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n mid-February 2023, administrators at an elementary school in Springfield, Ohio, called the police to intervene in a racially charged incident on the playground. According to the police report, a group of black students forced several white students to say “black lives matter” against their will. Around the same time in Orlando, Florida, a teacher at Howard Middle School created and posted to his personal social media account a demeaning skit using students from his classroom. In it, white students bowed to their black classmates, feeding them snacks and fanning them. The teacher, now on administrative leave, captioned the video:...

After weeks of deliberation and a yearlong effort by students and alumni of the district to address concerns related to equity and inclusion, the Elmbrook School Board decided June 8 to leave the proposed equity principles out of its upcoming strategy plan. Discussions related to equity work within the school district will continue during the 2021-2022 school year. The equity principles, which were drafted by the district's equity non-negotiable workgroup, said the district is "committed to equity" and is looking to eliminate opportunity gaps for all students. They also discuss removing barriers to teaching and learning and touch on recruiting...

How is it possible to debate Critical Race Theory yet fail to mention its salient characteristic—that it is exclusively and ethnocidally anti-white? One Federalist piece, "Critical Race Theory Is A Classic Communist Divide-And-Conquer Tactic," brings it back to communism. Quite how this adds up is unclear, but the author decries a way of thinking that exploits the amorphous "tragedy of racial divisions in America." In essence, some bad people with a communistic manual and mindset aren't interested in healing us. Really? Did Communism, an equal-opportunity oppressor, revolve around the exclusive blackening of whites? Western democracies are third way political and economic systems. They are already...