With campuses emptying and traditional colleges and universities under pressure, online ed technocrats are seizing the means of education. By Steven F. McGuire.
Christine Flowers: Lessons on religious persecution for today’s Covid-19 church shutdowns
As a nation that celebrates religious freedom, how will we cope with the new limitations on public worship? By Christine Flowers
Albert Eisenberg: BOMBSHELL — Corona cashout for city workers as regular Philadelphians flail
As regular Philadelphians face down the impossible decisions that come with a societal freefall, why are some city employees getting paid time-and-a-half to work from home — on the taxpayer’s dime?
Jennifer Stefano: With classes canceled for weeks, schools must embrace innovation — and choice
Amid this unprecedented crisis, it is time to find innovations in Philadelphia for students — and stop empowering the bureaucracies that are holding children back. By Jennifer Stefano
Earl Baker: Pennsylvania’s Energy Future is Unfolding Just Outside My Front Door, and It’s Exciting
An exciting energy revolution is happening right in our backyards, writes former State Senator and Chester County Commissioner Earl Baker.
George Parry: Apocalypse Meow
Why are the media affording Coronavirus “end-of-the-world-we’re-all-gonna-die!” coverage when apparently more deadly annual influenzas have rated far less hysterical treatment? By George Parry
From The Editors: Reflecting on the task at hand
For most of us, the events of the last two weeks are unlike anything we have experienced in our lifetime.
By The Editors
Logan Chipkin: Philadelphia Urban League Leads the Way in an Era of Big Government
As free market advocates, it is incumbent upon us to answer the skeptic who thinks that poor people will starve in the streets absent the State. The Urban League of Philadelphia is one such answer, right in our own backyard.
Chris Tremoglie: America’s Forgotten WWII Internment Camps
While many know of the internment of the Japanese during WWII, the plight of interned people of German and Italian descent – people from countries that, unlike Japan, did not attack us on U.S. soil before the war – is often ignored.
Howard Lurie: Good luck paying off the national debt
Now here is the really scary part. In 2019 the federal government spent over $30,000 more per second then it took in by way of taxes. And the figures for fiscal 2020 are projected to be the same.