By Stephen Palmer Why can’t the freedom movement seem to get any traction? Why have we lost battle after battle for at least the past century? It’s because we tend to make the good the enemy of the perfect, the pragmatic the enemy of the ideal. To be clear, it’s because the most passionate among [...]
By Kevin Mogavero This past weekend, I had the pleasure of speaking with a good friend of mine whom I have a great deal of respect. She is a teacher in a low-income-area elementary school. We had an inspiring conversation about our current school system, they way “things are” in our society today and how [...]
By Bryan Hyde When 28 year old Jared Massey was tasered alongside the highway by a Utah state trooper in 2007, the incident elicited a lot of strong opinions. Comments ran the gamut from, “The motorist was a criminal who deserved it” to “The trooper is living proof that the police are out of control.” [...]
By Stephen Palmer The fact that I’m politically unaffiliated makes a lot of people uncomfortable; they want to know exactly where I stand. There’s a misguided perception that Independents hold an insipid, contradictory hodge-podge of middle-ground beliefs because we can’t make up our minds. Just because dogmatic ideologues can’t squash my holistic beliefs into their [...]
By Oliver DeMille Home Schools, the New Private Schools, and Other Non-Traditional Learning The current national commentary on American education is split by a major paradox. On the one hand, nearly all the experts are convinced that our schools must find a way to effectively and consistently teach the values and skills of innovation and [...]
Is it Avoidable or Inevitable? “We’re not going to bail our way out of this crisis, we’re not going to stimulate our way out of this crisis, we are only going to educate, ultimately, and imagine and invent our way out of this crisis.” —Thomas L. Friedman, Meet the Press “By 2020, the U.S. [...]
By Shanon Brooks Read Part One Here Must an education be limited to completing a checklist of courses in order to receive a certificate of conformance to present as evidence to a prospective employer of having met a minimum standard of proficiency in practical, productive job skills? Is an education limited to passing through a [...]
By Bryan Hyde When a friend offered to lend me his copy of Claire Wolfe’s book The Freedom Outlaw’s Handbook, I eagerly accepted. I had long read her articles in Backwoods Home magazine and on World Net Daily and I enjoyed her no-holds-barred approach to remaining free in an increasingly unfree world. Wolfe is likely [...]
Home Schools, the New Private Schools, and Other Non-Traditional Learning By Oliver DeMille The current national commentary on American education is split by a major paradox. On the one hand, nearly all the experts are convinced that our schools must find a way to effectively and consistently teach the values and skills of innovation and [...]
By Chris Brady I flipped a coin. Seriously. My father and I were trying to decide which division of General Motors should be my “sponsor” during my co-op work experience while attending GMI Engineering & Management Institute (Kettering University today). The choice was between Buick and AC, and AC won the flip. Weeks [...]
