Allysia Finley

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with The Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues on the WSJ's opinion pages, columnists Alicia Finley and Joe Sternberg.

Politicians and observers on both sides of the aisle are calling it one of the most important items on the November ballot.

That's California's Proposition 40, a purported one-time five percent tax on assets of residents over one billion dollars.

But...

Let's, if we can, get into, real quickly, a couple of other points, and that is my commentary today is declining student scores, but I thought I'd set it up by talking about the one that my commentary yesterday addressed, and that is Alicia Finley.

documents what we've been talking about on this program for some time, and that is the title of her Wall Street Journal column is, Yes, Children Really Are Getting Dumber.

Now, in the past, we've talked about how, as we just mentioned a few minutes ago with Ken Heckenlively, about the pandemic and the shutdown, and he's written quite a few books on that subject as well, and certainly that has had a negative impact on students.

But I think Alicia Finley in her article that was in the Wall Street Journal helped me understand that that couldn't be all of the reason.

Because you do have in other countries, Sweden comes to mind, places which were mostly open during the pandemic and scores fell there as well.

So there could be some other factors.

This is Viewpoints with Kirby Anderson.

Alicia Finley documents something I've been talking about for two decades.

The title of her Wall Street Journal column says it all.

Yes, children really are getting dumber.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with The Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues on the WSJ's opinion pages, columnists Kim Strassel and Alicia Finley.

With less than a month to go before November 3rd, debate season has begun.

Today, let's focus on four big debates this week in three states, a toss-up Senate races in Michigan, Iowa, and Maine, where Susan Collins and Troy Jackson tangled on Tuesday and then again on Thursday.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with The Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleagues on the WSJ's opinion pages, editorial board member Kate O'Dell and columnist Alicia Finley.

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has been on the job for about 20 months now and made news Wednesday in Quantico addressing his and President Trump's priorities for the Pentagon.

Let's listen to a piece of what he said.

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with The Wall Street Journal.

We're joined today by my colleague on the WSJ's opinion pages, columnist Alicia Finley.

Supreme Court doesn't always start its annual term with a bang, but this year it sure is.

When the justices officially return from summer recess and gavel in the court at 10 a.m. on Monday, the first case on the docket is Suncor Energy v. Boulder County.

And for these colleges and universities that have all of this crap in their budgets, it's going to have to be slashed.

There's an interesting column that appeared, I think it was today on the Wall Street Journal by Alicia Finley on exactly this.

And in particular, she focuses on useless doctorates.

It's bad enough that we have all these kids that are duped into getting majors in women's studies or this study or gender studies and all of this.

Harvard has slashed admissions of new doctoral students in various social science programs as it evaluates, quote, the future model of PhD education.

Many college graduates pursue doctorates to escape the real world.

I want to give Alicia Finley credit.

She is right on this.

Let's see what they have to say.

This is from the Wall Street Journal written by Alicia Finley.

And it says, listening to my seven-year-old nephew sounding out words last week, a dark thought occurred.

That's not good.