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Harvard Donors Start to Notice the Shift in Culture at this Formerly Great Institution
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy Vlad Tepes Blog Billionaire Harvard Donor, Bill Ackman writes letter exposing the fully communist nature of the culture at Harvard. Daily Mail: Bill Ackman posts excoriating letter to Harvard’s president Claudine Gay taking aim at anti-Semitism, free speech and discrimination against straight white men and Asian students in the guise of ‘equity’ Billionaire hedge […]
Arizona GOP Lawmakers Hint At University Budget Cuts Over Free Speech Concerns
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cameron Arcand Editors’ Note: Free speech certainly is a major concern. However, it goes much deeper than that. The Left has established an intellectual monopoly on our campuses that will allow no diversity of viewpoints. Search committees, faculty senates, and departments all work in tandem to deny Conservative scholars from being hired. Those who […]
How Can We Stop Serving Students So Poorly?
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Gary M. Galles In 1942, there were 108,579 public school districts in the United States. By the 2020-21 school year, there were only 13,187. That massive consolidation of school districts was propelled by the belief that economies of scale created by larger school districts would lower costs and serve students better. Those presumed efficiencies have not, […]
Minnesota Middle School Restricted Cell Phones a Year Ago, the Results Are ‘Just Night and Day’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council When I was in middle school, I had a flip phone meant exclusively to contact family members (and maybe a couple close friends). Half the time I didn’t even want to text on it because it was one of those keyboards where you have to press the button two or three […]
Are You Serious? That’s What Caused University of Arizona’s $240 Million Shortfall
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Matt Vespa The University of Arizona will have to enter a period of extreme austerity after its administration lost $240 million. Drastic cuts are expected, sending the faculty, the board of regents, and others into a tailspin of confusion and anger (via Associated Press): Students and faculty members harshly criticized University of Arizona President Robert […]
Exposing America’s Cultural Revolutionaries
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni A review of The Canceling of the American Mind, by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott, 2023, Simon & Schuster, New York, 443 pages. The Canceling of the American Mind appears to have been written in a hurry and could’ve used some editing and wordsmithing. But it’s worth reading for its many […]
Iowa Universities Told to Pull Back DEI Functions
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Kim Jarrett Editors Note: We think this is a good start, but it does not go far enough. We would hope in Arizona the Board of Regents and the legislature would call for the elimination of all DEI programs. Students should be admitted and teaching positions should be filled on the basis of merit, […]
Seattle Middle School Teacher Made Students Write Hate Mail to Moms for Liberty
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Moms for Liberty, a conservative parental rights group, received a surprise package from Jane Addams Middle School in Seattle. It consisted of letters that appeared to be written by the middle school students with phrases such as “Say Gay,” “Gay is slay, stop being a rat,” and a repeated use of […]
Progressive Public High School Offers Race-Segregated Classes
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics, Regulation /by DrRichSwier.comBy Family Research Council Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies have grown so diverse that they now include policies reminiscent of the Jim Crow era. A Chicago-area school district is attempting to boost academic achievement among black and Latino students by offering blacks-only and Latino-only classes. The segregated classes are called “affinity” classes, and they aim to […]
Too Many Laws
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Bruce Bialosky There are many joys of being a Californian. The price of housing, the price of gas, and the price of electricity are just a few. One that is not discussed is how our elected leaders are constantly changing the laws under which we are governed. This is one of the worst aspects […]
‘Not Paying A Single Dollar’: Wealthy Jewish Families Dump Elite Universities Over Pro-Gaza Protests
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Wealthy Jewish families are not having their college-bound children apply for Ivy League schools following antisemitic incidents and protests against Israel. Schools in conservative states, like Washington University in Missouri, Vanderbilt University in Tennessee and Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Texas are seeing the influx of applications from Jewish students who […]
What Is Racism?
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Craig J. Cantoni “Racism” is one of the many catchall words that are bandied about without definition or much thought. Anyone with the temerity to question the meaning of “racism” or to ask for a definition of the word risks being called a racist. Well, so be it. Given that “racism” has become one […]
The Curious Case of Rob Malley
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Peter Schweizer Hamas’s war against Israel, coordinated with Iran, has exposed the fault lines in the American Left. While mainstream Democratic liberals have sided with the innocent Israelis massacred by Hamas terrorists, leftist “Squad” members in Congress compete with Ivy League campus radicals to outdo one another by championing the vicious murderers as a […]
Interesting Charts For Provocative Thoughts
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Neland Nobel We have been told that we have had the hottest summer on record and the forests over the summer were all burning up. That is what the media tells us. There seems to be just a slight conflict with the facts. Technology continues to pull the stock market up, even as other […]
Even Though Unparalleled Deeds Offend Today, Great Men Did Shift History
/in Education, Featured, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Elad Vaida Vaida Napoleon’s ambition, decisiveness, and drive made him excellently suited to make the most out of the tumult of the revolution. Antony Beevor’s latest article in The Telegraph discusses Ridley Scott’s upcoming film about Napoleon’s life and laments the fact that heroic figures like Napoleon give weight to the Great Man Theory. Beevor […]
The Administrative State’s Digital Currency Ruse
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Paul Gottfried When I read about an executive order issued by the Biden administration last year regarding a plan for digital currency, I naturally suspected something quite dire. Generally speaking, whatever the modern, self-described “liberal democratic” administrative state claims to be doing to help supposedly disadvantaged people is actually intended primarily, if not exclusively, […]
Harvard And Hamas
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Conlan Salgado Our political class likes euphemisms. One of its favorites is “democracy”; democracy sounds better than “a systemic agenda of censorship, economic irresponsibility, increasing surrender of foreign interests abroad, an almost totally open policy on the border, inability to control crime and drug waves, and a recruiting and morale crisis in our armed […]
Jordan Peterson: Marxist ‘Oppressor-Oppressed’ Narrative Brainwashed American Youth
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Catherine Salgado “[P]eople have bought this idiot meta-Marxism which is that the way to look at every social relationship that people ever have is through the lens of power.” Dr. Jordan Peterson had a brilliant response to a skeptical Bill Maher, who is wrong most of the time, on the issue of young and […]
Pentagon Official At Office Overseeing Elementary Schools Arrested In Human Trafficking Sting
/in Courts & Law, DrRichSwier.com, Education, Elections, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Stephen Francis Hovanic, a top administrator for the Pentagon’s school system in the Americas region, was arrested on Nov. 15 in a human trafficking sting in Coweta County, Georgia, the Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Hovanic, 64, of Sharpsburg, Georgia, was arrested on suspicion of pandering, according to a press […]
Teaching and Celebrating Terrorism on Campus – One Professor’s View
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics /by DrRichSwier.comBy Matthew Hausman, J.D. What is taught at U.S. colleges is not higher education, it is academic fraud. In U.S. law, terrorists are unlawful combatants. Read on. Since Hamas’s bloody October 7th terror attack on Israeli civilians, American college campuses have erupted in demonstrations where students without any sense of decency or history chant antisemitic […]
Sixty Years On, Why the Kennedy Assassination Still Matters
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Michael Wilkerson James W. Douglass describes how, by 1963, JFK had made himself irredeemably odious to the dark powers of the intelligence community and the military-industrial complex. A review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, by James W. Douglass (Touchstone, 560 pages, $22) June 10, 2023, marks the 60th […]
ASU Investigating Pro-Palestinian Protesters Disrupting A Meeting On Campus
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, National Security, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach Editors’ Note: We are pretty much free speech purists, even if that speech is repugnant. However, if groups break the rules pertaining to on-campus meetings or intimidate and interfere with other university functions using force and coercion, they should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. After the BLM riots, […]
Florida Again Earns Top Spot on Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card [Arizona is #2]
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Samantha Aschieris Editors’ Note: Those who want the hear the podcast can scroll to the to the eleventh one below. Those who prefer to read the transcript can continue below. Florida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event […]
Florida Earns Top Spot on Education Freedom Report Card (Arizona is #2)
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Samantha Aschieris Editors’ Note: Those who want the hear the podcast can scroll to the to the eleventh one below. Those who prefer to read the transcript can continue below. Florida has once again been ranked No. 1 among the states on The Heritage Foundation’s Education Freedom Report Card, which was released at an event […]
A Historian Complicates the Racial Divide
/in Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Ken Masugi Brandeis University historian David Hackett Fischer’s African Founders illuminates the leading controversies today with facts that shame political cant and enable us to reassess the centuries of slavery’s effects on American national character. In a scholarly tome of over 900 pages, Fischer follows the method of his earlier work, Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in […]
The Two Nations
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Liberty, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Michael Rectenwald A bottom-up libertarian localism that rejects federal funding and resists centralized control is the only viable way to defeat the totalitarian left and to restore the American republic Two political, economic, and cultural movements are vying for the soul of America. One is a program from above, and the other, a movement […]
Michigan Congresswoman’s Planned Speech at ASU Canceled
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach A planned speech from recently-censured U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus has been canceled by the school. An ASU spokesperson told The Center Square Friday morning that Tlaib’s speech would not happen on school grounds, saying the groups organizing the event didn’t follow proper channels. “Organizers of events […]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s Planned Speech at ASU Canceled
/in Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Cole Lauterbach A planned speech from recently-censured U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., on Arizona State University’s Tempe campus has been canceled by the school. An ASU spokesperson told The Center Square Friday morning that Tlaib’s speech would not happen on school grounds, saying the groups organizing the event didn’t follow proper channels. “Organizers of events […]
‘Complicated’: Over 100 Harvard Faculty Defend ‘From The River To The Sea’
/in DrRichSwier.com, Education, Politics, Religion /by DrRichSwier.comBy The Daily Caller Over 100 Harvard faculty members signed a letter saying the phrase “from the river to the sea” is “complicated” in response to the president’s recent statement on antisemitism. Harvard President Claudine Gay wrote multiple statements about the antisemitism on campus following backlash from donors and fire from former grads about her response to antisemitism on campus after […]
College History Textbooks Spread Misinformation About the Great Depression
/in Economy, Education, Featured, Politics, ThePricklyPear.org /by ThePricklyPear.orgBy Phillip W. Magness The Great Depression was the most significant macroeconomic event of the past century, but don’t expect to find an accurate portrayal of its causes in your college history classroom. The most commonly assigned college-level US history textbooks contain obsolete and economically erroneous explanations of the 1929 stock market crash and its […]