Category: Education

The Class of 2026

AI is doing to the universities what Gutenberg did to the monasteries John Carter Jun 10, 2025 Caspar David Friedrich, Monastery Graveyard in the Snow By the late middle ages monasteries were spectacularly wealthy. They were immune from taxation, and possessed vast land holdings thanks to generous donations […]

Foucault and the Panopticon of the Woke University

By Aleksey Bashtavenko Academic Composition https://www.youtube.com/@Alekseybashtavenko Michel Foucault, a towering figure in twentieth-century thought, is often cited—sometimes worshipped—by postmodernist and leftist academics who seek to dismantle traditional power structures. His writings on discourse, power, and social institutions underpin much of contemporary critical theory, from queer studies to postcolonialism. […]

Trump Declares War On Harvard

This is not about reforming higher education; it’s about destroying it out of spite. Andrew Sullivan May 23, 2025 (Erica Denhoff/Icon Sportswire via Getty) The modern conservative movement in America began with an attack on the Ivy League. God and Man at Yale — William F Buckley Jr’s […]

Parental Opt-Outs for Controversial Books

Parental Opt-Outs for Controversial Books Plus: Cornell’s cancel culture case, Trump’s immigration policy approval ratings, and more… LIZ WOLFE Book battles come to the Supreme Court: Mahmoud v. Taylor is before the Court this week, dealing with the Montgomery County Board of Education, which took away both parental notice and opt-outs […]

The Threat of Charter Schools

_annoImage2505CharSch0413-2 Black & Green Wednesday webinar The Threat of Charter Schools 5:30 pm PT, 6:30 MT, 7:30 CT, 8:30 ET, Wed, May 7, 2025 Hear from: •Dave Cash, President, United Teachers of New Orleans •Karen Francisco, Advocates for Public Education Policy (Colorado) •Casandra Ulbrich, Ph.D., Network for Public […]

Higher Ed’s Bold New Blueprint

The future of American education is at a crossroads. With the Department of Education under scrutiny, now is the time to rethink how we empower students, parents, and educators. At Independent Institute, we’ve long championed bold reforms to strengthen both higher education and K-12 learning—prioritizing accountability, innovation, and […]

Department of Education: To Be, or Not to Be?

Read in browser March 22, 2025 Senior Fellow Judy Shelton breaks down the period of economic transition under the Trump administration, calling for policymakers to empower individuals with economic liberty and protect them from overbearing bureaucracy. Regime Uncertainty: Another Substantial Cost of Tariffs Senior Fellow Abigail Hall calls […]

Vandals splash Columbia University president’s home with red paint as protests rage over ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil

Vandals splash Columbia University president’s home with red paint as protests rage over ICE arrest of Mahmoud Khalil Vandals targeted the home of Columbia University’s president, splashing the historic residence with red paint and scrawling the words “Free Them All,” as protests rage this week over ICE’s arrest […]

Bad Education

Is Trump about to pull the plug on the Department of Education? ELIZABETH NOLAN BROWN President Donald Trump will not be axing the Department of Education today. He can’t. It’s important we get that fact cleared up first because both sky-is-falling sorts on the left and hail God-Emperor Trump […]

The Campaign to Destroy Public Schools

Sponsored by the Robert B. Silvers Foundation In “‘Their Kind of Indoctrination,’” published on the NYR Online shortly before Donald Trump’s second inauguration, Diane Ravitch writes about the troubling future of American public education. Referring to the president’s infamous remark from his first campaign—“I love the poorly educated”—Ravitch warns that his second […]

‘Leave Them Kids Alone!’

Diane Ravitch ‘Their Kind of Indoctrination’ For a range of far-right activists, Trump’s second term will be a chance to discipline public schools—and ultimately defund them. Nathan Shields ‘Every Carnival Has Its End’ A recent performance by the Santa Fe Opera of Don Giovanni showed what is gained—and what is lost—in […]

Christian School Punished for Forfeiting Game With ‘Transgender’ Player, Though a Dozen Women’s Teams Won’t Play Biological Males

November 3 2024   Christian School Punished for Forfeiting Game With ‘Transgender’ Player, Though a Dozen Women’s Teams Won’t Play Biological Males NEWS By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell At least a dozen women’s and girls sports teams have forfeited games against teams with biological male players without consequences, but […]

Derrida Speaks

Troy Southgate Oct 01, 2024 “TODAY, how can we not speak of the university?” Derrida asks in The Principle of Reason (1983). “And how,” he continues in How to Avoid Speaking (1986), “if one speaks of it, to avoid speaking of it? How not to speak of it? […]

Jessica Burbank and Robby Soave discuss Kamala Harris’ economic plan and mounting criticism it’s getting. #KamalaHarris #Economy

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