In the recent City Journal, Sol Stern writes an insightful profile of the radical education professor who also happens to be Obama’s neighbor.

Here is a sample:

Ayers?s texts on the imperative of social-justice teaching are among the most popular works in the syllabi of the nation?s ed schools and teacher-training institutes. One of Ayers?s major themes is that the American public school system is nothing but a reflection of capitalist hegemony. Thus, the mission of all progressive teachers is to take back the classrooms and turn them into laboratories of revolutionary change.