13 Ways Public Schools Incubate Mental Instability In Kids by Stella Morabito

13 Ways Public Schools Incubate Mental Instability In Kids

During their time in that maze, kids learn to “socialize,” basically by finding their place in a school’s hierarchy of cliques.
This sort of pecking order dynamic tends to breed resentment, status anxiety, and social dysfunction. Combine that with the toxic effects of social media and family breakdown, and you’ve got a deadly brew. Public schooling is increasingly unhealthy for kids’ emotional stability.

It is so clear that the current educational model is making our kids worse.

Getting Serious about God by NR Interview

Getting Serious about God

“Nice” is an adjective that describes some vague and superficial pleasantness. If God exists, he is goodness, beauty, and truth — but not “nice.” It is a reminder that many have settled for an idol instead of the real God.

This iconoclastic article really speaks to me about the need to see God as holy, not as a genie.

A Gun-Control Measure Conservatives Should Consider By David French

A Gun-Control Measure Conservatives Should Consider By David French

What if, however, there was an evidence-based process for temporarily denying a troubled person access to guns? What if this process empowered family members and others close to a potential shooter, allowing them to “do something” after they “see something” and “say something”? I’ve written that the best line of defense against mass shootings is an empowered, vigilant citizenry. There is a method that has the potential to empower citizens even more, when it’s carefully and properly implemented.

It’s called a gun-violence restraining order, or GVRO.

I have a lot of respect for David French. So I believe this idea is one definitely worth considering.

Research Keeps Showing This Kind Of Teaching Is Very Effective. So Why Won’t Schools Use It? by Joy Pullman

Research Keeps Showing This Kind Of Teaching Is Very Effective. So Why Won’t Schools Use It? 

Rather than specific, concrete, knowledge-focused, systematically constructed, and carefully tested, the dominant methods teacher’s colleges pass on and state licensure requirements reinforce are open-ended, abstract, leaderless or leader-lite, focused on process instead of content, descended from romantic ideology rather than proven experience, and so on.

It's been shown that Classically-inspired "Direct Instruction" actually works. Yet all the incentives motivating the educational "blob" point in the opposite direction.

#MediocrityToo by Heather MacDonald

#MediocrityToo by Heather MacDonald

If the #MeToo movement only reduces sexual predation in the workplace, it will have been a force for good. Its most likely result, however, will be to unleash a torrent of new gender and race quotas throughout the economy and culture, on the theory that disparities in representation and employment are due to harassment and bias.

She has some interesting insight into the future implications of the #MeToo movement.

Liberals have lost their minds over immigration by Damon Linker

Liberals have lost their minds over immigration

But a surprisingly large number of liberals are taking a third, and very different, approach — not claiming that cuts to legal immigration shouldn't be made, but that the very act of proposing and defending them in the first place is morally illegitimate. These liberals appear to believe that immigration restrictionists should be excluded on principle from participating in public debate and discussion about immigration policy in the United States.
This is absurd.

When the Left claims that any discussion of immigration levels is de facto racists, they are setting the country up for an unwinable war.