The dangers of childhood cell phone use are becoming evident to the vast majority of American parents. The Commonwealth of Virginia is taking a leading role in dealing with that problem. As someone who has followed this issue for years, first as a teacher in a Maryland public high school and then … Read more
Shortly after noon on December 10, 1949, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek boarded an airplane in Chengdu. Mao Zedong and his Red Army were rapidly advancing on the few positions on the Chinese mainland still held by Chiang’s Nationalists. Chiang and his son made the short trip to the island of Taiwan, 110 miles … Read more
Russia is weak and growing weaker every day. This evaluation is not directly related to the usual measures of national strength—wealth, military resources or occupied land—nor is it merely wishful thinking. Academics have a name for Russia’s core issue: demographics. Recipe for Disaster Demographics is the study of population and its change … Read more
In April 2022, a video clip circulated showing former First Lady and Secretary of State Hilary Roddam Clinton endorsing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the presidency. The idea of the leftist Democrat promoting the candidacy of a conservative Republican raised more than a few eyebrows. However, given the public profiles of Mrs. … Read more
Amid a growing trend in immodest dress and restrictions on traditional Catholic liturgy, a resurgence in the popularity of chapel veils and mantillas for women has been highlighted by secular media and described as a return to the “Biblical.” A recent study published by The Free Press reported on observations made regarding … Read more
“Everybody is afraid of these environmental groups and the fear that it may look wrong if you fight back with these people, but what they did to us is wrong, and they’re gonna pay for it.” The speaker is Kelcy Warren. He runs Energy Transfer, which moves so-called fossil fuels from one … Read more
The award-winning book Return to Order, written by American author John Horvat II, has been translated into Brazilian Portuguese. The book analyzes the present-day crisis and proposes solutions based on the concept of an organic Christian society. The Livraria Petrus imprint has published the new edition in São Paulo, Brazil. The book … Read more
“Divestment is not an incrementalist goal. True divestment necessitates nothing short of the total collapse of the university structure and American empire itself…to divest from this is to undermine and eradicate America as we know it.” Those statements comprised the beginning and the end of an entry placed on the social media … Read more
The education press is all abuzz about “chronic absenteeism.” As is usual with conversations among the educationists and educrats, they miss the point entirely. Occasionally, they ask the right questions, but their philosophies don’t provide answers, just new psychological dilemmas. “Skipping school” is nothing new. I vividly remember high school freshman orientation … Read more
The United States education system is corrupted from top to bottom. That is a strong statement but one that is quite easy to defend. The evidence is all around. This article will focus on one aspect of that corruption: grade inflation. Indeed, the present system of awarding grades is disintegrating. In a … Read more