Plus: Where Does Your State Rank in Education Freedom?
September 9 2022
Good morning from Washington, where educrats have done a bang-up job ruining public schooling in America. Does education freedom thrive where you live? Gillian Richards outlines a “report card” from The Heritage Foundation. In a video report, a California mother talks to Kelsey Bolar about society’s reckless rush to affirm her daughter’s gender confusion. On the podcast, philosopher Yoram Hazony explains why religion and conservatism go together. Plus: five charts point the way to fiscal sanity, and Nile Gardiner remembers Queen Elizabeth II. Eighty years ago today, a Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on an Oregon state forest in the first air attack on the U.S. mainland in World War II.
Florida ranks highest among the states in education freedom, while the District of Columbia trails behind all of them, according to a new “report card” from The Heritage Foundation.
Bill Donohue, president of the Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, requests an investigation of a Justice Department official for apparent anti-religious bias.
Nile Gardiner, who once worked for Margaret Thatcher, discusses Queen Elizabeth’s legacy; her relationship with U.S. presidents, including Reagan; and whether King Charles will be more liberal.