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A Parent’s Primer On Why College Is So Pricey—and What You Can Do About It 0
- Economics
- May 6, 2019
All of this talk about free college and student loan forgiveness should lead us to wonder why college costs and debt are rising in the first place. Not that long ago, many of us paid for much or all of our college tuition — even at private institutions — by working campus and summer jobs.
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The Children at Play in Congress 0
- Politics
- May 6, 2019
“Where do the children play?” is the refrain from a 1970 Cat Stevens song in which the singer-songwriter warned about the dangers of skyscrapers, roads, and plans to the environment. Well, here we are, forty-nine years later, and children are still romping around playgrounds, parks, backyards, woods, and sandboxes. Oh, yes — and the halls
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The Perils of an Open Mind 0
- Culture
- May 3, 2019
How often have you heard someone praised for having an open mind? Pretty often, I’d bet. How often has such a comment been taken as something other than a compliment? Not very often, I’d suspect. After all, open-mindedness in our open society is thought to be a very good trait to possess. Indeed, what could
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Why Schools Need a ‘Curriculum of Family’0
- Culture
- May 3, 2019
Who should be a greater influence in a child’s life: parents or teachers? Many would say the latter. After all, teachers are the professional experts who know about childhood development and the elements of a good education. They are the ones who can get children through school, into a good college, and eventually into a
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The U.S. is a Democratic Constitutional Republic, and Yes, It Matters 2
- Education
- May 3, 2019
James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution and primary author of the Bill of Rights, repeatedly emphasized that the United States is a “republic” and not a “democracy.” In stark contrast, Jonathan Bernstein, a Bloomberg columnist and former political science professor recently insisted: “One of this age’s great crank ideas, that the U.S. is
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You Can Work for the Bernie 2020 Campaign, but Don’t Expect Health Insurance 0
- Economics
- May 3, 2019
Polls show that presidential candidate Bernie Sanders enjoys great appeal among young voters. No Health Insurance for Interns A Harvard-Harris poll conducted in January found that the Vermont senator’s strongest support comes from the 18-34 demographic, where he was favored by nearly one-third (29 percent) of prospective Democratic and independent voters. Sanders’s closest rivals in
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