Opinion

On the Hazards of Teaching Reading

Recently, some friends of mine with a 4-year-old daughter decided to homeschool and asked for my advice on finding a good preschool program....

Sam Blumenfeld August 8, 2012

Arthur Laffer: Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Proves He Still Has Much to Learn

Thomas R. Eddlem August 8, 2012

Supply Side economics school godfather Arthur Laffer penned an op-ed column for the Wall Street Journal August 6 that claims increases in government spending inhibited economic...

Boston Fed President Calls for More “Stimulus”

Bob Adelmann August 8, 2012

After reviewing the weak jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) that was released last Friday, the president of the Federal...

Marriage and Divorce: a Look at Arguments Long Forgotten

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. August 7, 2012

With the issue of gay "marriage" assuming national significance, we would be well served to familiarize ourselves with the arguments of 19th-century conservative...

Sports Versus Politics

Thomas Sowell August 7, 2012

It has long seemed to me that there is far more rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in...

Corporate Welfare Spending Hits $100 Billion in FY 2012

Brian Koenig August 6, 2012

Federal subsidies distributed to the private sector in Fiscal Year 2012 cost American taxpayers nearly $100 billion, according to a startling new report...

Olympic Hypocrisy: Jokes and Jews Need Not Apply

Selwyn Duke August 6, 2012

Evident in Olympic rule application is something I wrote about mere days ago: the triumph of Muslim absolutism over Western relativism. Whether Muslims...

Rand Paul Takes On the TSA

Wallis W. Wood August 5, 2012

Senator Rand Paul began with a story that got a huge laugh from standing-room-only crowd at FreedomFest. “As you may know,” he said,...

Movie Review: “Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days”

Raven Clabough August 3, 2012

The latest installment of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, Dog Days, proves to be an entertaining film, particularly for avid readers...

Al-Qaeda and Liberals Agree: Kill Kids for the Cause

Selwyn Duke August 3, 2012

Liberals are no strangers to using children to relate political messages, as the 2008 videos of kids singing for and paying homage to...

Humanistic Psychology in the Schools (Part 2)

Sam Blumenfeld August 3, 2012

One of the reasons why we know so much about Humanistic Psychology today is because of the defection of one of its major...

Humanistic Psychology in the Schools

Sam Blumenfeld August 2, 2012

The cultural upheavals of the 1960s saw the rise of a so-called Third Force in American education. The leading figures of the Third...

The Campaign Against Chick-fil-A

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. August 1, 2012

The phenomenally successful restaurant franchise Chick-fil-A is once again at the center of national controversy. And, once again, it is a controversy generated...