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Gary North
Written by Gary North on January 9, 2016
“Well, that’s the news from Lake Wobegon, where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all the children are above average.” — Garrison Keillor To understand why the welfare state will continue to expand its operations until such time as the Great Default ends it, we must understand Lake Wobegon […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on December 19, 2015
Back in 1971, I was interviewed for a teaching position at an obscure Michigan college, one which was officially Christian but which survived only because of the state scholarship program that funneled several hundred nonsectarian, often secular students onto the campus. I had sent the dean my vita, and he hastened to tell me that […]
Continue reading →Posted on December 5, 2015
Joe Sobran was my favorite columnist before he died in 2010. He offered more good sense per paragraph than anyone else. In 1993, William F. Buckley publicly fired Sobran from National Review. I had known for three decades that Buckley was the liberal establishment’s token conservative intellectual. That act confirmed it. He had also become […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 21, 2015
The Ron Paul Curriculum has an affiliate program. For every subscriber at $250 a year who signs up using your link, you get $125 . . . until the family quits subscribing. A family may subscribe for 15 years, K-12, for all family members. An affiliate would bring in $1,875. Did you know that some […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 21, 2015
If a book was published in the United States before 1923, it is in the public domain. You can use it to create high-value products. Here is an example. Years ago, I told my friend Byron Reese about Ray’s Arithmetic. Joseph Ray was a 19th-century educator. His book on arithmetic was published before the first […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 21, 2015
I teach four years of literature courses for the high school program of the Ron Paul Curriculum. I also teach six weeks of literature for the eighth grade. For these lessons, I analyze two novels: Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward: 2000–1887 (1888) and Charles Sheldon’s In His Steps (1896). Bellamy’s book is occasionally assigned to college […]
Continue reading →Posted on November 21, 2015
In the fall of the year, as leaves turned red and gold on the campus of U.PE., an aging professor stood on the podium to give the welcoming address to the new class of freshmen. His hair was white, his mien one of resignation and cynicism. He looked as though he would rather be almost […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 14, 2015
Jeff Deist of the Mises Institute wrote an article with this title: “Four ways to Build a Free Society.” I like the idea of building. It is positive. His four ways: the political option (minimal involvement), strategic withdrawal (non-participation/separation), hearts and minds (education/social media), and resistance (gumming up the government). So, it’s a mixture of […]
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on November 14, 2015
This is amusing because it’s close to the truth. You can send your child to college for (say) $75,000 after taxes, or you can have him earn his accredited degree by CLEP exams and distance learning for under $15,000 per bachelor’s degree. Any student can pay for this by working part-time. Take your pick.
Continue reading →Written by Gary North on October 31, 2015
Formal classroom education has been substituted for apprenticeship programs for at least a century. Decade by decade, the state gains greater control over the minds of students by requiring long hours of classroom instruction. This instruction is compulsory. In most states, the school has to grant a license to any student who works after school. […]
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