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Education

June 17, 2026

Homeschoolers Aren’t Weird (Anymore)

In her short, accessible book, Skipping School, Dixie Dillon Lane traces how American homeschooling went “mainstream.” Combining quantitative research with qualitative interviews, Lane has written a compelling history of an important but notoriously “hidden” population in American education. Continue Reading...
December 09, 2025

Rethinking Education in Africa: Lessons from Albert Jay Nock

Albert Jay Nock, the early-20th-century American social critic, offered a vision of education that challenged the prevailing assumptions of his time. He warned that mass schooling, designed primarily to transmit information and enforce conformity, often comes at the expense of independent judgment, moral imagination, and personal responsibility. Continue Reading...
July 30, 2024

The Conservative Student on the Liberal Campus

John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty never lost its relevance, but we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in it. In the latter half of the past century, many conservative writers, most notably Willmoore Kendall, provided trenchant criticisms of Mill’s arguments. Continue Reading...
February 15, 2024

The Michaela Way and Living in Community

Educators love innovation. Education reform is a perennial theme in political campaigns, and almost every government has new rhetoric about how to reverse plummeting test scores, declining student achievement, and increased school violence and truancy. Continue Reading...
September 06, 2023

Student Loans and the Sin of Usury

A new school year has just begun, and students and their parents are faced once again with the high cost of higher education. The Supreme Court ruled President Biden’s executive order on student loan forgiveness unconstitutional. Continue Reading...