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^{Keri D. Ingraham
October 19, 2023
Education}

Abbott Says He’s Keeping Texas Lawmakers In Session Until They Expand School Choice

_{Keri D. Ingraham
October 19, 2023
Education}

Historically, Texas has painfully lagged in school choice programs, resembling more of a blue state than its Republican trifecta. But Governor Abbott is committed to changing that. Read More ›

An American flag against a blue sky on an old rusty flagpole

^{Keri D. Ingraham and Jason Bedrick
October 16, 2023
Education}

School Choice Is Better for Democracy Than Government Schooling

_{Keri D. Ingraham and Jason Bedrick
October 16, 2023
Education}

As state after state embraces policies that empower parents with more options in K-12 education, opponents of school choice are claiming that it is a “threat to democracy.” But if anything, school choice is better for democracy than government-run schooling. Read More ›

Tel Aviv skyline off the shore of the Mediterranean sea - Panoramic aerial image

^{Bruce Chapman
October 16, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

Myth and Reality of Israel’s Success

_{Bruce Chapman
October 16, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

Allysia Finley of the Wall Street Journal does us all a favor in her column, "Our enemies are the CEO’s…Our comrades are in Gaza," describing the labor Union SEIU units that are seeking to portray Israel’s vital and pathfinding economy as the product capitalism and colonialism. They get the historical facts wrong, she writes, quoting at length from George Gilder. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
October 14, 2023
Discovery Institute}

World Serious

_{Marvin Olasky
October 14, 2023
Discovery Institute}

Here’s a baseball metaphor as the World Series approaches: Many pastors and deacons have trouble throwing strikes when a poor person approaches a church for financial help. Instead of giving him a chance to hit, they hand him a walk to first base by treating the requestor as helpless and merely asking “What do you need?” Michael Mather’s Having Nothing, Read More ›

Israeli National flag waving on the top of Mount of Olive with background of residential houses in Jerusalem, Israel

^{George Gilder
October 11, 2023
Foreign Policy}

The New Israel Test

_{George Gilder
October 11, 2023
Foreign Policy}

Are you for civilization or barbarism, life or death, wealth or envy? Are you an exponent of excellence and accomplishment or of a leveling creed of troglodytic envy and hatred? That is the “Israel Test,” inescapable today. Read More ›

^{Debra J. Saunders
October 11, 2023
Foreign Policy}

Israel at War

_{Debra J. Saunders
October 11, 2023
Foreign Policy}

I've been to Israel four times. The first visit was a vacation in 2015. While many Americans experience Israel in a group during an extended tour, we traveled alone and booked day guides or specific tours. We started in Jerusalem, spent a day in Masada and the Dead Sea, spent the Sabbath in Tiberias and ended the trip in Tel Aviv. As Israel finds itself at war, I find myself thinking of that first trip to the Holy Land. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
October 11, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

America at the Crossroads: A Free Republic or a Police State?

_{Scott S. Powell
October 11, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

It’s not easy for elites in the public and private sector in America—who live in luxury and are removed from majority of the people—to acknowledge their failures and wayward priorities. But that awareness can be driven by the people, who can more easily recognize that acknowledging failure and the need for God are the keys and cornerstone to spiritual revival, which will in turn open the way for America’s recovery and renewal. Read More ›

^{Andrew McDiarmid
October 8, 2023
Technology}

Need Help Navigating Modern Technology? Ask your elders!

_{Andrew McDiarmid
October 8, 2023
Technology}

Do you ever feel like you’re barely keeping up with modern technology? Maybe it’s a recent phone update that leaves you disoriented. Or you want customer service from a human but you’re forced to text with an AI. Perhaps you get decision fatigue scrolling through endless streaming options on TV, not sure what to take a chance on next. You’re not alone in experiencing feelings of weariness, frustration, and even grief about daily life in the digital age. Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
October 6, 2023
Education}

College-Simulated Learning for K-12

_{Keri D. Ingraham
October 6, 2023
Education}

Recent polling suggests that nearly half of parents would prefer a hybrid approach for their child’s education, combining on-campus and at-home learning days each week. A promising model of hybrid education exists by the name of college-simulated learning. Read More ›

Dollar bill plant growth from ground.Concept of money tree growing from American dollars

^{Nathan Lewis
October 6, 2023
Economics}

Life After Capitalism Highlights The Way Forward For Economists

_{Nathan Lewis
October 6, 2023
Economics}

Life After Capitalism is full of new ideas with great potential to advance the study of economics out of its current stagnant ruts. Among other things, it may help bridge the cultural divide between business innovators and policy wonks. Readers will find new vistas and horizons in every chapter. Read More ›