December 15 2023
 
 
 
 
COMMENTARY
Teacher Fired for Not Using Student's Preferred Pronouns Wins Major Victory
By Sarah Parshall Perry, Seth Lucas

“[I]f liberty means anything at all … it means the right to disagree without speaking at all,” writes Justice D. Arthur Kelsey of the Virginia Supreme Court.
COMMENTARY
EXCLUSIVE: Butler University Investigates College Republicans for Criticizing ‘Not a Victim, Not a Crime’ Chants
By Tony Kinnett

Butler University launched an investigation of the College Republicans chapter after the GOP club condemned the school’s Students for Justice in Palestine chapter’s protest.
COMMENTARY
SPLC Demonizes Opposition to Transgender Orthodoxy as ‘Pseudoscience,’ Tool of ‘White Supremacy’ and ‘Theocracy’
By Tyler O'Neil

“The controversy over trans health care is manufactured to reinforce both white supremacy and the political goals of the Christian Right,” says R.G. Cravens of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
ANALYSIS
Solving America’s History and Civics Crisis
By Virginia Allen

History and civics education in America is languishing. A troubling number of Americans can't even pass a U.S. citizenship test.
COMMENTARY
New Bill Would Allow Workers Who Refuse to Pay Unions to Also Escape Membership
By Rachel Greszler

The Worker’s Choice Act would allow workers who do not pay union fees to choose their own representation, and it would free unions from having to represent so-called free riders.
COMMENTARY
A Renowned Science and Engineering Institute Loses Its Way Due to Woke Leadership, Imperiling Jewish Students
By Hans von Spakovsky

The MIT president implied, as the alumni letter says, “that calls for genocide of Jews may not constitute bullying and harassment under MIT’s code of conduct, depending on context.”
NEWS
EXCLUSIVE: Vance Slams Irish Legislation Targeting Free Speech
By Mary Margaret Olohan

Sen. JD Vance sent a letter to Irish Ambassador Geraldine Byrne Nason expressing strong concerns about legislation that would undermine Irish citizens’ freedom of speech.
COMMENTARY
Will We Get a Bad Border Deal for Christmas?
By Simon Hankinson

Senators have to resist a “border security” trap and not sign on to a fig-leaf deal that hands the Biden administration more tools and money to bring in more illegal aliens.
COMMENTARY
Higher Ed Proves It's All About Cultural Revolution
By Jarrett Stepman

Harvard is sticking by its woman and the University of Wisconsin turned down a mountain of money just to maintain commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
 
     
 
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