For years, would-be higher-education reformers have warned that America’s higher education crisis—soaring tuition, crippling student debt, and weak learning—was rooted in a dangerous myth: every high school graduate should go to college. In 2025, the proof is glaring. Public confidence in colleges has crashed to 36%, down from 57% in 2015. The college-for-all dream, though well-intentioned, has inflated...
After Texas passed the strongest anti-DEI legislation in the country last year, the faculty and administrators who opposed it predicted apocalypse. They insisted that professors would leave Texas and no talented prospects would come to replace them. They said students would wander their campuses lost in despair without DEI’s identity-based support centers and programs that...
The proposed Dallas-to-Houston bullet train, once heralded as a transformative piece of Texas infrastructure, suffered a significant setback this week. Federal officials announced the abrupt termination of a $63.9 million planning grant for the high-speed rail project, halting its momentum just months after it was awarded. This decision by the U.S. Department of Transportation signals...
The Lone Star State’s population has exploded over the last decade with no signs of slowing down, adding 612,000 new Texans just last year. While this growth has been great for our economy (world’s 8th largest), it has stressed the limits of the state’s infrastructure from roads to water and electricity. Earlier this month, it...
One day, as part of my student-teaching at Stanford, I was explaining a math lesson to a fourth-grade classroom, when a boy became disruptive. I repeated my directions to him, but then he got up from his seat and tried to bite me. Shaken up about this, I decided to bring this to my supervisor’s...
For the first time in years, Texas parents finally have access to the truth about how their schools are performing. After years of legal challenges and strategic delays by the very school districts that were being graded, the Texas Education Agency has released long-overdue school accountability ratings. This is more than just a policy update—it’s...
Texas is America’s manufacturing and energy export powerhouse. If the Trump administration envisions a true American energy renaissance on the horizon, Texas must lead. But before Texas can lead, it must get its own grid in order. Decades of federal and state subsidies—the latter now thankfully dead—have powered an overinvestment in periodic wind and solar...
India and Pakistan appear ready for conflict, with tensions triggered by a terrorist attack on Indian citizens on April 22 in Jammu and Kashmir. India has good reason to believe that the attack originated in Pakistan from terror bases the Pakistani government knows about and supports. Prime Minister Modi of India will likely respond to the attack militarily. The...
Every Friday morning, I join the Cardle & Woolley Show on 1370 Talk Radio in Austin to announce the week’s Winners & Losers. Today marks President Donald Trump’s 95th day in office, while the Texas Legislature has knocked out 102 of the constitutionally allotted 140 days in the regular odd-year session. Here’s the list: Winner:...
Local governments across the state are currently holding elections to determine if Texans will approve new debt or not. All told, 258 separate propositions worth over $36 billion will be sent to voters for approval—and possibly more since the Bond Review Board is continually updating their database. If it all passes, the total debt held...
My brother Chase is a student at Texas A&M University, and in February, a city of College Station code enforcement officer came to the door of his house. Wearing a body camera, the officer asked three questions: “How many people live here?” “Are any of you related?” “What are your names?” He was trying to...
Gavin Newsom is dusting off John C. Calhoun’s playbook from 1832, arguing his state can nullify federal law. Oh, the irony! California Gov. Gavin Newsom, the gel-haired darling of the left, has decided to play President Andrew Jackson’s foil in a modern-day Nullification Crisis. His lawsuit to block President Donald Trump’s tariffs — filed with...