Character formation, civics, and the inculcation of the best of our traditions are inseparable from any meaningful idea of education, writes Yuval Levin. Conservatives will now have to press that case — and help our fellow citizens see its promise.
Scott Gottlieb and Marc Lipsitch say small steps such as handwashing and covering coughs can not only reduce our risks of infection but also have a big impact on the scope of an epidemic.
Why are the Democrats having so much trouble settling on a nominee? Answer: socialism. Marc Thiessen explains that the Democrats’ nominating process is socialist compared with the Republicans’ more capitalist approach.
One of the supposedly indisputable facts about “late capitalism” America is soaring wealth inequality. But according to a preliminary paper from the University of Pennsylvania, the reality may be different, writes James Pethokoukis.
Economically beneficial entrepreneurship is declining in America. This decline is not caused by a change in individual-level desire to be an entrepreneur or by fewer people trying to make entrepreneurship work, but rather by an inability to make new entrepreneurial endeavors take off, explains Lyman Stone.
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