In National Review, Stanley Kurtz looks at a Utah State Legislature bill – S.B. 226 – that aims to restore a mandatory “Great Books” curriculum to university education, covering Western history from Homer to the Holocaust, and provide the legislative muscle needed to organize and fund the required faculty. Woke/DEI-oriented “studies” courses and radical faculty, it is hoped, will wither proportionately. Kurtz optimistically suggests this approach could be extended to universities across the U.S.
Javier Milei Makes Fools of the “Experts”
As it began looking like Javier Milei might actually be elected President of Argentina, more than 100 leading international economists warned that this “far-right” political “wrecking ball” would “cause ‘devastation,’ spike inflation, expand poverty, and unemployment.” But as David Harsanyi relates in the Washington Examiner, Milei has tamed inflation, balanced the budget, shrunk the bureaucracy, deregulated the economy, driven down poverty and repaid billions in U.S. loans. And now, Harsanyi notes, Argentina is starting to boom.
