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Reading Lasch today, one can see his prescience, as well as the ways that American society has unraveled.
You can’t have a decent politics without a decent culture, and you can’t have culture without cult.
Lasch put his finger on much of what ails American democracy, but we need something more.
We should remember that the elites Lasch so despised remain Americans at heart.
Lasch did not think that 21st century populism could resemble the new right or populist movements of the past.
For entirely too long, advocates have sought revolutionary change that touches all corners of the land.
School choice options and democratic elections give all of us the opportunity to form or reform educational bodies in our own communities.
The idea that education should be an engine of social change has been a hallmark of progressivism for years, so we can’t say we weren’t warned.
Classical education offers a way back from the cliff we’re dangling over.
What looks like the beginning of a golden age in education may be a blip on the radar.