The Fog Is Lifting

Something important is happening.

It’s been happening in small ways for a while now—mainstream news ratings plummeting, people waking up to the manipulations of social media, trust in institutions collapsing—but now, it feels bigger. 

A real, tangible shift.

Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and owner of The Washington Post, just announced that his paper’s opinion pages will now be dedicated to defending two principles: personal liberties and free markets.

Whoa.

One of the wealthiest and most influential men in the world just acknowledged what we’ve known all along—that these values are not just good but ethical, that they minimize coercion and maximize prosperity. 

And, he’s admitted that these viewpoints have been underserved. (Which of course is a diplomatic way of saying they’ve been intentionally suppressed by the media gatekeepers who have shaped public discourse for decades.)

This statement is not coming from a right-wing think tank. 

It’s not from a libertarian newsletter or a free-market advocacy group. 

It’s from the man who owns The Washington Post, a paper that, until now, has been synonymous with the very ideology that has sought to erode these principles.

So, what changed?

It’s certainly possible that Bezos is just seeing the writing on the wall. Maybe he knows that if his paper continues its current trajectory, it’ll be left behind as the world moves forward. Maybe he’s realized that the only way to maintain credibility is to acknowledge reality.

Or maybe he, like so many others, is waking up.

We’ve seen it again and again the last couple of months. 

Stories we were told were conspiracies turn out to be true. Political movements we were told were grassroots turn out to be astroturfed. Economic policies we were told were inevitable are proven to be unsustainable.

And with the continuing DOGE findings, it’s becoming clearer by the day that much of the so-called support for leftist ideology wasn’t organic—it was fabricated. A carefully curated pseudo-reality built on fraud and loopholes, and designed to create the illusion that a majority of people believed in things they didn’t.

But illusions don’t last forever, and people are remembering what they once knew but were pressured to forget. 

They’re remembering that freedom works. That free markets build prosperity, and that government coercion isn’t just impractical—it’s immoral.

Jeff Bezos may be late to the party, but we welcome him nonetheless.

I’ll be watching The Washington Post closely. If they follow through on this shift, if they truly begin defending personal liberty and free markets, it will be one of the most significant course corrections in modern journalism.

And if The Washington Post can change, what else can?

These are the kinds of stories we’ll discuss on our podcast when we relaunch next week. 

The Way the World Works is the perfect way for families to learn about what’s happening in the world, and why. It sparks conversations with your kids that will deepen family bonds, and forge communication pathways that will last a lifetime. 

Because the families that learn together, thrive together!

We teach the principles that we do in our books and curricula because we know they are true.

We know they are good. We know they lead to human flourishing.

The world is waking up. It’s an exciting time to be a parent! Are your kids ready for the conversations ahead?

Let us help!

—Connor