Columns

July 2017

The Wrong War

By Philip Jenkins

The assault on American history continues apace, with the further removal of Confederate monuments and symbols, and the expunging of anything relating to slavery or slaveholders.

Polemics & Exchanges

July 2017

Cultural Revolutions

November 1999

The Teaching Evolution

By Stephen B. Presser

The teaching evolution is back in the news, in a case that the media—with their usual sensationalism—are comparing to the Scopes trial of 75 years ago.

On Mental Illness and the Frankfurt School

Cultural Revolutions

October 1999

The women's movement is in considerable disarray. While most self-described feminists are concerned mainly with job prospects, equal pay, and abortion rights, the radical wing of the movement is busy advocating everything from witchcraft to...

Cultural Revolutions

October 1989

Flag Amendment

A Flag Amendment—what would be the effect? In one school of thought that goes back through Acton to Jefferson to Plato, the health of a society is inversely proportional to the amount of written law (and the number of lawyers) it has.

Cultural Revolutions

October 1989

School decentralization was one of the few practical items on the New Left's agenda of the 1960's. It was a genuinely radical idea, since the entire history of public education in the US has been the steady progress of consolidation and...

Reviews

March 1989

Reading, Writing, 'Rithmetic and War

By Michael W. Albin

Twenty-five years ago when I was a schoolteacher in an Afghan mountain valley I came across a book by an English pedagogue called Teaching English Under Difficult Circumstances.

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March 1989

Education for a Conquered Nation

By John Chodes

Declining test scores. Illiterate, spiritless, and passive graduates who have little motivation to find a job or succeed. Youngsters with no skills to compete in the marketplace. This is the tragic record of American public education, after...

Cultural Revolutions

January 1989

One of the most moving war memorials I know is on a wall outside the reading room of the British Museum. It is a simple plaque with the names of a hundred or so librarians killed in the Great War. Librarians. Think about it.

Cultural Revolutions

January 1988

By Edward S. Shapiro

Irving Bernstein graduated from the University of Rochester in 1937, the same year as the spectacular series of sit-down strikes in the Midwest industrial heartland, the Memorial Day "massacre" at the Republic Steel plant in South Chicago, and...

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September 1985

By Alan J. Levine

Perspective

March 1985

Private Faith & Public Schools

By Bryce J. Christensen

Bookshelves

November 1984

Commendables – Of Bullets & Ballots

By John Caiazza

Reviews

December 1984

Waste of Money

Media MIA's, Power to the Professors

Reviews

December 1984

Commendables

A Dangerous Classic, Ideological Body Count, Fighting the Media Moguls, Of Puerile Pedagogy

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September 1984

The Joy of Cents

By Mark Michaelsen

If government can manage the economy successfully, as Godley and Cripps suggest, think of the joyful politics which could emanate from this intellectual base. But such an outcome is doubtful.