How Public Education Cripples Our Kids, and Why

Against School by John Taylor Gatto I TAUGHT FOR thirty years in some of the worst schools in Manhattan, and in some of the best, and during that time I became an expert in boredom. Boredom was everywhere in my world, and if you asked the kids, as I often did, why they felt so bored, they always gave the Continue Reading →

Academic ‘Left’ Opposes Free Speech, Academic Freedom

by Kevin MacDonald FOR YEARS the Cal State Long Beach community has seen repeated attacks on me. Powerful activist organizations – the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League – have come to campus to condemn me. Several departments at the university have issued public denunciations, and I have been harassed and condemned by individual professors on faculty e-mail Continue Reading →

On Grabbing the Third Rail

by Stephen M. Walt LAST WEEK a colleague who has been facing repeated and unfair attacks in the media and the blogosphere (for making arguments that cut against the conventional wisdom) sent around an email asking a number of friends and associates (including me) for advice on how to deal with the attacks. Having been smeared in similar fashion myself, Continue Reading →