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Harvard-Epworth United Methodist Church view in Cambridge Massachusetts, USA

^{Debra J. Saunders
October 25, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

Too Pure for Harvard?

_{Debra J. Saunders
October 25, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

The BDS -- or Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions -- movement began in 2005 as a progressive effort to defund and isolate Israel. The goal has been to pull money from Israeli institutions, isolate the Jewish State and stoke cowardice in corporate boardrooms. Read More ›

Daughter is reading book to her international parents

^{Keri D. Ingraham
October 23, 2023
Education}

How Texas Is Becoming the Frontlines for Parents-First School Choice

_{Keri D. Ingraham
October 23, 2023
Education}

For far too long, K-12 public schools have been viewed as the only experts when it comes to educating children. Parents’ fundamental responsibility to serve as the primary educators of their children has been outsourced to these government institutes, where the vast majority of children remain trapped. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
October 22, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

Beyond Orwell: The Players and Strategies of Today’s Censorship and Cancel Culture Part II

_{Scott S. Powell
October 22, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

When crises come—whether a pandemic or war—most people become fixated on the immediate events and fail to connect the dots that provide a context for how those events may fit together in a deep state or globalist agenda. Read More ›

Older woman lying in hospital bed alone looking at the Christian crucifix asking for her healing.

^{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

No to Killing for Organs

_{Wesley J. Smith
October 21, 2023
Human Exceptionalism}

The shortage of organs for transplantation is threatening to unleash immoral and unethical remedies. A terrible story out of Belgium illustrates the peril. Read More ›

^{Scott S. Powell
October 21, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

Beyond Orwell: The Players and Strategies of Today’s Censorship and Cancel Culture

_{Scott S. Powell
October 21, 2023
Citizen Leadership}

Just a few generations ago, most Americans understood that George Orwell’s classics Animal Farm and 1984 were written as a warning about how freedom is lost to the tyranny and intolerance of totalitarianism. Read More ›

^{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 ›