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July 14, 2023
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There Is Nothing Worth Saving in America’s Public Schools
Mary Rice Hasson and Theresa Farnan
The American Spectator
Another year, another election cycle.
Already Republican candidates and pundits are testing carefully calibrated messages about education. A recent National Affairs article by scholar Robert Pondiscio, for example, sounds the following themes: Yes to school choice, but also yes to more funding for public schools. Yes to curricular transparency, but please no “bans” on teacher-led discussions of “sensitive subjects” (critical race theory and gender ideology). “Compromise” is good, even on “the most ideologically tinged” issues. And, by the way, conservatives ought to “cease fomenting parental discontent with public schools” lest activist teachers respond with retaliatory indoctrination of students. Sure, public schools are failing, but parents must “recommit to strengthening,” not “abandon[ing],” public schools. Why? Because “[i]f conservatives cede public schools to the left, they will effectively abandon the vast majority of America’s future generations to the progressive cause.”
This concern for America’s future generations is laudable — but stunningly out of touch and decades late. A recent report by the Policy Exchange, a prominent UK think tank, on the sweeping harm of gender ideology in UK schools warns that policymakers are “Asleep at the Wheel,” an apt description that applies to far too many conservatives.
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A just peace can’t be achieved by treating the two parties as moral equals, writes George Weigel for the Wall Street Journal about the Vatican's secret peace mission to Moscow ([link removed]) .
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And in his column this week, George criticizes the newly released working documents ([link removed]) for the Catholic Church's upcoming synod.
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For The Catholic Thing, Steve White reports from this year's Tertio Millennio Seminar on the Free Society in Krakow, Poland ([link removed]) .
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For First Things, Carl Trueman explains why he became an American citizen ([link removed]) .
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In a new episode of the Faith Angle podcast, sociologists Carolyn Chen and Trae Stephens discuss how work replaces religion in the culture of Silicon Valley ([link removed]) .
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** Feminism and the Pro-Life Movement
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Carrie Gress appeared on EWTN Pro-Life Weekly to discuss where feminism went wrong, if it can be salvaged, and how the Blessed Mother is the antidote.
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