Merit & Excellence

New York City's new mayor is moving to eliminate gifted programs starting in kindergarten while the city's top private schools break the $75,000 tuition barrier—creating a luxury escape hatch that only wealthy families can afford. Meanwhile, NYC kindergarten enrollment has already collapsed 15% since 2019, with parents citing "lack of rigor" as their top reason for leaving public schools. This is the same playbook that destroyed San Francisco's school system, and it's happening right now to hundreds of thousands of working-class kids who can't write a $75,000 check.

State Politicians Budgets & Fiscal Policy

The $593 Billion Pension Scheme Crushing SFUSD

February 11, 2026 · 4 min read

Teachers and parents have a common enemy—and it isn't each other. It's a pension system running a 20-year scam.

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Merit & Excellence

The $75,000 Escape Hatch Rich Parents Will Use

February 10, 2026 · 4 min read

Mamdani's plan to kill gifted programs will crush working-class kids while wealthy families shrug and write tuition checks.

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Merit & Excellence

Boil the Ocean

February 07, 2026 · 4 min read

Artificial Superintelligence means it is time to stop playing it safe and raise our ambitions

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State Capacity & Accountability Merit & Excellence

Airbnb's Cofounder Is Redesigning America

February 06, 2026 · 3 min read

Joe Gebbia went from selling cereal to fund a startup to becoming the nation's first Chief Design Officer. Now he's fixing government.

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SF Politicians State Capacity & Accountability

SFUSD's "Equity" Lottery Backfired Spectacularly

February 04, 2026 · 4 min read

A policy failure wrapped in virtue signaling: more segregation, 4,000 students gone, a bankrupt district—and it all started with anti-Chinese racism.

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State Capacity & Accountability Merit & Excellence

We Used to Build Things. What Happened?

February 04, 2026 · 8 min read

From the Panama Canal to parklet regulations—why it’s time for Americans to reclaim technology, growth, and the abundance that once defined it.

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Media & Narrative State Capacity & Accountability

Stanford's Fake Disability Crisis Is America's Future

February 03, 2026 · 4 min read

When 38% of students at America's most elite university claim disability status, the system isn't broken—it's working exactly as designed.

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Media & Narrative Skilled Immigration

The New War on Asian American Excellence

February 03, 2026 · 7 min read

Helen Andrews says Asian Americans are ruining education with 'grind culture.' The data says she's lying.

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