Leftism

^{Christopher Rufo
March 19, 2021
Economics}

Subversive Education

_{Christopher Rufo
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 ›

^{Christopher Rufo
February 12, 2021
Economics}

Bad Education

_{Christopher Rufo
February 12, 2021
Economics}

A Philadelphia elementary school recently forced fifth-grade students to celebrate “black communism” and simulate a Black Power rally in honor of political radical Angela Davis. Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
January 6, 2021
Economics}

Radicals in the Classroom

_{Christopher Rufo
January 6, 2021
Economics}

The San Diego Unified School District has been radicalized. In recent months, the district has announced mandatory diversity training for teachers, added a new “ethnic studies” curriculum focused on racial grievance, and even abolished the requirement to turn in homework on time—all in the name of becoming, in the words of school board member Richard Barrera, “an anti-racist school district.” Read More ›

^{Christopher Rufo
October 9, 2020
Economics}

Lab Coat Tyranny

_{Christopher Rufo
October 9, 2020
Economics}

Public health authorities in California have unveiled a plan that requires counties to meet new “health equity metrics” in order to emerge from the current Covid-19 lockdowns. It’s a broad experiment in social justice. Read More ›

California state of United States flag waving on the top sunrise mist fog

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 17, 2017
Citizen Leadership, Human Exceptionalism}

Goodbye California: A Lament

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 17, 2017
Citizen Leadership, Human Exceptionalism}

I was born at the French Hospital, City of Los Angeles, State of California, in 1949. As of this writing, I have never been outside my native state for more than three weeks. That’s about to change. Last week, I moved from California to the Washington, D.C. area after my wife accepted a journalism job there. The situation should last Read More ›