Education Week’s Sarah Schwartz has an interesting new article out that discusses “Why Schools Are Not Holding Students Back to Address COVID-19 Learning Loss.”In it she notes that at least 84% of school districts plan to promote all students to the next grade despite the pandemic interrupting their education to a degree that is unprecedented... Continue Reading →
How Does A Freedom-Loving Gun Owner Feel About Wearing Masks During the Pandemic?
As a gun owner, I don't need the government to tell me to follow a few simple rules of gun safety. The first is muzzle discipline: I point guns only at things I intend to destroy. You might think this would be a universal practice, but shocking numbers of people mistakenly shoot each other (and... Continue Reading →
Might China Allow (or Order) Women To Have Multiple Husbands?
Photo credit Zhang Kaiyv For thirty six years from 1981 through 2015, China's Communist leadership forcefully limited couples to a single child. At the time, China's population was exploding faster than its ability to feed itself. As a result it was highly vulnerable to famines such as the one that, by 1962, had caused thirty million Chinese... Continue Reading →