Outside the Beltway

The Trump administration treats personally disfavored American institutions the way past administrations treated foreign adversaries. His goal is political submission.

Elite American universities are surrending at an astonishing pace.

Sad and strange circumstances have forced the Democratic party to become the conservative party now. It’s important to remind ourselves of what is good in our lives and what is worth defending. 

A stark observation.

Three members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been fired.

An accurate description.

Trump’s reaction to the air disaster is telling in a variety of ways.

The courts will decide whether we have a President or a King.

Piling absurdity atop cruelty.

Federal workers are afraid and in the dark.

On Christian compassion (and hypocrisy) and a little bit of the Streisand Effect for good measure.

Agencies are quickly seeking to comply with the President’s order.

Another severe deviation from our norms.

Here we go again.

And, more broadly, about the normalization of Trump

The man tabbed to lead the Defense Department was deemed an “insider threat.”

There is no such thing as “the perfect candidate.”

The Congressman and Green Beret colonel will head Trump’s national security team.

The MSG rally.

Our long national nightmare is not over.

What makes a good school good?

The New College of Florida invites a white supremacist to campus.

More data shows a more complicated picture.

It would be nice if it just happened without any help.

The predicted has happened.

The soft bigotry of low expectations.

They’re apparently ongoing. Who knew?

Facts versus framing, with a little Mandela effect thrown in for good measure.

Is all diversity created equal?

Our natural instincts in hiring are wrong.

The world’s largest democracy just became more democratic.

After weeks of protest, a solid effort.

Seven decades after de jure segregation was outlawed, de facto segregation is alive and well.

The United States has less press freedom than 54 countries. Or does it?

Novo Nordisk is worth more than home country’s Denmark annual GDP.

Are we betraying the Founders?

On-campus classes have been suspended and Jewish students told to find safety.

Rural Americans are misunderstood!

A major effort to capture the diversity of America.

Some interesting tidbits.

Of party, duty, age, and political roulette.

It’s harder than I would have thought.

Repeated academic integrity violations led to her forced ouster.

The DeSantis crackdown on academic freedom is having its desired effect.

The longtime politician and statesman is gone at 75.

There’s an inherent tension in public education.

His column in the Houston Chronicle fails to impress.