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  • What is Socialism?

    What is Socialism?0

    So, there’s a video making the social media rounds with a CNN reporter supposedly asking Bernie Sanders supporters to define socialism. Here it is:      Based on a lot of what we’ve seen in articles and online comments, the reporter probably revealed quite a bit of truth about what young Americans actually understand about

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  • What is segregation?

    What is segregation?0

    An interesting debate is taking place in Minnesota’s Twin Cities over the definition of “segregation”. The controversy at this times is swirling around public charter schools in the urban core of Minneapolis and St. Paul that have a concentration of minority students in them. Is it a form of segregation? Those charter schools are open

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  • What Is Personalized Learning and Why Is It so Controversial? Five Questions Answered

    What Is Personalized Learning and Why Is It so Controversial? Five Questions Answered0

    Editor’s note: The term “personalized learning” is becoming more common. Indeed, 39 states mention personalized learning in their school improvement plans, as required by the Every Student Succeeds Act. Not only are states legislating personalized learning, but philanthropists are funding it and, in some cases, families are pushing back against it. Penny Bishop, a researcher

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  • What Is Originalism? Debunking the Myths

    What Is Originalism? Debunking the Myths0

    Originalism has featured prominently in each of the last three Supreme Court confirmation battles – those of Neil Gorsuch in 2017, Brett Kavanaugh in 2018 and now Amy Coney Barrett. Each time, misconceptions about this theory of constitutional interpretation have swirled: Isn’t originalism self-defeating because the Founders weren’t originalist? Don’t originalists ignore the amendments written

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  • What is Neoliberalism?

    What is Neoliberalism?1

    Neoliberalism is one of those concepts that changes meaning depending on whom you ask. Whereas the intellectual opponents of capitalism use it to refer to the political and economic system that emerged in the 1980s and continues to be hegemonic today, classical liberals see it as a vague and empty concept that adds nothing to

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  • What Is Nationalism?

    What Is Nationalism?0

    Mark Malvasi’s recent essay on the rise of nationalism in the nineteenth century was a cogent and thought-provoking appraisal of the dangers of politically orchestrated mob-patriotism. It was not, however, an essay that sought to define nationalism per se, and it is dangerous to presume that nationalism is always synonymous with such mob-patriotism and the

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