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June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…worthy of this great nation. That’s where a unified theory just might help. Frederick M. Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Michael Q….
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…and otherwise help out the lower-income communities that are least able to help themselves. However, as the Manhattan Institute’s Andy Smarick has suggested in these pages, they should seek to keep…
June 18, 2024
Donald Trump is an Outlier on the Right: When It Comes to Fidelity and Marriage, Democrats Face Bigger Problems
…be flourishing in their marriages today. Take a man I call Patrick in my new book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization. Patrick’s…
June 15, 2024
Reimagining Early Education
For years, conservatives have dropped the ball on early childhood education policy, almost entirely ceding the playing field to the left. This has led to programs that lack guidance from…
May 14, 2024
Biden Can Follow FDR and Dump His VP
…for Harris are also possible — whether replacing Merrick Garland as attorney general (the post she held in California) or even Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court, Dumping Harris would…
May 13, 2024
Do Mothers Have “Societal Support”? Does It Count if It Comes from Neighbors?
…it gets exaggerated in media. For instance, Monica Hesse, a columnist at the Washington Post, just before going on her maternity leave, wrote a column about how unsupported American mothers are: “Pregnancy and…
May 2, 2024
Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education
We just published a new book, Getting Education Right: A Conservative Vision for Improving Early Childhood, K–12, and College. As the title makes clear, we unabashedly make the case for a conservative approach…
May 1, 2024
Getting Higher Education Right
…McShane, Adjunct Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Andy Smarick, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute Moderator: Frederick M. Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute 4:50 p.m. Q&A 5:15 p.m. Adjournment…
April 22, 2024
The Promise and Peril of Civic Renewal: Richard John Neuhaus, Peter L. Berger, and “To Empower People”
…policy has consistently undermined mediating institutions in the years since the book’s publication. The Ethics & Public Policy Center’s Patrick T. Brown explored how people can be convinced to engage…
April 11, 2024
The Right Has an Opportunity to Rethink Education in America
The casual observer can be forgiven if it looks like both the left and the right are doing their best to lose the debate over the future of American education….