Liberty
Reading good literature to restore civic virtue
Casey Chalk writes for the Federalist about one way to boost civic virtue. Americans don’t read literature much any more. According to a YouGov survey, 40 percent of adults did…
The Great Gatsby
1925 novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Liberty
Chinese Firm Poised to Cash In from Biden Climate Plan
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon reports one little-known aspect of the Biden administration’s climate plan. When President Joe Biden pushed through nearly $400 billion in “green energy” subsidies…
Liberty
Trigger Warnings Get in the Way of Great Art
Ella Whelan writes for Spiked that great art is supposed to trigger uncomfortable reactions. … [T]he idea that art can and should surprise us in shocking or even hurtful ways…
Education
Bad Teaching Leads to Bad Learning: What a Shocker!
Natalie Wexler writes in the American Scholar magazine about why so many students struggle to learn in school. You’ll need a subscription to read the entire article, but this opening…
Liberty
Barron’s ‘Economic Beat’ writer highlights small business owners’ reaction to Trump
Gene Epstein of Barron’s probes the small business sector’s early reaction to the Trump presidency. Restored to life? The 325,000-member National Federation of Independent Business reported on Tuesday that its…
Education
The ‘End of Discussion’ on college campuses
Those of you who enjoyed Guy Benson and Mary Katharine Ham’s JLF speech this week on their book End of Discussion might appreciate the latest Atlantic cover story and a…
Budget, Taxation & Economy
Gates survey reveals teacher attitudes, challenges
Earlier to this week, Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation released Primary Sources: America’s Teachers on Teaching in an Era of Change, a report that details teacher attitudes…
Liberty
What Are They Striking For?
Enlightening data on the striking BART workers from the Washington Examiner. The workers have been on strike since Thursday, the latest action in the long-running talks. The strikers demanded a…
Liberty
What made Gatsby “great”?
Economist Mark Thornton explains here that it was government interference in the free market that enabled Jay Gatsby to become rich, in that case, Prohibition. Many other people (not just…
Liberty
Why we’re just hearing about Guilford inmate death
I posed that question last week, and this week the Rhino’s Scott Yost provides the answer– a confidentiality clause inserted into the $475k settlement with Guilford County at the request…
Liberty
Re: Cost of illegal immigration
As the Winston-Salem Journal headline reads, tensions ran high at Rockingham County Sheriff Sam Page’s showing of the documentary “They Come to America: The Cost of Illegal Immigration.” A shouting…
Liberty
Barron’s Epstein documents small business anxiety
If the American economy is improving, you won’t find much evidence within the data linked to small businesses. Gene Epstein delivers that message in his latest Barron’s “Economic Beat” column.…