Summary: All government unions are profoundly harmful, but the most damaging are the teachers’ unions. Since 2020, they have lobbied and agitated successfully to keep kids out of schools—and keep their members receiving a paycheck despite not showing up at work. They have forced children to wear masks for eight hours a day despite the […]
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‘The narrative of police genocide of African Americans turned out … to be complete nonsense,’ said Wilfred Reilly. Florida State University professor whose work was foundational to perpetuating the false narrative that there is widespread “systemic racism” infecting American society has been fired for falsifying data in his academic research on the subject. In a […]
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The immigration crisis is crushing New York City. According to ABC7 news, last week alone 2900 new “asylum seekers” entered one of the city’s 200 new emergency shelters. Mayor Eric Adams says the city spends $383 per day per family on food, shelter and other expenses, which are deemed the migrants’ right to receive for […]
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Each year, almost three million American women face an unplanned pregnancy. When a pregnancy is unwanted and those involved are not ready, willing or able to parent, that is a dilemma for which there is no ideal solution. The obvious options for one facing an unplanned pregnancy are abortion, parenting and adoption, but few among […]
https://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/ultrasound.jpg7481000Terri Marcrofthttps://pricklypear.news/wp-content/uploads/logo_2023.pngTerri Marcroft2023-09-16 00:32:082023-09-16 15:19:00Weekend Read: How Abortion Hurts Women
In August of 2020, Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony published an essay on the website Quillete, entitled “The Challenge of Marxism”. Setting aside the fact that the major challenge of Marxism is the inherent stupidity and vice of human beings, and their infernal urge to systematize it, Mr. Hazony set out to explain how Marxism has […]
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A professor hailing from China with a World Economic Forum (WEF) background is behind critical race and gender theory research on children at two of Arizona’s taxpayer-funded universities. Sonya Xinyue Xiao teaches psychological science and performs developmental research on moral and gender development at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Xiao was a postdoctoral scholar at the […]
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Patrick T. Brown, a climate scientist, wrote Tuesday in The Free Press that he deliberately omitted the “full truth” from a paper he recently authored in order to increase its chances of publication in a prestigious journal. Brown explained his decision-making in the piece, asserting that he overlooked truths in his work in order to make […]
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Will their upheaval succeed? In the last 20 years, the Left has boasted that it has gained control of most of America institutions of power and influence—the corporate boardroom, media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the administrative state, academia, foundations, social media, entertainment, professional sports, and Hollywood. With such support, between 2009-17, Barack Obama was […]
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I am enormously grateful to Law & Liberty for recruiting such heavy hitters to respond to my lead essay. What a joy to get such humbling and instructive comments, each brimming with its author’s characteristic intellectual virtues. I thank all four responders and only regret that the imperative for brevity in this summary reply means I […]
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The wrong answer has resulted in the wrong public policies. A popular narrative is that institutional racism explains why African Americans, as a group, on average, experience higher poverty rates, lower test scores, fewer advancement opportunities, worse health outcomes, higher arrest rates, longer prison sentences, fewer housing options, and higher rates of being victims […]
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Teachers’ Unions vs. Teachers, Parents, and Children: The NEA and AFT
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, Politics/by Aaron WitheSummary: All government unions are profoundly harmful, but the most damaging are the teachers’ unions. Since 2020, they have lobbied and agitated successfully to keep kids out of schools—and keep their members receiving a paycheck despite not showing up at work. They have forced children to wear masks for eight hours a day despite the […]
Academic Whose Work Was Cited As Proof Of ‘Systemic Racism’ Is Fired For Falsifying Research
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Politics/by Shawn Fleetwood‘The narrative of police genocide of African Americans turned out … to be complete nonsense,’ said Wilfred Reilly. Florida State University professor whose work was foundational to perpetuating the false narrative that there is widespread “systemic racism” infecting American society has been fired for falsifying data in his academic research on the subject. In a […]
The Unconscionable Surge At The Border Must End
/in Culture War, Economy, Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Latest News, National Security, Politics/by Thomas C. PattersonThe immigration crisis is crushing New York City. According to ABC7 news, last week alone 2900 new “asylum seekers” entered one of the city’s 200 new emergency shelters. Mayor Eric Adams says the city spends $383 per day per family on food, shelter and other expenses, which are deemed the migrants’ right to receive for […]
Weekend Read: How Abortion Hurts Women
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Healthcare, Latest News, Life Advocacy/by Terri MarcroftEach year, almost three million American women face an unplanned pregnancy. When a pregnancy is unwanted and those involved are not ready, willing or able to parent, that is a dilemma for which there is no ideal solution. The obvious options for one facing an unplanned pregnancy are abortion, parenting and adoption, but few among […]
Goodbye, Mr. Anderson
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, Politics/by Conlan SalgadoIn August of 2020, Israeli scholar Yoram Hazony published an essay on the website Quillete, entitled “The Challenge of Marxism”. Setting aside the fact that the major challenge of Marxism is the inherent stupidity and vice of human beings, and their infernal urge to systematize it, Mr. Hazony set out to explain how Marxism has […]
Chinese Professor With World Economic Forum History Leads Critical Race, Gender Theory Research On Children At ASU, NAU
/in Arizona News, Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Life Advocacy/by Corinne MurdockA professor hailing from China with a World Economic Forum (WEF) background is behind critical race and gender theory research on children at two of Arizona’s taxpayer-funded universities. Sonya Xinyue Xiao teaches psychological science and performs developmental research on moral and gender development at Northern Arizona University (NAU). Xiao was a postdoctoral scholar at the […]
Scientist Admits Omitting “Full Truth” From Climate Study To Get It Published
/in Culture War, Education, Environment, Featured, Latest News, Politics/by Nick PopePatrick T. Brown, a climate scientist, wrote Tuesday in The Free Press that he deliberately omitted the “full truth” from a paper he recently authored in order to increase its chances of publication in a prestigious journal. Brown explained his decision-making in the piece, asserting that he overlooked truths in his work in order to make […]
Weekend Read: What the Left Did to Our Country
/in Culture War, Education, Environment, Featured, Healthcare, Latest News, Liberty, National Security, Politics/by Victor Davis HansonWill their upheaval succeed? In the last 20 years, the Left has boasted that it has gained control of most of America institutions of power and influence—the corporate boardroom, media, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, the administrative state, academia, foundations, social media, entertainment, professional sports, and Hollywood. With such support, between 2009-17, Barack Obama was […]
Don’t Give Up on the Constitution
/in Culture War, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, Politics/by Yuval LevinI am enormously grateful to Law & Liberty for recruiting such heavy hitters to respond to my lead essay. What a joy to get such humbling and instructive comments, each brimming with its author’s characteristic intellectual virtues. I thank all four responders and only regret that the imperative for brevity in this summary reply means I […]
Institutional Racism: Fact or Fiction?
/in Culture War, Economy, Education, Featured, Latest News, Liberty, Politics/by Craig J. CantoniThe wrong answer has resulted in the wrong public policies. A popular narrative is that institutional racism explains why African Americans, as a group, on average, experience higher poverty rates, lower test scores, fewer advancement opportunities, worse health outcomes, higher arrest rates, longer prison sentences, fewer housing options, and higher rates of being victims […]