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Olasky Books: A new history of public housing

In December I reviewed Jane Leavy’s audaciously-titled Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It. Howard Husock’s The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press, 2025) comes from an academic publisher, which almost guarantees a boring title. A better title would have been: Make Me HUD Secretary: I Know What’s Wrong With “Affordable Read More ›

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Watch: Wesley J. Smith Participates in Heritage Foundation Panel Discussion on Chinese Organ Harvesting

On April 7, Wesley J. Smith participated in a Heritage Foundation-hosted discussion titled, "Organ Harvesting: Communist China’s Hideous Shop of Horrors." He was joined by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards, Representative Chris Smith (R–NJ), Jan Jekielek (Senior Editor of The Epoch Times, host of “American Thought Leaders”), Ethan Gutmann, and Bob Moffit. Read More ›
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Schools Should Educate Children, Not Train Activists

America’s public education system has drifted dangerously far from its core mission. Schools exist to educate children — to teach them how to read, write, think critically, and understand the world around them. But across the country, many classrooms are increasingly focused on something else entirely. Read More ›
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Parents Are Gaining More Control in Education and the Results are Hard to Ignore

Across the country, policymakers have long assumed that boosting K-12 funding is the surest path to better student outcomes. Yet decades of rising spending have proven otherwise. The missing ingredient is not money — it’s meaningful choice. Read More ›
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Newsom Tries to Shift Blame on Homelessness to Local Government

Gavin Newsom stood before the cameras in early March and once again blamed local governments for the state’s spiraling homelessness crisis. “No more excuses,” he thundered, threatening to strip funding from counties he claims are underperforming while promising to redirect “every damn penny” to those “getting things done.” Read More ›
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Human Uterus Kept Functioning Outside the Body for Experiments

Brave new world alert! Scientists used a machine deployed in organ transplant medicine to keep a surgically removed human uterus alive for one day, furthering the goal of being able to use donated uteri experimentally over long periods of time, including for gestation. Read More ›
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President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order to dismantle the Department of Education, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
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One-Year Anniversary of a Historic Executive Order