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April 16, 2021
Economics}

How the Culture and Politics of China have Fundamentally Changed

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April 16, 2021
Economics}

This is part one of Discovery Institute Senior Fellow's three-part discussions with China expert Bill Perry. Read More ›

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March 26, 2021
Economics}

The Invisible Asylum

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March 26, 2021
Economics}

The story of American deinstitutionalization has become familiar. In a long arc—from President Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Act of 1963 to the present—federal and state governments dismantled mental asylums and released the psychiatrically disturbed into the world. Read More ›

Congressman Tom Cotton of Arkansas speaking at the 2013 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland.

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March 25, 2021
Economics}

Senator Cotton’s Stand

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March 25, 2021
Economics}

Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton introduced legislation to ban critical race theory trainings in the United States military. The bill is concise, and desperately needed. Read More ›

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March 19, 2021
Economics}

Subversive Education

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March 19, 2021
Economics}

Last year, the Wake County Public School System, which serves the greater Raleigh, North Carolina area, held an equity-themed teachers’ conference with sessions on “whiteness,” “microaggressions,” “racial mapping,” and “disrupting texts,” encouraging educators to form “equity teams” in schools and push the new party line: “antiracism.” Read More ›

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March 11, 2021
Economics}

The Equality Act: The Next Step for the Cancel Culture?

_{Scott S. Powell
March 11, 2021
Economics}

There has always been tension between freedom and equality in the United States. History shows us that the American vision expressed in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution to protect individual freedom and provide equal opportunity was not realized in the first decade of the Republic. Read More ›

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March 11, 2021
Economics}

Revenge of the Gods

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March 11, 2021
Economics}

Next week, the California Department of Education will vote on a new statewide ethnic studies curriculum that advocates for the “decolonization” of American society and elevates Aztec religious symbolism—all in the service of a left-wing political ideology. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
March 4, 2021
Economics}

Critical Race Fragility

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March 4, 2021
Economics}

The Left has denounced the “war on woke,” but it is afraid to defend the principles of critical race theory in public debate. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
February 24, 2021
Economics}

Failure Factory

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February 24, 2021
Economics}

Buffalo school administrators have adopted fashionable new pedagogies: “culturally responsive teaching,” “pedagogy of liberation,” “equity-based instructional strategies,” and an “emancipatory curriculum.” Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
February 19, 2021
Economics}

Gone Crazy

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February 19, 2021
Economics}

New York’s East Side Community School recently sent a letter encouraging white parents to become “white traitors” and advocate for “white abolition.” Read More ›

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February 12, 2021
Discovery Institute, Economics}

The Invisible Asylum

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February 12, 2021
Discovery Institute, Economics}

Please join us on Thursday, February 25 at noon for a webinar with Christopher Rufo, Director of Discovery Institute’s Center on Wealth & Poverty. Chris will provide you with a unique perspective into the homeless crisis—what drives, what perpetuates, why nothing seems to help—and what we should be doing differently. Read More ›