If you want to fight (racist) "anti-racist" ideas, and the even worse pedagogy and classroom practices resulting from them in your school district, you first need to understand the jargon they're using to make their ideas sound benign (or even helpful). Tune in to this collaborative conversation to get help!

Stephen Kent in lessons from Star Wars on emergency powers and government

Stephen Kent thinks left-leaning pileups and hashtags like #FireGinaCarano are partially responsible for escalating tensions: “These newest tweets, expressing doubt and resentment about COVID and masks and the election, there’s nothing new here.” But, Kent added, “Gina Carano’s not making things better for conservative fans who want to feel welcome when they go to fan conventions and mingle with their fellow lovers of Star Wars. She’s not making things easier for anybody. She’s making things just dramatically more dubious and sad and divisive.”

We need to talk about our history, its contradictions, aspirations, and consequences, all of it. Hamilton opens the door for intergenerational discussion that dignifying, shrieking millennials vandalizing statues simply do not.

Stephen Kent on Stu Does America May 2020

I watch a lot of cable news for my day job. As a result, I’ve seen a great deal of the rapid change on television since COVID-19 took hold of American life around March 11, 2020. I wrote for the Washington Examiner about what we may see happen with cable news

If the shooters were all racists, well, we can address racism. If shooters were driven by homophobia, there are ways to ameliorate that. But we all know and come across individuals who are just not right — like the Joker — and what are you supposed to do?