TELL CONGRESS: Republicans defunded PBS – destroying programming that teachers and families relied on to educate children. Now, the far-right propaganda machine PragerU is trying to fill that vacuum, and its videos targeting children are already gaining a foothold in our schools. Sign the petition: Keep extreme PragerU […]
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 […]
by Don Fitz One of the most unaddressed problems in coping with climate catastrophes is who will make decisions concerning what to do. There is a widespread assumption that shots should be called by experts who advise politicians who are beholden to heads of mega-corporations who hold the […]
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. […]
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 […]
Most Read Google Worried It Couldn’t Control How Israel Uses Project Nimbus, Files Reveal Sam Biddle Internal Google documents show that the tech giant feared it wouldn’t be able to monitor how Israel might use its technology to harm Palestinians. Read More → ICE Duped a Federal Judge […]
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April 23, 2025 Welcome to The Lighthouse, the weekly email newsletter of the Independent Institute covering politics, economics, current events, and everything in between. Dear Readers, This week, the Harvard-Trump showdown has escalated. Harvard has announced it will sue the administration on the grounds that the federal funds […]
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 […]
_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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
With Four out of Ten not Attending, School Is out of Bounds for Mexican Indigenous A child writes in Tsotsil and Tseltal at a primary school in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas. ELIZABETH RUIZ (CUARTOSCURO)When Mexican Secretary of Culture Claudia Curiel attended President Claudia Sheinbaum’s morning press […]
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 […]
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March 15, 2025 Senior Fellow Judy Shelton joins Adam Taggart on Thoughtful Money to discuss Trump’s tariffs, deregulation, budget reductions, and a possible sovereign wealth fund. It’s Past Time We Let Our Universities Perish Senior Fellow Richard Vedder’s letter to the editor calls for the creative destruction of […]
Mahmoud Khalil is a political prisoner and his unlawful detainment is being used to set precedent implementing facisct policies reminiscent of McCarthy Era First Amendment restrictions Ahmad Ibsais Mar 12, 2025 As a Palestinian, I learned very young that our very existence was a form of protest. […]
By Chris Nesi Published March 9, 2025 New York Post President Trump is giving this anti-Israel campus rabble-rouser a ticket to study abroad — for good. A Palestinian activist who led a coalition of twisted radicals seeking the “total eradication of Western civilization” responsible for riotous protests […]
March 8, 2025 Senior Fellow Judy Shelton joins Julia la Roche on her show and explains why the U.S. stands at a monetary crossroads requiring fundamental reform. Trump Plans to Shake Up Higher Education Journalist Jason Riley praises Senior Fellow Richard Vedder’s forthcoming book, Let Colleges Fail: The […]
Why are colleges failing and what can be done? Phillip W. Magness and Richard K. Vedder discuss Vedder’s new book, Let Colleges Fail: The Power of Creative Destruction in Higher Education Thursday, April 10, 2025 | 6:00 PM Independent Institute, 100 Swan Way, Oakland, CA 94560 Details and […]
Barnard expels students for class disruption, pro-Palestinian protest February 24, 2025 Barnard college, an affiliate of Columbia University in New York, reportedly expelled two students last week for disrupting a session of the class “History of Modern Israel.” The Barnard students, both seniors in their last semester of […]
Higher Education Marketisation – What did they expect!? The concept of marketisation must have seemed a good idea to someone at some point. It’s a shame that it has fallen to higher education to prove the idiocy of capitalism.Education is not a commodity to be thrown to the […]
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As Trump threatens sweeping action against “illegal protest” on college campuses, Columbia is already using secret processes to punish pro-Palestine students Murtaza Hussain Mar 04, 2025 Pro-Palestinian demonstrators march through the Columbia University campus on October 7, 2024. Photo by KENA BETANCUR/AFP via Getty Images. In the wake […]
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 […]
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19 January, 2025 Bryan Mercadente According to today’s Sunday Mail, “Almost a third of pupils are getting extra time in GCSE and A-level exams under rules to help the soaring numbers of children with special educational needs.” No surprise there for me. The expansion of what everyone but […]
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 […]
Last Chance: Auditor Memberships still available! Homer’s epic about the consequences of a single incident in the final year of the Trojan War magnificently established the terms for the “idea of the tragic” and its accoutrements: the tragic hero, tragic irony, the tragic “flaw.” Confronted with a devastating […]
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21, 2024 The future of education is bright, and unconventional education is helping students excel and achieve like never before. – Nasiyah Isra-Ul, “Homeschoolers and Microschoolers Describe the Benefits of Alternative Education” [2024] HORNBERGER’S BLOG December 19, 2024 Why Did Trump Buckle with CIA Appointment? Before […]
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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 […]
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2024 It is only from a special point of view that “education” is a failure. As to its own purposes, it is an unqualified success. One of its purposes is to serve as a massive tax-supported jobs program for legions of not especially able or […]
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? […]
Did COVID-19 make American higher education more close-minded and less receptive to challenging conventional wisdom? Keith Preston, Florian Ulrich, and Aleksey Bashtavenko return to El Niño Speaks to discuss how the COVID era increased the ghettoization of American institutions of higher learning. Critical thinking has largely exited the […]
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more Watch now El Niño Speaks 130: The Close-Mindedness of American University Students The Higher Education Roundtable returns to discuss how the COVID-era has made university students more close-minded and less respective to thinking outside the box. Sep 22 READ […]
September 21, 2024 How Much Will the Fed Cut Rates? On Fed Day, Senior Fellow Judy Shelton expressed skepticism of the fed’s supposedly neutral political agenda “For all the Fed says about not being political, I think 50 would definitely expose them to accusations of being political.” Should […]
Now available! Telos 207: Politics and the University Telos 207 (Summer 2024): Politics and the University is now available at the Telos Press website. Purchase your copy today in the Telos Press store. Just as we cannot keep a sense of right and wrong out of the way […]
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 2024 The rifle is a weapon. Let there be no mistake about that. It is a tool of power, and thus dependent completely upon the moral stature of its user. It is equally useful in securing meat for the table, destroying group enemies on the […]
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