I first wrote it half in jest, but the joke’s been getting more serious every time I repeat it: bulldoze the universities. They’re beyond redemption by now, frankly. That’s not going to happen, of course. Sadly. But prospective students still have the ultimate power: the power of
Christian Toto newsbusters.org Megyn Kelly has a personal gripe with the woke mob. It essentially ended her broadcast career in 2018. Kelly, then working with NBC News, downplayed outrage over children dressing in blackface in ways that enraged the social justice warriors of that time. “Truly, you do get
Alwyn Poole Alwyn Poole founded and was the head of Mt Hobson Middle School in Auckland for 18 years. MH Academy is now an in person private school for Year 11–13. There is now a nationwide online provision called Mt Hobson Academy Connected for Years 1–13. alwynpoole.substack.
As I wrote recently, Harvard is finding out the hard way that its sickening tolerance for the most violent anti-Semitic attacks in nearly a century is hardly endearing them to wealthy Jewish Americans. The same wealthy Jewish Americans who help keep the Ivy League rolling in money. Several, such as
We are a group of parents with children at Mellons Bay School. In Term 3 2023, Mellons Bay School approved their “Inclusive Education” Policy which will require everyone to use preferred pronouns for transgender staff and students. When a parent wrote to ask, “Will children be disciplined for not using
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com London in the autumn is decidedly pleasant. Despite almost annual trips to the British capital from the late ‘nineties ’90s
Imagine if you bought a car, and it turned out to not only have lousy mileage, it kept breaking down completely. Every time you take it back to the dealer’s mechanic, it only gets worse. The mechanic keeps stiffing you for more and more money, yet the distance between
Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator mercatornet.com “I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body. For this I had deprived myself of rest and health. I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation;
As I wrote recently, major US law firms are no longer too keen on hiring Harvard or Stanford graduates. Mostly because they are all too aware that the cult of “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” has stifled critical thinking on US campuses. Graduates from elite universities are no longer the best
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org Stanley Zhong did everything right. A 4.42 weighted GPA (3.98 unweighted). A 1590 SAT score (1600 is perfect). He’d even launched his own startup (RabbitSign). Yet the
Kurt Mahlburg Kurt Mahlburg is a writer and author, and an emerging Australian voice on culture and the Christian faith. He has a passion for both the philosophical and the personal, drawing on his background as a graduate architect, a primary school teacher, a missionary, and a young adult pastor.
familyfirst.org.nz There’s increased violence in our schools. Students stood down or suspended for physically assaulting staff or students is on the rise. Some schools even have “fight clubs”. What’s the cause, and what are the solutions? Is family breakdown the underlying cause? What about the influence
Harry Palmer Near the end of my secondary schooling in the late 1950s, my English teacher was Mr Dooley. He was apparently required to also teach what’s now called ‘civics’ – how politics worked, how to take out a mortgage to buy a house, etc – and he gave us a
Bob Jones nopunchespulled.com Following the sell-out enrolment achieved for the initial one-year Diploma Course, SPEAKING SPARROW, starting next year, Waikato university Vice-Chancellor Neil Quigley has now announced another brilliantly innovative new six-month diploma, also to commence next year. This is a world first and expected to attract a heavy
David Rennie It seems as if yet another social contagion is sweeping the Western world. The way this normally happens is someone in the US starts something that is considered wonderfully woke and administrators, corporations, politicians and educators all jump on the bandwagon in order to let everyone know that
Gavin O’Reilly ronpaulinstitute.org On Thursday it was announced that the southern Irish state would roll out flu jabs to all schoolchildren under its jurisdiction, despite the fact that children are an age group at absolute minute risk of becoming seriously ill from seasonal illnesses such as flu and
