
Liberty
Google Bias Boggles the Mind
Christopher Rufo writes for City Journal about the latest example of Big Tech’s dangerous ideological bias. Technology giant Google has launched an “antiracism” initiative that presents speakers and materials claiming…
Liberty
Masks as Political Shaming Tool
Glenn Reynolds writes for the New York Post about the likelihood that masks will persist as a political tool. Masks, as Twitter wags have noted, are by now the equivalent…
Regulation
Regulatory Decluttering Beats Central Engineering
Ryan Streeter of the American Enterprise Institute explores a promising approach to public policy. Everyday people are always less ideological than policymakers in Washington want them to be. States often…