There has been a spate of recent articles proffering when the People’s Republic of China (PRC) will likely be capable of invading Taiwan. The prognostications are interesting but unhelpful as they distract from the reality of the range of coercive actions the PRC may impose on Taiwan and what could happen now as a result of the PRC increasing pressure and a related military accident or misstep in the vicinity of Taiwan.
California’s new math proposal, which blends current ideas in social justice and antiracist thought with mathematics instruction, is a culturally driven agenda that will almost certainly fail those whom it is intended to help. The proposal, whose curriculum focuses on “social inequities” using “trauma-informed pedagogies,” provides no compelling arguments for why this approach will be better than traditional math education.
In this episode of Battlegrounds, H.R. McMaster and former Canadian Ambassador to the US David MacNaughton discuss the U.S.-Canada relationship and its implications for trade, economics, security, and climate policy.
The July 1 front-page obituary on Donald H. Rumsfeld, “Divisive Pentagon chief oversaw two wars,” was a disappointing whitewash. It contained not a single word about Rumsfeld’s most significant use of his power in government: justifying the invasion of Iraq on a pretext he knew to be false. The obituary also lacked any mention of the devastating consequences: hundreds of thousands dead.
Hoover Institution fellow Niall Ferguson discusses what lies ahead and argues that predictions of a 'Roaring Twenties' may be replaced with the 'Boring Twenties'.
Non-fiction books take, on average, eight to 12 months to write, followed by an additional year or so of editing, fact-checking, organizing, and other publishing wizardry. The time between book proposal and bookshelf is roughly two years.
It is one of the unfortunate ironies coming out of the Biden administration that, with all the obsession about so-called equity, policies they are putting forth will only hurt the very low-income Americans they pretend to want to help.
