Commentary Integration into a wider society works. That is why Australia is one of the most successful countries on the planet. This nation, like no other, has managed to draw together peoples from all four corners of the globe, united by a common set of values: namely, tolerance, respect, and equality before the law. The…
Integration, More Than Recognition, Ensures Success
March 24, 2023
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Deficits Forever and Ever
March 24, 2023
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Commentary President Joe Biden’s budget predictably has sparked intense debate. Opinions on overall spending, taxes, equity, and deficits fill financial columns. To see what is happening to the nation’s finances, it helps to step away from these politically motivated criticisms and praise of the president’s proposals and instead look at the basic structure of government…
Sylvain Charlebois: Canada Revenue Agency Raking in More Taxes Thanks to Shrinkflation
Commentary As if shrinkflation wasn’t painful enough for all of us, it looks like the taxman is making shrinking packages even more painful for our wallets. Shrinkflation occurs when a food manufacturer reduces quantities but continues to sell the product at the same price. We have seen this happening pretty much everywhere in all sections…
Parents’ Bill of Rights Is How Congress Can Help State School Reformers
March 24, 2023
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Commentary The stunning success of conservative education reform across the country in the past few years is the result a moral fact: Parents are children’s primary educators. Until very recently, this was not disputed, let alone controversial. But lately, it has become clear that progressive elites who run teachers unions and school boards, the Democratic…
The Disinformation-Industrial Complex vs. Domestic Terror
March 24, 2023
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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…
The Problematic Rise of Media Literacy Education
March 24, 2023
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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…
Don’t Let Them Eat Cake
Commentary Sugar, of all things, may not seem a very apt symbol of liberty under siege, but who imagined what another commodity, tea, would come to mean to the American colonists in 1773? We read in grammar school how the Sons of Liberty dressed as Indians and hid themselves on board three ships carrying tea…
The Vanishing: US Public Schools’ Fast-Dissolving Education Standards
Commentary The state of New York has decided to lower what it calls “proficiency” standards in math and English-language arts for students in grades 3 through 8. The reason: a drastic drop in student scores on statewide tests from 2019 to 2022. In Schenectady alone, not one eighth-grader scored “proficient” on the statewide math test…
Leading Economist: ‘Net Zero Means Higher Interest Rates’
Commentary Politicians and climate activists portray net zero climate policies as a win–win: good for the planet, good for the economy. A recent example is “Mission Zero,” a supposedly independent review of Britain’s net zero target led by the former minister who signed net zero into law. “Net zero is the economic opportunity of the…
Questions Without Answers About Ukraine
Commentary Ukrainians, and many Europeans and Americans, are defining an envisioned Ukrainian victory as the complete expulsion of all Russians from its 2013 borders. Or, as a Ukrainian national security chief put it, the war ends with Ukrainian tanks in Red Square. But mysteries remain about such ambitious agendas. What would that goal entail? Giving…
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