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Viewpoint Laws: When Balance Becomes State Preference
Laws that command balance in classrooms do not rescue neutrality—they legislate a preferred perspective. This essay dissects viewpoint-based schooling statutes and shows why they collide with free-expression norms.
The Anti-Woke Playbook: How Florida and Hungary Are Redesigning Democracy's Distance
From Florida's classrooms to Hungary's parliament halls, the 'anti-woke' movement reveals itself as more than culture war—it's a systematic attempt to redesign the distance between citizen and state, neighbor and neighbor, in ways that fundamentally alter democratic participation across the.
The Textbook Wars
Texas HB 900 was struck down, but the machinery it set in motion—vendor pre-screening, procurement pressure, and quiet book removal—did not stop. This essay maps how procurement has become a side door for censorship and offers a counter-architecture to defend pedagogical choice.
Administrative Censorship: How Chilling Effects Spread
Censorship today arrives not in jackboots but in memos, forms, and pauses 'pending review.' This essay maps how administrative routines—procurement rules, complaint pathways, ambiguous guidance—convert discomfort into policy and policy into habit.