Outside the Beltway

Who needs fancy book learnin’ if you already have all the answers?

Ramping up the H-1B fees is not a good idea.

Naturalized citizens advance and vivify the American experiment. 

An illustration from the Charlie Kirk discourse as to why stories like the TAMU firing matter.

And let’s look at the catalog, shall we?

A student, her cell phone, and yet more authoritarianism in contemporary America.

The mathematician best known for his satirical songs is gone at 97.

Preaching to the choir only works if the choir is in the audience.

Believe it when people tell you who they are.

Cruz on supporting Israel.

She’s making no one happy.

These sweet, anxious, thoughtful, and genuinely loveable students know in their bones that their future is deeply uncertain and shaped by adults who appear to have no idea what they’re doing.

A 20% reduction would require massive changes in law and approach.

A series of orders impacting military education.

The scholar-statesman best known for coining “soft power” has died at 88.

Machines have been eliminating blue collar jobs for decades. Now they’re coming for white collar jobs.

Public misconceptions about federal waste invite tolerance for questionable workarounds to the constitutionally prescribed manner of determining appropriations.

An OTB example to illustrate a larger problem.

The sadly predicted has come to pass.

The unorthodox non-agency agency run by no one in particular may violate the basic rules of our system.

Legions of unpaid drones . . . ? . . . budget cuts.

The move paves the way for Kash Patel or another Trump appointee.

Appointing unqualified loyalists is only the start.

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

What makes a good school good?

And yes, Trump fits the definitions all too well.

The legendary singer, songwriter, and actor is gone at 88.

The US Presidential election pits “two evils” who are “against life.”

Thoughts that didn’t fit in my last post

Fast food silliness.

A third (and hopefully final) post on the matter.

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.

“Dr. Ruth” is gone at 96.

A deep dive into why imperfect Criminal Legal System data is still reliable

A pending mandate in Louisiana

Americans are concerned about very different things.

The AP journalist taken hostage for almost seven years has died.

Two related questions.

The inevitable pushback against the pushback has begun.

A longtime friend has passed.

Our pacing threat is hiring military veterans with special skills.

The push to return to the office comes with domestic consequences.

There’s an inherent tension in public education.

West Virginia University may be the canary in the coal mine.