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Dominant media push skewed narratives on racial issues such as crime rates, police use of force, incarceration rates, and educational achievement gaps. Is it wrong for the corporate media to exclusively blame white racism for all racial problems? Dr. Atlas interviews Kentucky State University professor Wilfred Reilly, a leading diagnostician of popular racialist thinking.
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Williamson M. Evers (Real Clear Education)
Should math class teach math or “social justice”? Unfortunately, California education bureaucrats are confused on this point, and the state’s 5.8 million public schoolchildren are at risk of innumeracy as a result. Both the Los Angeles Times and Fox News just spotlighted this article by Williamson Evers, as the battle over math education heats up.
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Christopher J. Calton (Mises.org)
Inflation or illusion? Learn why the consumer price index that politicians and media outlets trot out is a questionable measurement...and what’s really going on behind price rises.
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Samuel R. Staley (The Beacon)
With his biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb” turned skeptic of nuclear weapons, Christopher Nolan continues to establish himself as an astute and adroit filmmaker. He doesn’t hide Oppenheimer’s leftist political sympathies, or the role of plain old cut-throat politics in the development of unimaginable weaponry.
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Volume 26, Issue 31: July 25, 2023
Dominant media push skewed narratives on racial issues such as crime rates, police use of force, incarceration rates, and educational achievement gaps. Is it wrong for the corporate media to exclusively blame white racism for all racial problems? Dr. Atlas interviews Kentucky State University professor Wilfred Reilly, a leading diagnostician of popular racialist thinking.
WATCH NOW »Williamson M. Evers (Real Clear Education)
Should math class teach math or “social justice”? Unfortunately, California education bureaucrats are confused on this point, and the state’s 5.8 million public schoolchildren are at risk of innumeracy as a result. Both the Los Angeles Times and Fox News just spotlighted this article by Williamson Evers, as the battle over math education heats up.
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K-12 Education: Subject Matter, Curriculum, and Teaching Methods
Recommended Readings on Foundational Issues
Recommended Readings on Foundational Issues
By Williamson M. Evers
Christopher J. Calton (Mises.org)
Inflation or illusion? Learn why the consumer price index that politicians and media outlets trot out is a questionable measurement...and what’s really going on behind price rises.
READ MORE »
Samuel R. Staley (The Beacon)
With his biopic of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “father of the atomic bomb” turned skeptic of nuclear weapons, Christopher Nolan continues to establish himself as an astute and adroit filmmaker. He doesn’t hide Oppenheimer’s leftist political sympathies, or the role of plain old cut-throat politics in the development of unimaginable weaponry.
READ MORE »
In Search of Monsters to Destroy
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
The Folly of American Empire and the Paths to Peace
By Christopher J. Coyne
The Beacon: New Blog Posts
- Shielding Buttigieg’s Jet-Set Waste is a Bipartisan Issue, by K. Lloyd Billingsley
- Government Hubris, AI Central to Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1, by Samuel R. Staley
- Unraveling the Algebra II-Data Science Debate in California K–12 Schools, by Williamson M. Evers and Jonathan Hofer
Catalyst: New Articles
- How Sound Economics Birthed the Video Game Era, by Christopher Calton
- Gallup Poll Reveals Plummeting Confidence in Public Schools, by Kerry McDonald
- Tourist Visas: A Path To Corruption, by Scott Beyer
