With students now in control of campus and classroom, Epstein wonders if it is all the result of raising children in the therapeutic ethos. Epstein himself was raised in a different ethos, a world in which there was no shortage of adults beseeching youngsters to “grow up.”
A review of The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System, Natalie Wexler, Avery, 2019, 324 pp., $27.00 hardcover. Bauerlein notes that while author Natalie Wexler exposes the whole recent trend to teach reading through reading comprehension “strategies” as a failure, she cannot move toward endorsing content-rich curricula, since that would clash with diversity and multiculturalism.
June 24, 2024
Through the conveyance of its graduates into influential positions in corporations, state bureaucracies, and the media, elite universities propagate leftist ideas throughout American life....
May 30, 2018
From the summer issue of Academic Questions, we reprint the controversial article, "The Case for Colonialism." ...
July 2, 2020
The idea that there are more than two sexes in human beings is a rejection of everything biological science has taught us. Unbelievably, this idea is coming directly from within the highest......
October 18, 2023
The claim that American policing “traces back” to, “started out” as, or “evolved directly from,” southern slave patrols, is false....
