Plus: Teacher Fired After Speaking Against Gender Identity, Critical Race Theory, and Mask Mandates
August 31 2021
Good morning from Washington, where President Biden makes a deadline to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, although it means leaving an unknown number of Americans behind. The public needs to know why the operation was such a mess, Heritage Foundation defense expert Tom Spoehr writes. What to expect as the Taliban assumes full control? Heritage foreign policy expert Luke Coffey has answers on the podcast. Plus: a school district sacks a teacher for speaking out on woke policies; college students get short shrift in bloated budgets; and CDC gives faulty guidance on masks at school. On this date in 1888, prostitute Mary Ann Nichols is found murdered and mutilated in London’s Whitechapel district, the first known victim of Jack the Ripper.
Will any Afghans try to fight the Taliban? What is ISIS-K, and is it a threat? Will terrorists be able to attack the U.S. from Afghanistan? Heritage Foundation scholar Luke Coffey delves into these topics...
Jonathan Koeppel says he wants to be a voice for anyone who is “sick and tired of being pushed around by the public education system just for being conservative.”
Should the U.S. have blown up all military equipment rather than let it be captured by the Taliban? Should the military have abandoned a prison holding thousands of terrorists?
Universities employ an army of staff who either distract from that mission by providing therapeutic coddling to students or subvert truth-seeking by enforcing an ideological orthodoxy.
A study finds that the COVID-19 infection rate in schools requiring students to wear masks “was not statistically significant compared with schools where mask use was optional.”
