School Choice: Not Just for Conservatives Anymore?
Have you seen the yellow scarves around? They are the symbol of National School Choice Week, going on right now. In a one-minute off-the-cuff interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, scarf-clad...
View ArticleConservative Politicians Need an Education
If you want to be President, go to college. Eventually. Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has announced his intention to return to college to finish his bachelor’s degree. The conservative Walker...
View ArticleWalker Takes on the Professoriate
Want to get elected president? If you went to middle school, you know how it’s done: Find an unpopular group and attack them. Last week, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker tried to pave his path to the...
View ArticleConservatives, Evolution, and “The Question”
“Do you believe in evolution?” That’s the question GOP presidential candidates dread. Governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin is the latest to hem and haw his way through an awkward press conference on the...
View ArticleBizarre Attacks on Conservatives
Watch out! Conservative ideas might subject you and your family to thuggish home invasions. Even more creepy, conservative ideas might get you erased from your own personal history. As we observe...
View ArticleToday! GOP Candidates Talk Education
What does it mean to be conservative about education? What ed policy will get voters excited? Today at 8:50 (Eastern Time, USA), you can watch live as a handful of Republican presidential candidates...
View ArticleScott Walker’s Collapse Means School Is Still Cool
Governor Scott Walker dropped fast. According to the conservative Weekly Standard, Walker led the field of GOP presidential hopefuls in April, dropped to second in August, then plummeted to last place...
View ArticleHigher Ed: The Conservative Crisis that Isn’t
Beware college! That’s the old cry today’s conservative intellectuals are pretending they invented. But they don’t mean it. The best evidence for conservatives’ real affection for American higher ed is...
View ArticleI Love You but You Didn’t Do the Reading
Armistice Day, a century later. Subterranean rivers of ecstasy and violence, a generation later. This week saw a lot of remembrance and few new shockers: Fart jokes land a professor in hot water at...
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