Another must read-volume by Bennett: I am always interested in alerting people to good books. One way to do this is through book reviews, of…
Welfare dependency has been a real mixed bag: As governments increase in size and scope, so does the nanny state, and the turn away from…
Modern public education is far from impartial: The answer to the question posed in my title depends on what sort of education we have in…
Fear greatly our loss of freedoms and basic human rights: When the ever-expanding State effectively colludes with monolithic Tech Giants and Big Business to censor…
Schools today are more about indoctrination than education: That so much of modern Western education – from kindergarten through to the universities – is becoming…
Home-schooling continues to rise and rise for millions of parents throughout the West as the state school system continues to erode. Far too often our…
As Western culture moves from a once Christian culture through a post-Christian culture to an anti-Christian culture, there always arises the question of just how…
Everywhere in the West today we see the decline of the great universities, and the death of education in general. Instead of proper teaching and…
I know I should no longer be surprised about these sorts of things happening, but it still leaves my head and spirit reeling: I will…
In a recent article about marriage, American writer Phyllis Schlafly said this about the Marxist war against the traditional family: “Marx hated the bourgeois family,…
The ever-growing state continues to take over more and more areas of basic living. We have in fact the cradle to grave welfare state where…
Historically it has always been the church and other mediating agencies which have mainly helped the poor. Only recently have expanding states significantly usurped that…
There is perhaps no greater battleground than that of the education arena. He who can educate (or indoctrinate) our children will win not only our…
The uproar over religious education in schools is reaching fever pitch, with all the usual suspects (the ABC, the Age, etc.) going ballistic as they…
Modern, universal, secular education is largely taken for granted today in the West. But it has not always been in existence. Up until relatively recently…
All around the Western world parents are moving to homeschooling, and all around the Western world governments are getting nervous about all this, if not…
It is a common feature of totalitarian states, such as the Communist regimes, to haul recalcitrants off to camps where they can be made to…
It is not hard to produce solid reasons as to why our school system is in need of a major overhaul. On a daily basis…
What we can learn from this great thinker: We are all impacted by others for good or ill. Some are quite aware of this while…
The warnings of Christopher Lasch are just as relevant as ever: Just over 30 years ago the renowned American historian and a social critic Christopher…