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A commendable desire to counter both civic illiteracy and the excesses of woke ideology has produced a new national movement to mandate history and civics standards. Unfortunately, that strategy will produce the very opposite of its intended effect.

What may be coming our way is an odd kind of “new colonialism,” with flyover country—that Dark Continent formerly known as places like Kansas, Alabama, and Tennessee—reduced in effective power to mission territory for our enlightened coastal elites.

The campus free-speech crisis, kicked into high gear by the election of President Trump in 2016, has metastasized into the woke revolution of 2020, transforming American attitudes toward education in the process.

Our schools have buried the glory and beauty of America’s story under a mountain of misplaced guilt and tendentious ideology.

Choice and local control remain the best defenses against a suffocating national education orthodoxy.

Traditionalist Christians and Jews can take advantage of this moment to renew classical and civic education.

American business needs to get off the path to slow-motion suicide, and to defend the free-enterprise system.

The president’s foes say he’s abused the public trust. But there’s little public trust to abuse.

A democracy refreshes itself by alternating its political emphases. In this way, the American people remain approximately sane, and prevent themselves from becoming either totalitarian or bored. But a binary system will break up if the two stars fly too far apart—if their mutual gravity cannot hold them in tension.

Senator Ben Sasse’s new book Them: Why We Hate Each Other — and How to Heal is not so much a lament for a bygone era as an attempt to diagnose and repair what has led us to this moment of spittle-flecked rage.

The Kavanaugh drama, with its black-and-white issues, resembled an old black-and-white movie.

The most underappreciated political story of our time is the changing content of K-12 textbooks in history, civics, social studies, and related subjects.