California Students File Lawsuit Against Tenure Laws

Finally, students are taking matters into their own hands, demanding that school districts recognize the needs of the students, not the wishes of teachers' unions or the will of self-will run-riot school boards. Not only attacking teacher tenure, which enables bad...

Thoughts on "Occupy Ideas"

Robert Eshman’s positive reception of the wealth creators at the Milken Global Conference is a sign that the mainstream media has seen the light: free markets make free people. The Occupy Movements of yesteryear were filled with angry people taking up space and...

Kafkaesque Public Schools: South Gate

For the past seven — almost eight years, I have tried to make the most of public education. I kept pressing on, like a true believer. I even wrote a celebrated piece for my local paper about the incredible improvements at a local high school. Really, I...

My Spiritual Debt to the Austrian Economists

When I think about the ways of faith, I used to believe that I have to see something come about before it happens. The Austrian economists, including their forerunner Adam Smith and their chief spokesman and philosopher Friedrich Hayek, taught me the importance of...

Kafkaesque Public Schools: "You Have Issues!"

Some kids will never let go of a grudge. They have bad parents, perhaps, or no parents at all. For some kids, the only attention they ever get is from a cop or a probation officer.  Trouble is the only way they can tap into  some caring. I have lost my...