Outside the Beltway

Dictating the curriculum from on high.

The state of being too big to care.

Or, why having simpletons in charge is a bad idea.

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.