On the Common Core
Less Twilight, more Tocqueville.
Education
Gut Checks: They’re What’s Missing in Childhood Education
Jace Yarbrough: After growing up under the 20th century nanny state, at least half of us need a good punch…
The Merits of a National Object
Zachary Crippen: Manned space isn’t on the agenda, nation-building has lost its appeal, and huge government programs are hardly conservative….
Symposium: The State of White America (Part 4)
If Murray is right about the problem, then the solution demands something from every one of us. Miriel Thomas ReneauMiriel…
Symposium: The State of White America (Part 3)
From an average Joe (score: 61), apparently “having it your way” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Jace YarbroughJace…
Symposium: The State of White America (Part 2)
“Coming Apart” demands a thoroughly Christian response, one likely lined with more uncomfortable “how now shall we live” questions than…
Symposium: The State of White America (Part 1)
Can the American project continue when Americans stop behaving like themselves? Charles Murray doesn’t think so. Connor EwingA member of…
Book Review (and Profligate Excerpting): Gaudy Night
In case you didn’t know already, Dorothy Sayers was brilliant. A theologian and Christian humanist in the era of the…
Facts and Values at the Texas Board of Education
Edward Kennedy or Billy Graham? Margaret Sanger or Phyllis Schlafly? Who is more important? In the war over education content,…
Education and “The Dead Hands of the Past”
Something interesting I read today, in “Between Past and Future” by Hannah Arendt: “The testament, telling the heir what will…