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November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…in school, no one could show up to a testing site, and the whole project was basically an extension of Jim Crow—so why bother? Colleges across the country went test-optional….
October 14, 2024
Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare
…those family members may be suffering from severe substance abuse or mental illness. And again, she argues that, even if they were, it is the fault of slavery, Jim Crow,…
September 20, 2024
How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots
…ribbon on all-white Techwood Homes in Atlanta, reinforcing rather than challenging the city’s Jim Crow laws. Black neighborhoods across the U.S. were disproportionately cleared as “slums” and replaced by public…
June 23, 2024
Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
…is the evidence for this? Surely the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow are still felt decades after they have ended, but the further we get away from these legal…
April 30, 2024
I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising
…and college towns. The ensuing tempest has led, once again, to a move to defund the organization. Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana, has said he’ll introduce such a bill,…
April 3, 2024
The Fearless Fund, DEI, and Attacks on Philanthropic Freedom
…targeting Black people fall in the same category? What about Julius Rosenwald’s famous support for schools for rural Southern Black children during Jim Crow? Or a foundation that limited its…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…at Risk. How We Got Here During 1980 election, Ronald Reagan called for eliminating the new U.S. Department of Education (which Congress had created a year earlier, fulfilling Jimmy Carter’s…
November 14, 2023
Did Child Poverty Really Increase Last Year?
…CTC expansion who argue that its expiration has increased hardship sharply, requiring that it be reenacted—this time permanently. However, a new report from Jeehoon Han, Bruce Meyer, and Jim Sullivan indicates that…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…from medicine to nuclear power. The recent book by the Reaganite economic writer Jim Pethokoukis, “The Conservative Futurist,” makes an extended version of this argument, tracing our era of stagnation…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…seeking social and economic freedom outside the Jim Crow system.In the post-World War II era, the dense, highly associational urban communities of our cities dispersed into suburbs and exurbs. In the 1960s and 1970s, women joined the workforce,…