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  • What American Students Learned about the Pilgrims in 1913 vs. Today

    What American Students Learned about the Pilgrims in 1913 vs. Today0

    I was reminded that Thanksgiving is fast approaching when I drove by a local school the other day and saw children leaving the building wearing Pilgrim and Indian hats. This morning I got to thinking: the story of the Pilgrims’ arrival in America is quite a common lesson in the early elementary classroom, but is

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  • What American Education Has in Common with the Dark Ages

    What American Education Has in Common with the Dark Ages0

    The period of the “Dark Ages” is synonymous with cultural deterioration in the West. It is typically applied to those centuries following the fall of the Roman Empire at the end of the 5th century, and is regarded as a time when education dramatically declined. In his classic Education and Culture in the Barbarian West,

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  • What America’s First Student-Led Rebellion Looked Like

    What America’s First Student-Led Rebellion Looked Like0

    In 1834, a 30-year-old seminary student named Theodore Dwight Weld led what is arguably the most successful student rebellion in U.S. history. It took place near Cincinnati at Lane Theological Seminary, where Weld had enrolled the previous year after dedicating his life to a single cause: the abolition of slavery. “Abolition immediate universal is my desire

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  • What Amazon’s Documentary ‘Lorena’ Teaches About American Society

    What Amazon’s Documentary ‘Lorena’ Teaches About American Society0

    Over the past several years, America has been deluged with documentaries, movies, and limited series revisiting the great media frenzies of the 1990s (OJ Simpson, Waco, Tonya Harding, etc). These shows are entertaining, but they also play a more significant role. This is the way Americans are learning history now. I watched the Paramount Networks’

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  • What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Know About Her Garbage Disposal

    What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Should Know About Her Garbage Disposal0

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is from New York, where garbage disposals are not very common in apartments because they were only legalized in the 1990s, as incredible as that seems. But now she lives in D.C., and she has discovered that there is one in her apartment. It permits the user to push down food scraps rather

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  • What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Wrong about Europe

    What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Gets Wrong about Europe0

    • January 9, 2019

    During her interview with 60 Minutes on Sunday, newly sworn in Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez justified her vision of democratic socialism by invoking a caricature of Europe. When asked if she wanted to turn the United States into a version of Venezuela or the Soviet Union, Ocasio-Cortez demurred with an incredulous smile. “What we have in mind,” she said, according to the transcript,

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