When I entered the first grade, I was assigned to the lowest reading group. This came as a shock to my mom, as I had always loved books. Over the winter break, my mom and I read from “Fun with Zip and Zap,” a phonics chapter book. When I returned to school after the break,...
Last month, Comptroller Kelly Hancock’s office launched the official website for the state’s new school choice program, known as Texas Education Freedom Accounts. Under TEFA, eligible Texas children can receive public funds deposited into a personalized account to be used for approved education expenses. These include private school tuition, textbooks, tutoring, specialized therapies, transportation to...
Foreign intervention, for many millennials like myself, has the taste of bitter fruit. Just the phrase passing our lips is going to produce turned-up noses followed by talking points about how many of our overseas adventures failed. I am one of those fist clenchers — at least I thought I was. Still, coming to “trust...
In this article, I explained how library organizations focus on Leftist obsessions like race and sexuality instead of education. The downsides of Leftist content in classrooms are obvious—instead of acquiring knowledge, students are indoctrinated into Marxist views of history, economics, and biology. But the real danger of this focus on Leftist drivel, however, runs much...
In the wake of the narco-regime’s takedown, five lessons emerge — for the region, for the U.S., and for the world. Venezuela’s corrupt leaders got away with it for too long. They sent forth millions of their own citizenry to be trafficked, and they got away with it. They trafficked the drugs that killed and addicted...
Nearly all political sentiment for the past decade has been mediated through the lens of prior reaction to Donald Trump. Those who like the American president, or at least aren’t fixated on him, tend to give his actions in government a fair assessment. So, in the case of the American raid on Caracas to arrest Nicolás Maduro,...
Fraud investigations are engulfing Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, but that isn’t the only issue demanding attention in that state. The state’s election system is being exposed for vulnerabilities that undermine transparency and confidence in democracy. Recent reporting has brought renewed attention to just how permissive Minnesota’s election framework has become. The state allows voters to...
In late January, the State Board of Education will begin the process of reversing decades of declining literacy by considering a preliminary list of required readings for Texas public schools. This charge was delivered to the SBOE by the Legislature in response to disappointing state and national assessment results and university educators sounding the alarm...
After a year of debating and finally passing a new curriculum for Texas public schools, it seems like the day after Christmas is a good time to re-visit this piece I wrote in 2024 about cultural illiteracy and the importance of understanding the role Christianity plays in the foundation of our western culture. “Sermon on...
Set at a New England boarding school around Christmas 1970, Alexander Payne’s 2023 film, The Holdovers centers on the school’s three holiday “holdovers”, that is, those who are unable to leave campus for the winter break. Occupying the empty campus during the frigid northeastern winter is Paul Hunham (Paul Giamatti), a cranky, unmarried classics teacher...
The House just took an important step toward restoring sanity to America’s health care system by voting to support the Republican health care plan. While critics will reflexively attack the vote, the reality is that the right is finally confronting the real drivers of high health care costs. It rolls back costly federal mandates, expands...
Throughout 2025, I joined the Cardle & Woolley Show every Friday morning on Talk 1370 Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Starting with the inauguration of President Donald Trump’s second term and an epic session of the Texas Legislature, 2025 has been an epic year, changing the course of history in...