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Girls’ wrestling is fastest-growing sport

When Ben Fallon was growing up in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, all he ever wanted to do was play football. Fallon was in fourth grade, and in Western Pennsylvania, pretty much every boy wants to play football. However, his parents had some strong feelings about that sport. Wrestling was a sport in which he competed during middle school, high school and college. It was a passion for the sport he never really lost because, as he says, it shaped his character and his adult life. When he and his wife, Corrine, got married and started having children, Fallon always believed he might ...

Won’t somebody please think of the children?

After stripping its citizens of the right to self-defense, locking down millions under COVID-19 totalitarianism and treating freedom of speech like a roadblock to socialist utopia, Australia has decided to take its already well-established love of government overreach and crank it up another notch. Starting this week, the Australian government will enforce a total ban on social media for everyone under the age of 16, with platforms that fail to comply facing tens of millions of dollars in fines. Predictably, the pundit class and advocacy groups applauded the government with the usual ...

Trump is right on gas-powered cars

President Trump likes to tout his accomplishments, and saving the gas-powered car should be high on the list. The president is ending a government campaign against the internal combustion engine, one of the defining mechanisms of our age. This uneconomical push for electric vehicles over gas-powered ones ignored consumer preferences and relied on high-handed executive overreach. The New York Times said Trump has thrown “the weight of the federal government behind vehicles that burn gasoline,” although all he’s really done is lift the federal thumb from the scale in favor of ...

Adulthood does not remove fear

For most of my life, I believed bravery belonged to people who felt certain. Heroes in stories seemed steady. Leaders seemed equipped. Even the adults of my childhood seemed to wake each morning with confidence about who they were and what they were doing. I assumed that once I grew up, that clarity would arrive for me, too. What arrived instead was the realization that every grown person is improvising. Every leader is managing more than anyone sees. Every parent is hoping they guessed right. Life reveals that bravery is not a posture built from certainty. It is an act built on fear ...

We are at crossroads with grading

The recent Harvard report on grading practices has drawn a lot of attention from colleges and universities across the country, particularly for its claim that grade inflation remains a critical issue. The rising number of A grades assigned to students has prompted calls to return to traditional in-person exams and other lecture components, such as calling on students. However, much of the public perception regarding Harvard students’ large proportion of A’s, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Beth McMurtrie, is “unsympathetic, painting Harvard as a college full of ...

Climate change reaching its demise

For years, climate alarmism has reigned as political catechism: The planet is burning, and only drastic action — deindustrialization, draconian regulation, even ceasing childbearing — could forestall certain apocalypse. Now, at least some signs are emerging that both the broader public and leading liberal voices may be recoiling from the doom and gloom. First, recent polling shows that the intensity of climate dread is weakening. According to a July 2025 report from the Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, while a majority (69%) of Americans still say global warming is ...