Ray Nothstine
Senior Writer and Editor at State Policy Network
Senior editor & writer @American_Habits. Family, history, theology, & roots music. Ole Miss & Asbury Seminary alum. Rather tough for a bookworm.
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1 week ago |
americanhabits.org | Ray Nothstine
A new publication from Iowans for Tax Relief (ITR), Federalism: A Cornerstone of American Government, offers a timely reminder of the foundational role that federalism plays in our republic. I’ve been able to get to know John Hendrickson at ITR some given our mutual love of American history and close philosophical alignment.
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1 week ago |
americanhabits.org | Ray Nothstine
In his essay “The Great Relearning,” Tom Wolfe pointed out that when the counterculture of the 1960s tossed aside the hard-earned wisdom of Western civilization—such as hygiene and moral norms—they didn’t leap forward into some Utopia. They ended up relearning, the hard way, why those old rules existed in the first place. Today, a similar kind of relearning is underway in American education.
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1 week ago |
americanhabits.org | Neal McCluskey |Ray Nothstine
President Donald Trump has targeted the US Department of Education for elimination with a new executive order, and he is right to do so. The department should never have been created. There has never been a need for it, and constitutionally, education is reserved to the people and states. As it should be: Education is about nothing less than the formation of millions of unique individuals, and control should be as close to each one as possible, not lodged in some distant bureaucracy.
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1 week ago |
americanhabits.org | Ray Nothstine
For decades, conservatives and limited-government advocates have sought to abolish the U.S. Department of Education, viewing it as the perfect model for federal overreach. President Trump has made the long sought after ambition more reality than political fantasy with his Executive Order, and Congress should assist in fulfilling that mission.
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1 week ago |
americanhabits.org | Ray Nothstine
Below is the text of a lecture I delivered lecture delivered at Thales College in Wake Forest, North Carolina in March at the “Liberty & Literacy Forum,” a conference on educational freedom. I cover a lot of ground when it comes to federal involvement in education and focus on the historical, philosophical, and constitutional arguments against.
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