French political thinker and historian, minister of Foreign Affairs (1805-1859)
Throughout the year, we talk much on these “pages” about education in North Carolina, our schools, and raising kids. We haven’t talked much about being grateful, but we should. Gratitude…
I grew up a Rush Baby. Some of my earliest political memories come not from school or textbooks but from Rush Limbaugh’s unmistakable voice filling our car. I subscribed to…
Daniel Cox and Sam Pressler document a disturbing element of American civic life today. America’s civic decline has not affected all groups equally. Americans with college degrees often reside in…
Tunku Varadarajan gathers important insights about higher education’s current state from a Harvard expert. If you want the long view of what’s gone wrong with American higher education, you could…
Jenna Silber Storey of the American Enterprise Institute explores one great thinker’s thoughts about the roles of religion and democracy in public life. When Alexis de Tocqueville arrives in America…
Political leaders and the media have been warning of a “threat to democracy” for months. While their rhetoric claims support for a pure democracy, it’s important to remember that in…
Yuval Levin explores at National Review Online a recent comparison between the woke left and a religious group from America’s past. Critics of the rigid and imperious ideological extremism of…
Jenna Silber Storey of the American Enterprise Institute explores one factor contributing to today’s government dysfunction: the decline of liberal education. Thinking about the problems we’re having in higher education…
Update: On June 3, the State Board of Education voted to postpone their vote on the K-5 social studies unpacking documents, crosswalk, strand map, and glossary. Among other matters, members…
Marc Landy writes for the Federalist about the value of federalism during times of difficult politics. Federalism is like a diet. Both the left and right try to stick to…
The book is A Republic If You Can Keep It, and, in his recent review, the usually acerbic Michael Greve is full of praise: Justice Gorsuch has collected some of…
Rich Lowry of National Review Online muses about the way America would have evolved if another great European power had colonized it. Our cultural nation was extremely important at the…