Liberty
Reading good literature to restore civic virtue
Casey Chalk writes for the Federalist about one way to boost civic virtue. Americans don’t read literature much any more. According to a YouGov survey, 40 percent of adults did…
Civic virtue
Liberty
Schools of civic thought make a difference
Benjamin Storey and Jenna Silber Storey assess a significant development in American higher education. In crafting its new college-ranking system, City Journal has made the unusual—but, we believe, wise—choice to reward institutions…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Free speech on campus: Liberty demands a lovely country
Edmund Burke, the political philosopher, believed that love of country is essential to the survival of a free society, and that, for citizens to love their country, it must be lovely.…
Research Brief
Budget, Taxation & Economy
The Left Wants to Blunt School Choice By Warning About Privatization, But It Doesn’t Work
Decrying privatization is the new weapon progressives and other members of the left are using to blunt the advance of school choice. Critics decrying supposed corporate influence in the schools…
Education
Links Between Liberal Education and Liberal Democracy
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…
Liberty
Applying 9/11 Lessons to Today’s Crises
Jonathan Lange writes at the American Thinker that average Americans today can learn lessons from Todd Beamer, one of the passengers who thwarted the hijackers of Flight 93 on 9/11.…
Liberty
The illegitimacy of illegitimacy claims
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explores a disturbing trend in American political discourse. Legitimacy is a thorny problem in politics, because the notion itself is subtle and to some…
Education
Patriotic History
Those who take Eliot Cohen’s classes on strategy and policy become better writers and thinkers themselves as a result of his care for the subject and the English language. Cohen…
Education
A better-educated electorate and the future of Russian meddling
Greg Weiner argues at National Review Online for one method of fighting outside interference in the American electoral process. Our vulnerability to the Russian campaign, then, testifies not just to…
Education
Private Islamic schools are not terrorist training grounds
At the 2013 N.C. School Boards Association’s Public Policy Conference, then-Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson remarked, With the voucher legislation that we have we could be in dangerous territory…
Liberty
History can help
Jay Cost urges National Review Online readers to push for a greater grasp of American political history. Politicians of both parties engage in such stark rhetoric all the time. They…
Liberty
A critique of ‘self-care’
Christine Rosen uses her regular Commentary column to delve into the dubious nature of the modern-day focus on “self-care.” Self-care is less an organized industry than it is an emerging…