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In an article originally published in RealClearInvestigations, former News & Observer reporter John Murawski writes, Like growing numbers of public high school students across the country, many California kids are receiving classroom instruction in how race, class, gender, sexuality, and citizenship status are tools of oppression, power, and privilege. They…

Government intervention in the economy has failed time and again, yet the Left persists with its narrative. JLF Senior Fellow Garland Tucker takes apart the key fables, including the persistent idea that the 1920s were catastrophic. As for the supposed “chaos” of the 1920s, America actually experienced…

It’s always a fun evening when you can host two former presidents — Thomas Jefferson and John Adams. We had a great time at the North Carolina Museum of History. Here’s what you missed, as reported by our friends and co-hosts at the Spring Hope Enterprise. (photo courtesy of…

Join us for our Living History event featuring — direct from Colonial Williamsburg — Thomas Jefferson and John Adams discussing the issue of their day — and our day. Tickets here.

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Mitch Kokai, John Locke Foundation senior political analyst, discusses the toppling of a Confederate statue on government-owned property in Durham. Kokai offered these comments during an Aug. 15, 2017, appearance on Spectrum News’ “Capital Tonight.”…

Carolina Journal recently reported on the actions of the New Hanover School Board regarding the new AP US History Framework.  On the same day, Stanley Kurtz wrote, How the College Board Politicized U. S. History, in National Review.  While the issues regarding the new 98-page AP US History…

Yesterday, Reuters ran a really dumb story, “Gingrich’s nods to history don’t impress scholars.” I am not an apologist for Newt, and do not take this as an endorsement.  Rather, I object to a story designed to assail Gingrich’s intellect generally, rather than address his policy proposals and…