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Libertarian: COVID Is Reshaping Education

Pandemic-era stresses accelerated big changes to education, observes Reasons J.D. Tuccille notably, families growing acceptance of charters, homeschooling, and a host of flexible approaches to teaching kids. In December, EdChoice found that 68 percent of respondents had grown more favorable to homeschooling during the pandemic. Theyre also supporting, in similar numbers, public-funding measures (e.g., vouchers) for alternatives to traditional schooling. Such options had been gaining acceptance long before COVID-19, but the pandemic fueled discontent, as school officials, whod found educating kids a challenge in good times, left them high and dry in the midst of a public health crisis. Families that once deemed alternatives unthinkable soon began considering them. And as families go, so goes the culture.

A staggering act of appeasement, is one label for Team Bidens decision to arrange for the payment of Irans dues at the United Nations, report The New York Suns editors. Youd think the UNs decision to strip Tehran of its voting rights for failing to pay its dues would be a boon for America. Its the fruit of American sanctions, after all, and would mean that Iran would be able to foment less trouble at Turtle Bay. Yet the Biden administration arranged for $18 million of blocked Iranian funds to be released so they could pay their dues and vote. Meanwhile, Tehran finds the cash to supply weapons to the Houthis, help Hezbollah and join in naval maneuvers with Russia and China.

Democrats seem to think that the rallying cry of racism is essential to galvanizing their most loyal demographic, Black Americans, Barrington D. Martin II gripes at Newsweek. This amounts to little more than gaslighting us into submission, into voting for a party that has long ceased to do anything for us. Dems voting-rights bill isnt about helping Black voters, but maintaining political power by reinforcing the belief that the other party is racist. The idea that new voting laws put into place by GOP-led state legislatures in the wake of the 2020 election were created to disenfranchise Black voters is a ridiculous claim, one that shows the subconscious disdain Democratic officials have for their Black voter base.

The University of Torontos Jordan Peterson has left his professorial post, notes J. Scott Turner at Spectator World, and no wonder: The academy has changed fundamentally, and with each passing year there are fewer and fewer who can restore it. For refusing to use novel pronouns preferred by the transgendered, Peterson was denounced as a bigot, his university threatened his career, his speaking events were disrupted and his fellow academics deserted him: Totalitarian states, which our universities are coming to resemble, are kept in power by the skillful use of lies and pressure to conform. Yet change is not irrevocable. In late-1980s Eastern Europe totalitarian regimes collapsed catastrophically once people began to see that they were not alone in their doubts. We need fewer people willing to acquiesce in the lies, about race, about gender, about the soothing tropes of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

The latest polling, warns National Journals Josh Kraushaar, shows Joe Biden isnt just losing support among typical swing voters . . . hes now starting to take friendly fire from his own base. And its a self-inflicted problem, since he inflated expectations among his supporters that hed pass a transformative big-government agenda like FDR and LBJ. In NBC polling, his 40 percent job approval among the youngest voters (age 18-34) is down 16 points since April. Worse: Hes only winning over 64 percent of African-American voters. The White House insists Republicans have no agenda, but being the opposition party without an agenda is a better place to be than the governing party facing a mutiny within the ranks.

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