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Dr. Carol Swain

From high school dropout to teenage wife and mother to highly accomplished university professor and public intellectual, Dr. Carol Swain is passionate about empowering others to confidently raise their voices in the public square. Her clarion call is for We the People to stand up and Be the People who change our nation and world.

K-12 Education

Teachers’ unions locked kids out of schools to get more of your money, not for safety

Teachers’ unions and Democrats want to perpetuate COVID pandemic forever Way to go, teachers unions! America’s school children were among the big casualties of COVID-19 pandemic policies. Shuttered schools and remote learning sank national math scores, slashed individual lifetime earnings, and stunted the economic growth potential. Once again, our children were political pawns in a...

January 16, 2023

Critical Race Theory

‘Transformational SEL’ is traumatizing students

As of this winter, 36 states had passed legislation aimed at keeping critical race theory and other “divisive concepts,” sometimes referred to in law as “prohibited concepts,” out of K-12 public school classrooms. Despite these efforts, these very concepts are still being taught under the guise of addressing mental health and well-being. And I fear it is...

July 6, 2022

Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory: Is it a University-Level Course or a Diet for Our Children?

Last year, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill putting the brakes on critical race Theory (CRT) in the classroom. CRT is a familiar term to most college graduates: it’s a worldview rooted in cultural Marxism, critical theory, and postmodernist theories. Although you’d think an idea like this wouldn’t be found in a...

March 30, 2022

Critical Race Theory

Why the Senate should reject Ketanji Brown Jackson

Unless Republicans and Democrats begin to place the good of the nation above raw politics, the Senate will use a rushed process to place Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on the Supreme Court. We have heard that the Senate needs to make history by appointing a Black woman, even though Democrats, led by then-Sen. Joe Biden rejected former...

March 28, 2022

Critical Race Theory

Why the Senate Should Reject the Tokenism That Is Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson

Tokenism is the inclusion of a person in a group for the purpose of avoiding criticism that people of a particular kind have been excluded. It wasn’t long ago that tokenism was looked down on by most people. Apparently, having a token Black woman for the U.S, Supreme Court is an exception. President Joe Biden...

March 28, 2022

K-12 Education

Our children have sacrificed enough: It’s time to end pointless mask mandates

Why aren’t more of us challenging the Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) masking recommendations for children? Despite changes in indoor masking requirements that have liberated most adults, the CDC continues to cling to unscientific COVID-19 guidelines that harm our children by keeping them masked for no good reason. In many school districts, parents have been stripped of the authority to opt-out...

February 28, 2022

Higher Education

Is Your College Woke? Here’s How to Tell

America’s elite institutions of higher education have long remained the home of “woke” ideologies and divisive concepts which most Americans would rebuff. For this tiny fraction of those teaching and being educated at our nation’s elite colleges, the prevailing factors used to describe any type of racial disparities, whether it be in health care, education,...

January 12, 2022

Critical Race Theory

Critical race theory bans protect our history and students

If the public had been largely unaware of the pervasiveness of critical race theory in America’s public schools, the shock waves of Virginia’s election have made sure people, particularly parents, are now paying attention. The Texas Legislature joined several other states and passed an anti-CRT bill earlier this year. To fight back, proponents of the...

November 11, 2021