education

Special Report
Winning the Moral High Ground: Five Rules for Effective Messaging
The first question conservatives should always ask is, “Have we made a better moral case for our position than the opposition has for theirs?” That means understanding the moral issues…
by Tim Daughtry, Ph.D. on July 24, 2024

Special Report
Winning the Moral High Ground: Getting Off Defense
Even a cursory scan of the current political environment confirms that our survival as a free nation is indeed threatened, but within that threat lies an opportunity and a challenge…
by Tim Daughtry, Ph.D. on July 24, 2024

Book Profile
Advancing After Getting Education Right
Advancing from Getting Education Right to getting education right will require combating the institutions—the teachers colleges, the labor unions, the bureaucracies, the Big Philanthropies, the universities—that have put education into…
by Michael Watson on May 28, 2024

Op-Ed Column
Why Do So Many Social-Science Studies Show “Mixed” Results?
Imagine a randomized controlled trial that studied whether a particular medicine was more effective when delivered by a red or a green syringe. Such an experiment is so obviously pointless…
by Julia Nelson on May 16, 2024

Foundation Watch
Math Lessons Are Racist,
as per the Gates Foundation
Left-leaning math instructors have bought into the ridiculous ideology that “rigid” (and practical) math instruction is “white supremacist” and has been set up to “oppress” minorities. Since practically everything is…
by Kali Fontanilla on April 9, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: “Equal Chances” Fallacy
“Social justice” has become all the rage in academia, the mainstream media, and corporate boardrooms across America, spurred on by the violent Black Lives Matter movement and pseudo-thinkers like Robin…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Racial Fallacies
"They [progresssives] all believe in a big role for government. They believe that elites like themselves should be preempting other people’s decisions through the power of government. They are very…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Knowledge Fallacies
"They [progresssives] believe that the most consequential knowledge is concentrated in people like themselves. They want to preempt the decisions of other people because they feel that they can make…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Organization Trends
Thomas Sowell on Social Justice Fallacies: Affirmative Action
"The pandemic, like affirmative action, is another case of third parties setting priorities for other people. Now, it’s good that we tried to save lives during the pandemic. But once…
by David Hogberg on April 8, 2024

Podcast
InfluenceWatch Podcast #305: Black Wives Matter (with Delano Squires)
In 1965, future U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY), then an Assistant Secretary of Labor in the Johnson administration, issued a report expressing alarm at rising rates of unwed childbearing,…
by Sarah Lee, Michael Watson on February 23, 2024