
Mayor McClean, Boise City Council Give $3 Million Federal Grant to Non-Profit Sexualizing Kids, Endorsing CRT
In 2020 Mayor Lauren McLean’s platform for “A More Equitable City” endorsed “racial equity, white fragility and implicit bias training or book readings” and establishing “sex education…

Rocky Top Goes Woke
How the University of Tennessee–Knoxville did an end-run around state legislators to implement a radical “antiracist” agenda. Since 2020’s summer of racial unrest, universities across the country have increasingly…

The Politics of Competence
This interview was originally published by City Journal on December 10, 2021. Joshua Mitchell is professor of political theory at Georgetown University and…

Critical Social Justice in K-12 Education, Part 1: The Sexualization of Kids – Even in Idaho?
This post is part of a series published by the Center for American Education and the Idaho Freedom Foundation. Here is a link to the…

Critical Race Theory Rewrites History
National Socialism, Maoism and Marxism-Leninism all have one thing in common: they boil down human experience to one aspect, such as race or class, and diminish the struggles and…

Equality In Servitude
From Citizen Competence to Therapeutic Despotism This article appeared originally in RealClearPublicAffairs as part of its 1776 Series, which seeks to explain the “major themes defining the American mind.” A…

DEI vs. USD
This article was co-authored with Linda Sweeney and originally published on October 4, 2021 by The American Mind. Linda Sweeney is president and founder of Alumni and Donors…

Christianity’s Walking Dead
Eighteenth-century philosophers had a very simple explanation for the gradual weakening of beliefs. Religious zeal, they said, was bound to die down as enlightenment and freedom spread. It is…

Waking up to Woke Education
Citizens are awakening to the dangers Critical Race Theory and its associated theories pose to our country. What should awakened Americans seek to accomplish? All of that depends on how…

Academic Freedom Doesn’t Shield Universities From Oversight
State legislatures are taking up higher education reform. Sometimes higher education reform consists of attempts to regulate what happens on college campuses, such as laws that prohibit universities from…