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When local officials accept federal funds for the higher purpose of more qualitative national standards in education, about all they get is the “national” part, a trend now evident as states are urged by the federal government to adopt national curriculum standards known as “Common Core.”

On the 50^th anniversary of Whittaker Chambers’ death, July 9, it is appropriate for the media to address the legacy of international communism and the Western response.

Many presidents have, on occasion, done weird things—only one president of the 44 is Weird.

What do Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, William Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama all have in common?

Woodrow Wilson has  suddenly emerged as a hot topic in our current politics.

The number of genuine intellectuals in academia goes down every year while the ranks of ersatz scholars grow.

The war on Christmas has been waged for a number of years.

The people of Poland got an early Christmas present this year.

In the 1930s, marathons and amateur contests allowed beleaguered Americans to literally sing and dance through the Depression. In this economic downturn, the Lumina Foundation urges suffering Americans to go back to school.

Accommodation of the Soviet Union, to one degree or another, was itself a byproduct of academic thought.

What Milton Friedman said half a century ago  is now obvious.

This week marks 65 years since the United States dropped the atomic bomb.