School choice is inevitable, pushing humanities far left and other commentary

Education beat: School Choice Is Inevitable

Endless lawfare is “the scorched-earth strategy animating opponents of the school-choice revolution sweeping the country,” thunders The Wall Street Journal’s Kimberly A. Strassel.

“The biggest government reform story in recent years has been the explosive growth of school choice,” which the new Trump “tax-credit scholarship program will further fuel.”

Teachers unions face “declining membership” and loss of “their cast-iron control over the Democratic Party.”

“Even California, New York and Illinois are debating whether to give their parents access to choice dollars” — “a nod to the danger of giving the GOP a wedge issue.”

Hence, the unions’ “use of lawfare” in a bid “to impose via judicial decree what they can’t win” politically.

“School choice is out of the bottle” and growing, and union efforts to “stand athwart” it is “stoking public discontent.”

Campus watch: Pushing Humanities Far Left

“No single entity, including the federal government,” observes The Atlantic’s Tyler Austin Harper, “has a more profound influence” on the “fiscal health and cultural output of the humanities” than the massively endowed Mellon Foundation, which “has the power to remake entire fields.”

And Mellon’s leadership now “seems to find value in arts and letters only insofar as they advance approved, left-leaning causes”; it “has disbursed enormous sums of money to hyper-liberal academic initiatives.”

Support for the “scholar activist” model of “humanities education” may well “remake liberal-arts education entirely” toward a “social-justice-ified vision of American arts and letters, instead of the proper focus on the “‘permanent problems’ that have troubled human beings from time immemorial.”

Sociologist: Marrying Young = Best Bet for Happiness

The “pursuit of early marriage is supported by a growing chorus of voices on the right,” including the late Charlie Kirk, who gave “voice to the case for young marriage more prominently and insistently” than anyone else, observes notes Brad Wilcox at Compact.

Yes! “The path to living a meaningful and fulfilling life” is far more likely “to run through marriage and family than it is through money and work.”

It “flies in the face of conventional wisdom,” but polls show that “the happiest young women today are not footloose and fancy free, they are married moms.”

Similarly, “young married men” with children “are almost three times as likely” to be “very happy” compared to single friends.

Marrying young “maximizes your odds of forging a meaningful life as a young adult.”

Space race: Will Bezos Beat Musk to Moon?

“If America has any chance of beating China, it now seems inevitable that the next American human landing on the Moon will not be by [Elon] Musk’s Starship but using a craft being developed by his rival Jeff Bezos,” reports David Whitehouse at The Spectator.

Musk just switched SpaceX’s top priority from Mars to Luna, but: “Since 2023 Starship has launched 11 times on development missions,” and “five have been failures.”

Meanwhile, “Bezos’ company is now designing Blue Moon Lander 1.5 and insiders expect” NASA to give it “the first landing.”

Yet “the Blue Moon lander also has its problems,” and “Musk is adamant that success is in sight.”

Tech journal: How AI Boosts Health Care

“With Americans frustrated by the cost and complexity of the healthcare system, it’s no surprise that AI firms see healthcare as a big opportunity,” explains The Free Press’ Maya Sulkin.

Start-ups are “building AI systems that read lab results,” “generate diagnoses, and offer treatment recommendations.”

“It turns out that AI is really good at pattern recognition,” enabling it, e.g., to “outperform” radiologists by spotting “tumors they miss.”

A 2025 study “found that ChatGPT asked more comprehensive follow-up questions” and “methodically worked through possible explanations before settling on an answer.”

Sulkin’s not “ready to choose artificial intelligence over a trained human being,” but thinks “offloading the most tedious and failure-prone parts of care could be an enormous relief, not just for doctors but for entire health systems buckling under demand.”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board