Plus: Florida Makes Sure Schools Teach Evils of Communism, Totalitarianism
June 24 2021
Good morning from Washington, where too many lawmakers not only embrace critical race theory, but communism. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s beloved San Francisco looks awfully racist through the lens of the former, Conn Carroll argues, while leaders in Florida want children to learn about the horrors of the latter, Jarrett Stepman writes. On the podcast, find out about the scholars documenting their “canceled” faculty colleagues. Plus: President Biden takes on the surge in crime and “Problematic Women” considers new Supreme Court decisions. On this date in 1982, over 20,000 striking garment workers, mostly Asian American women, pack a park in New York City’s Chinatown for a rally and march that will win them new labor contracts within days.
A poll by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation found that about a third of millennials surveyed said former President George W. Bush killed more people than Soviet dictator Josef Stalin.
Justice Breyer stresses that courts must be skeptical of a school’s efforts to regulate off-campus speech because doing so may mean the student can’t engage in certain speech at all.
“The Second Amendment from the day it was passed limited the type of people who could own a gun, and what type of weapon you could own,” says President Biden. “You couldn’t buy a cannon.”
“It’s absurd and immoral for teachers to call boys ‘girls’ and girls ‘boys,’” a former state senator says of a proposed transgender policy before school board members walk out.
