Elite universities are abandoning traditional liberal arts education, but new institutions are filling the gap.
James Hankins
Recent years made it clear that we were being governed by a corrupt oligarchy out of tune with traditional American political norms.
True progress in human government must allow expression to the popular will, but also restrain it by just laws and wise leadership.
The difficulty with the reparations argument has always been practical, not moral. It lies in the questions, by whom? to whom? and how much?
The University of California decides to phase out the SAT and ACT, and abandons the idea of merit.
More democracy is not always the best solution to the problems of democracy, but in the case of a pandemic, it may be our best hope of reasoned action.
James Hankins is a professor of History at Harvard University and a Senior Writer at Law & Liberty. His most recent book, Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy, was published by the Belknap Press of Harvard University Press in November 2019.