Opinion
A liberal-arts education is about learning how to be free
Far too many students (and adults) think of liberty not as a condition requiring virtue and wisdom but as a license to do whatever you want.
Opinion
This month in 1861: After taking Outer Banks forts, Union forms pivotal black regiments
The NC black regiments, formed after the victory, also helped win a key Union battle at the war’s end, the capture of Wilmington by taking Fort Fisher.
Opinion
Book bans are dangerous. Curating age-appropriate school material is not.
Book bans have been a real problem in history, typically by totalitarian governments — whether Marxist, fascist, theocratic, or otherwise. But parents who don’t want their young children given explicit tutorials on how to practice the latest sexual fads are not Robespierres in training. They just want the bare minimum of decency and common sense...
Opinion
Children are the greatest blessing, and they’re pure entertainment
“The family is the fountainhead of all mental and moral influence,” declared the famous abolitionist Frederik Douglass.
Opinion
DeSantis breathes life into social conservatism
Social conservatism simply means believing that life is imperfect and it’s essential to promote moral virtues for humans to flourish. Yet, it’s been unfairly maligned for decades.
Opinion
Gun control’s racist past is finally making big headlines
Some on the left are trying to tie the Second Amendment to racism, yet it's gun control laws that are the true culprit.
Opinion
Mark Twain and Andrew Breitbart ponder curated resentment theory
If you raft on the river of popular culture, then you can hardly do better than to hire Mark Twain and Andrew Breitbart as your guides. One man lived long enough to become the elder statesman of American letters by 1910, and the other died young in 2012, but both of them paid sharp attention...
News
Robinson helps national campaign against anti-American indoctrination
Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson is backing a national group’s fight against “anti-American indoctrination,” including critical race theory, in public school classrooms. The group 1776 Action released a video this week with Robinson explaining his support for the campaign. We’re thrilled to have the support of @markrobinsonNC in our fight to stop anti-American indoctrination in our...
Opinion
I pledge allegiance to the flag
In order to be loved, a country must be lovely. It need not be flawless. In fact, no society—excepting the eternal City—is flawless. But to garner affection, it must be loveable. The World War II generation recognized our nation’s loveliness and gave everything they had to defend it. In fact, the sacrifices of that generation...
Opinion
Former slave blazed trail for writers
Pure, unadulterated freedom is what Harriet Jacobs and so many other North Carolinians were long denied. Pure, unadulterated freedom is the goal for which so many fought, sometime paying the ultimate price.
Opinion
Who decides what public schools teach?
I don’t write much about what happens inside of the classroom simply because there is so little information about it. Content standards adopted by the N.C. Department of Public Instruction outline the sequence, topics, and learning goals for each grade and subject. Curricula and instructional decisions are made on the district, school, and departmental levels....
Opinion
Freedmen’s Bank Helped Fuel Hopes For Free-Labor Economy
The institution served recently freed slaves for nearly a decade after the Civil War.
