Source Archives: John Locke Foundation

  • Teachers ready to ignore legal prohibition on striking

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  • CDC: Drive alone

    Antiplanner drops this piece of news: For more than a month, transit agencies have been telling people not to ride transit unless they are “essential workers.” Now those same agencies are outraged that the Centers for Disease Control (...

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  • Martin Center column explores saving the humanities

    Grattan Brown writes for the Martin Center about taking steps to save the humanities in higher education. For more than two decades, professors have been “flipping” classrooms to move course material online and use classroom time for student-centered ...

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  • Growing distrust of public health experts explored

    David Wallace-Wells argues in New York Magazine that people have lost trust in public health experts because those experts don’t trust people. Almost as soon as the first marches to protest the killing of George Floyd began, in ...

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  • COVID-19 Hospitalizations Are Much Lower Than Anticipated

    Coronavirus hospitalizations have again been making headlines across North Carolina. As JLF’s Jon Sanders writes in his recent research brief: Last week, as North Carolina set a now-eclipsed record for COVID-19 hospitalizations, N.C. Secretary of Health and ...

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  • A plea to open schools

    Naomi Schaefer Riley explains for City Journal why the benefits of reopening schools compensate for potential health risks. Then there is the physical toll that staying at home will continue to have on students. Heavy use of screens has long ...

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  • A call to defund college rather than cops

    Peter Wood writes for the Spectator USA about a better target than police for “defunding.” ‘Defund the police!’ That’s the spray-painted, placarded, pixeled demand of the moment. The American left, from Black Lives Matterers ...

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  • Panning the Supreme Court’s Second Amendment silence

    Amy Swearer writes for the Daily Signal about the U.S. Supreme Court’s disappointing disinterest in important Second Amendment cases. When the Supreme Court earlier this spring dismissed a New York gun case from its docket without ruling ...

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  • Different definitions of ‘defund the police’

    Matthew Continetti writes for Commentary about the debate over the real meaning of “defund the police.” The terseness of the demand is shocking. It is also perplexing. When I typed “Defund the Police” into Google the ...

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  • Slavery didn’t end on June 19, 1865.

    It continued in much of the world throughout the 19th century and into the 20th, and it continues in sone places today:   H/T: Nicholas A. Christakis

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