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READ MOREThe latest data dump from the Nation’s Report Card reveals declining academic performance among US students. As with previous releases showing the same trend, especially over the past three years, the solution proposed by many education reformers and advocates is to double-down on the amount of schooling and school-like activities students get. “The greatest challenge
READ MOREThere’s nothing wrong with billionaires, corporations, and philanthropic organizations giving money to our public and private universities, right? They’re just putting their fortunes to work for the benefit of the American people. They’re advancing our cultural and scientific development out of the goodness of their hearts. Think again. Universities are the heart of our intellectual
READ MOREJust how untethered to the rule of law did the United States come during the Covid response? Before March 2020, most Americans would think that monitoring church attendance, banning Easter services, and arresting hymn singers were practices reserved for Eastern-style totalitarianism. The Soviet Union persecuted Christians and the Chinese have Muslim concentration camps, but Americans’
READ MOREEver since I first read The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, I have been enthralled with the brilliance of C.S. Lewis’ books for children. So, I was surprised when I first read John Milton’s Paradise Lost and stumbled across a few lines that were very familiar: His visage drawn he felt to sharp and
READ MOREI had just returned from the national March for Life in Washington, D.C., when I looked down at the positive pregnancy test in my hand, my boyfriend at my side. Time stopped as I felt my heart thump faster and faster—loudly—and despair and panic set in. “I messed up so bad,” I cried as my knees buckled under
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READ MOREFrench philosopher and social critic Paul-Michel Foucault has long stood as an intellectual juggernaut in humanities programs all around the world. For better or worse, the contemporary understanding of critical theory—and critical race theory—as well as gender theory owes debts to Foucault’s ideas about power, knowledge, and language. Even beyond the classroom, Foucault’s ideas have
READ MOREKara was 11 when her family first sold her body for drugs. Sydney was 14 when she met an older man online who promised her financial security and a better life. And after another stint in the foster care system, Marcus decided that anything, including homelessness, would be better than the foster family he was
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