A woke watchdog organization is questioning the ethics of a divisive curriculum proclaiming students as inherently racist. Do No Harm (DNH) has published a July report (pdf) on the Ohio State University College of Medicine (OSUCM) outlining the college’s adoption of discriminatory concepts taught to students. “Do No Harm’s new comprehensive report on The Ohio…

Combating disinformation has been elevated to a national security imperative under the Biden administration, as codified in its first-of-its-kind National Strategy for Countering Domestic Terrorism, published in June 2021. That document calls for confronting long-term contributors to domestic terrorism. In connection therewith, it cites as a key priority “addressing the extreme polarization, fueled by a…

New Jersey is enlisting public-school teachers and librarians to show children how to combat what it calls the grave threat of disinformation. “Our democracy remains under sustained attack through the proliferation of disinformation,” Gov. Phil Murphy said in signing the nation’s first law mandating “information literacy” instruction for all K-12 students. The law, which aims to provide students…

Commentary The Alberta government is providing $10 million to help Grade 1 students catch up in math and reading. This is on top of a previously announced $110 million over the next three years for students experiencing mental and academic challenges resulting from the pandemic. Other provinces are also opening the spending taps. Last fall,…

Commentary The Irvine Unified School District (IUSD) in Orange County, Calif., has a plethora of advisory committees devoted to advising the board and administration on a wide variety of matters. Intertwined with all these committees is the “Continuous Improvement Council” charged with oversight of the district’s “Continuous Improvement Efforts.” This Council has been in place…

Little more than a decade ago, DEI was just another arcane acronym, a clustering of three ideas, each to be weighed and evaluated against other societal values. The terms “diversity, equity, and inclusion” weren’t yet being used in the singular, as one all-inclusive, non-negotiable moral imperative. Nor had they coalesced into a bureaucratic juggernaut running…

Commentary “It’s the journey, not the destination, that matters,” goes the old saying with regard to life. Perhaps so. But when it comes to the fate of America’s financial and economic system, the destination is ultimately the only thing that matters. In fact, the journey on which we now find ourselves is actually a preview…

Commentary Prioritizing the fight for “social justice” or any other version of “justice” is a guarantee of unending warfare. Obsession with “justice” focuses on the past, on allegedly unjust deeds suffered by the party deeming itself a victim. That the past is long, and includes an almost endless number of actions that someone might claim…

A provision in Congress’ defense bill for fiscal year 2023 supersizes investments for expanding research capacity at colleges and universities with higher numbers of minority students. Congress set aside $131.7 million in the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the Pentagon to conduct a pilot program aimed at deepening research and development partnerships between the Department…

“I was a traitor to what has become almost like a religion … which maniacally upheld these ideals that COVID restrictions were for the good of the masses, when in fact, they were doing such great harm.” We sit down with Jennifer Sey, who was on track to become CEO of Levi Strauss & Co….