If you’re probing a controversial issue, it’s heartening to find someone with wide-ranging experience and expertise in the field. And, when it comes to school vouchers, Josh Cowen—author of The [...] Continue Reading
Books
Trump vs. the Universities
In Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future (One Signal Publishers/Atria Books, 2024), author Jason Stanley examines fascism and education. Stanley is a professor of [...] Continue Reading
How Social Media Is Changing Our Lives
Several recent books and articles that probe the troubling aspects of social media have something in common: They focus on the dangers that social media platforms pose for the young. Less explored, [...] Continue Reading
“They’ll Miss Their State”
For several years, some historians have speculated that democracies as we know them might collapse—and that repressive autocracies might replace them. For at least two scholars, however, the [...] Continue Reading
“Yanking the Hook”: Modern-Day Gambling
It’s something “worth celebrating”—at least according to a December 2024 cover story in The Economist. The development that’s making the magazine so enthusiastic: a recent explosion of gambling [...] Continue Reading
“Punishing and Insulting the Poor”
It’s a problem that many employees face now and then: What should they do if they have a truly awful boss? Several workers in Adelle Waldman’s Help Wanted share this problem, and they came up with [...] Continue Reading
The Rule of the Worth
BY STEVEN ROESCH A series of German folktales involves the citizens of a make-believe town called Schilda. When problems arise, the people of Schilda are sure to find a dimwitted and ineffective [...] Continue Reading
Anne Applebaum’s Autocracy, Inc.
What in the world happened? In November 1989, the Berlin Wall was breached. Two years later, the Soviet Union collapsed. During those heady years, the air was alive with talk of the “end of [...] Continue Reading