Post Tagged 'liberal bias'

March 05, 2025

Jonathan Rauch Is at Cross Purposes with Himself

An old joke: A man walks into a psychiatrist’s office and says, “Doctor, my brother is crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken.” The doctor ponders this and suggests that the man bring his brother in to be treated. Continue Reading...

July 11, 2017

Would school choice help conservatives recover from the ‘cultural massacre’?

The Spectator Australia published an article Monday claiming that the “culture war” between conservative and liberal values is, in reality, a “cultural massacre.” The carnage is evident in the numbers, specifically in education: in the United Kingdom, conservatives make up only seven percent of primary school teachers and only eight percent of secondary school teachers. Continue Reading...

November 06, 2015

There’s A Promising Market For Conservative News

Yesterday at The Federalist, I examined the claims of Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz during last week’s GOP primary debate that the “mainstream media” is dominated by “liberal bias.” Continue Reading...

June 05, 2014

Left Wing Bias in Schools Requires More than a Band-Aid

Taxpayer subsidized textbooks tend to tilt left, often aggressively so. Mary Grabar notes that this is especially obvious with composition textbooks: Freshman composition class at many colleges is propaganda time, with textbooks conferring early sainthood on President Obama and lavishing attention on writers of the far left—Howard Zinn, Christopher Hedges, Peter Singer and Barbara Ehrenreich, for instance–but rarely on moderates, let alone anyone right of center. Continue Reading...

April 15, 2013

Did Gosnell Strip 7 of the Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness?

The Kermit Gosnell trial is about a form of live-birth murder known as infanticide, a crime that the overwhelming majority of Americans rightly oppose. And that is what the case is about: Well formed babies that Dr. Continue Reading...