Promoting every student to the next grade during COVID is a disaster waiting to happen. Here’s what schools should consider instead.

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...

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...

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...