At 1:00 PM Wednesday, the Texas Public Policy Foundation will participate in a press conference hosted by State Senator Dan Patrick and State Representative Ken Paxton to announce their plan to limit the growth of appropriations in Texas’ budget to the rate of the State’s population increase plus monetary inflation. To watch the press conference live, click here.
Higher Education
Don’t Shrink the Core. Fix It.
Just how bad is American higher education today? Consider this observation on today’s college students from Jessica Wilson, a professor of great books and humanities at Pepperdine: “It’s not even an inability to critically think. It’s an inability to read sentences.” She is not alone. Professors at elite colleges report that many incoming students arrive...
July 31, 2026