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A Reign of Error 0
- Culture
- July 8, 2020
At the end of The Unheavenly City: The Nature and the Future of Our Urban Crisis (1968), Edward Banfield presents a prospect regarding race relations that seems to have been fulfilled since his tumultuous years and ours: a reign of error. Let me set the stage. America had become the wealthiest nation in the history
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Dismantling America Without a Replacement 0
- Economics
- July 8, 2020
Calls to dismantle this group or that institution have become the topic du jour in American politics. It started with police departments and the criminal justice system, then it spread to museums, and now one Democratic congresswoman is raising the bar on a logarithmic scale. In a Tuesday press conference devoted to discussing America’s alleged systemic racism, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, D-MN,
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Back to School? ‘No Thanks’ Say Millions of New Homeschoolers 0
- Education
- July 8, 2020
Next month marks the beginning of the 2020/2021 academic year in several U.S. states, and pressure is mounting to reopen schools even as the COVID-19 pandemic persists. Florida, for example, is now considered the nation’s No. 1 hot spot for the virus; yet on Monday, the state’s education commissioner issued an executive order mandating that
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Our Ignorance of the Past Condemns Us to Perpetual Childhood 0
- History
- July 8, 2020
Zebulon Vance, governor of North Carolina during the Civil War, attained a pardon from the United States government for siding with the Confederacy and became a Senator. His colleagues in Congress enjoyed the company of this witty, earthy man, and a group of them invited Vance to visit them in New England. At one get-together,
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Three Things I Noticed Coming Home to America After Living Abroad 0
- Culture
- July 8, 2020
When you live abroad, the picture you get of America is pretty depressing. It seems like the country is falling apart. I recently returned to America for the first time in nearly two years. Although a U.S. citizen, I have been living abroad since 2012. Flying internationally during a pandemic was never my plan, but
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Abandoning ‘America First’ In Afghanistan 0
- International
- July 7, 2020
With Americans growing ever more divided amid national upheaval over racial inequality and a global pandemic, it has perhaps never been more apparent that the United States has no business trying to fix the world with so many problems on our own doorstep. Whatever his faults, President Trump at least seems to understand this. Even
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