Can parents sue a private school when the school expels their children merely because the parents asked questions about what is being taught and expressed concerns for their children’s health and safety? This is the question currently before the NC Court of Appeals. Our two children were expelled from their private school, Charlotte Latin, by a...
George Orwell’s name, to me, evokes memories of 10th grade as I sat, uncomfortably, in a small wooden desk on the second floor of my un-airconditioned high school in a rural farming town in eastern North Carolina, about as far away from dystopia as one could imagine. Maria — whose curly blond hair and mischievous,...
Temper the alarmism. Free speech on college campuses is not “dead” — though the culture of free speech certainly needs a makeover. Unless you have lived under a leaden rock for the past five years, you have undoubtedly heard stories about the decline of open dialogue on college campuses. One only has to look at...
The roots of cancel culture first took hold on college campuses, where outspoken pockets of angry students began shouting down teachers and classmates who dared to voice opposing viewpoints. Hundreds of cases of retaliation have since been reported. But today, the news isn’t all bad. Change is taking place on the very college and university campuses where cancel culture first bloomed. North Carolina’s...
Whether one calls “wokeness” an ideology, pedagogy, or religion, it is evident that our culture, our institutions, and our politics have had their immune systems sufficiently weakened and our value propositions corrupted by this social mind virus. Examples in North Carolina include everything from displaying Black Lives Matter flags prominently from the Town Hall during...
Most of us are, of course, more familiar with the thin blue line — law enforcement that protects us from one another, and even from ourselves. Politically, however, during the recent elections, many conservatives were hopeful for a thick red line to save us from ideological miscreants in Congress. The end result proved not more...
Our right to be offensive is increasingly being seen as this pesky, little symptom of the First Amendment that must be either begrudgingly entertained or reluctantly accepted. People will casually write off being offensive as uncouth or unbecoming of a civilized society; they are, however, mistaken. The ones who are annoyed by our right to...
Animals are victims of ‘human supremacy,’ growing student organization claims “Students Opposing Speciesism” is the name of the organization. I think all of us are for proper and humane treatment of animals but it’s interesting this group wants to strip people of their humanity. Hyperwoke librarian at $60,000-a-year NYC private school who believes that gender...
We should celebrate the return to Constitutional fidelity.
Below are some stories that caught my attention this week. The last two are probably the most interesting from a cultural perspective. One story has to do with the massive shift in journalism, in which many in the media now protect the power structure over the little guy (or the working class) to empowered mobs...
When it comes to cancel culture and big tech, nothing is more high profile right now than medical doctors or other health professionals being de-platformed over dissenting views on COVID-19.
