Healing the wounds of 9/11, the surge in home – Latest News
Bloomberg: Healing the Wounds of 9/11
The 9/11 “terrorists targeted New York City because it has long been a symbol of the freedoms they hated,” observes Michael R. Bloomberg at USA Today — and “New York a quarter century later” exhibits “how profoundly they failed.” From the begin, City Hall “believed that Lower Manhattan’s recovery depended not on rebuilding what had been lost,” however on creating one thing completely new: “a 24/7 community.” Today’s rebuilt Lower Manhattan is “a place where people of all backgrounds and beliefs live, work,” and join, “exercising the freedoms the terrorists could not destroy.” Lower Manhattan “stands as a testament to the strength and resilience” of each the metropolis’s spirit and our nation’s character.
Eye on schooling: The Surge in Home Schooling
“Homeschooling, microschools, and other alternatives to school-based programs” have been “booming” long earlier than the “historic growth” that “publicly funded school choice is experiencing,” notes Ray Domanico at City Journal. “Parents choosing these options” have “lost faith in the traditional school model” and “rejected the concept of a self-contained school,” preferring to “customize education to their children’s individual needs.” This “allows parents to match the pace of learning to their child’s abilities.” The “confluence” of faculty selection, AI and work-from-home insurance policies “is irreversibly changing the relationship between families and schools,” as “parents now have the tools to design an educational program that suits their children.” The historic, “standardized program of traditional schools and districts is losing its grip on American families.”
Democrats: Young Voters’ Socialist Confusion
Young college-educated voters “dance and cheer” for socialism, however “quickly sour on it” when confronted with the specifics, notice Mark Penn & Andrew Stein in The Wall Street Journal. A latest Harvard Caps/Harris ballot finds that “77% of registered voters under 25 believe their paycheck should be based on the ‘merit and value of their work,’” 70% “want to own their own businesses” and 68% need to be householders. Yet the socialists these youthful of us champion need “a guaranteed federal job paying a ‘living wage’ to anyone who wants one,” in addition to to open city-run companies and in addition view personal property “as a collective good” — how ironic. US establishments have by some means produced a era “that succumbs easily to the social-media sirens championing socialism” when their true wishes are “the same old elements of the American Dream their parents wanted.”
From the proper: The Truth About Mohammed Atta
Mohammed Atta’s will “is among the most neglected pieces of evidence from Sept. 11,” argues Ayaan Hirsi Ali at Tablet. Written years earlier than 9/11, “it contradicts the explanations of the attack that most Western commentators preferred.” Atta was “living comfortably” in fashionable Germany; he was not poor or “radicalized” by “American support for Israel.” No: He had a “militant commitment to Islam that he was ready to die for.” “The idea that there are barbarians who live outside the gates has long been part of the Western inheritance.” If the West can’t act accordingly, the final 25 years will function “evidence that a civilization can know its enemies, kill their foot soldiers, send mighty armies halfway around the world, and still fail to save itself.”
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Historian: Trump’s Record as Midterms Near
President Trump “asked voters to make” the midterms “a referendum on him,” observes Conrad Black on X, and “look at his record”: The immigration disaster has “ended,” lowering human and drug trafficking. “Inflation has been cut sharply.” Crime is “much lower.” Capital has “poured into the US,” creating jobs and spurring growth. “Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and Iran have all been stripped of their usefulness as Russo-Chinese allies.” “The Iranian regime is being strangled” at “almost no cost in American lives.” “Ukraine has been armed to the point that Russia is fighting a war it looks increasingly unable to win.” Trump’s chief downside is messaging; if he’s simply “keeping his powder dry” on that rating, “this is the month to use it.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board
