Zoning has been used by local communities to open up possibilities for some and shut them down for others; to beautify some spaces or change their character not for the better and to recognize current realities or live in the past. Once we recognize the power of zoning, we can harness it to create walkable …
But isn’t that unconstitutional? That was the basis of my line of inquiry on this podcast with esteemed professor, Ira Lupu, George Washington Law Professor Emeritus and a nationally recognized scholar in constitutional law with an emphasis on the religion clauses of the 1st Amendment. Legal or not, Oklahoma’s superintendent of schools, Ryan Walters, has …
Since Hamas’s attack on Israel last October 7,2023 the term “settler colonialism” has become central to public debate about Israel and the Palestinians, particularly in academic circles and among young people. And while the concept may be new to most Americans, settler colonialism is shaping the way many people think about the history of the …
Benjamin’s Franklin’s contributions to his times, and our country, are too numerous to restate. His greatest gift, however, may have been his philosophical approach to living a ‘useful’ life right until the very end. And while the self-help movement of our day has its own exemplars, going back and revisiting his 13 virtues and …
Our guest, Peter Schwartzstein, is a journalist on the climate security beat. He’s immersed himself in some of the hot spots of the world, like Syria, for years during its civil war to unpack the story of how global warming is adding to, if not a key precipitant of, conflicts in many parts of the …
How polarized are we, really? While the extremes in both ideological camps may be smaller in numbers than mainstream opinions their effect on our political dialogue and the conveyor belt of lies and distortions on social media amplify and accelerate those differences. Thus, it feels like we are in a pitched battle for the soul …
Longtime Defense researcher Luis Elizondo has become associated with reporting on the existence of UFOs(unidentified flying objects), now known as unidentified anomalous phenomena(UAPs). He made headlines in 2017 when he resigned as a senior intelligence official running a Pentagon program investigating these objects in the sky and alerted the public to the fact that the …
What kind of question is that, you may ask? We’ve always had grades. How would we evaluate performance without them? Is this just another ‘woke’ idea, like participation trophies for playing the game? How will they learn to compete in this dog eat dog world awaiting our students? Joshua Eyler, director of the Center for …
While the rankings for U.S. News & World Report seem to get most of the attention, perhaps there’s another lens we should put on the ranking process. Paul Glastris, editor-in-chief of Washington Monthly, once worked there and sensed that there is a better scoring system to reflect the needs of more students across the country, …
Listening to this podcast, you can discern that I am not a fan of Donald Trump. His approach to ethics, decency, business practices and bruising politics is an anathema to me. So, to the extent that I can keep up with his subterfuge, I attempt to do so. I’ll admit that it is a …