Politics | Politics

Biden’s Student-Debt Bonfire Is a Classist Message to the Uncredentialed: Screw ’Em | National Review

Scranton Joe is sending cash from the people he cynically pretends to care about to the people he really cares about.

Miscellaneous | Education

‘It Just Works’: Progressive Educators Rediscover Power of Phonics after Failing with DEI-Infused Method | National Review

A former school principal told NR that the move to a social-injustice infused teaching method disproportionately harmed minority students.

Politics | Politics

Hunter Biden Investigation Must Look at Joe | National Review

The major question is whether Hunter is a vehicle by which Joe Biden indirectly cashed in on his political influence.

News | Israel & The Jewish Community

National Review & Bias Against The Chasidic Community: Yes, Jewish Lives Matter

Like mainstream newspapers, Zachary Evans’s article recycled many tropes about Chassidim. More concerning is National Review’s institutional response.

Having spent lots of time, and having many friends, in the Chassidic community, I can tell you that this article nails it (although I have never met a Chasid who “hates the IDF”). Unfortunately, the issue with the National Review proves, again, that Jews can be as unwelcome on the right as we are on the left, although Antisemitism is becoming far more common, and accepted, on the left.

“What does bloc voting have to do with antisemitism? Why is it even in the article?
Someone who knew the community might have written an actual description of Haredi life: The degree to which violent crime falls to near-zero in Chassidic neighborhoods, property values shoot up when they move in, tax rolls are filled (every Chassidic kid enrolled in a Yeshiva rather than public school saves the state about $25,000), and communal services such as ambulance corps (available to all) flourish. Evans might have pointed out that Chassidim in Kiryas Yoel (an all-Chassidic town) make perfectly average incomes, despite a near common-consensus by outsiders to the contrary.”

Politics | Politics

Don’t Root against the Economy | National Review

President Trump fears a conspiracy of forces are trying to push the country into an economic recession.

I’m a big fan of Geraghty’s work.

Politics | Politics

Immigration Crisis: Why Donald Trump Won | National Review

There is a profound gulf between those Americans who think illegal immigration is no big deal and those who think it is a very big deal indeed.