America’s health system is certainly flawed and in need of reform, but there is clearly something working well enough that our system, despite already treating ten times more cases of appendicitis, can absorb the dissatisfied Canadians.

Nearly 50,000 media stories on summer learning appeared in 2018.  Despite the seeming consensus that children lose learning during the summer, a 2017 report from the Brookings Institute showed that the research on summer learning is actually quite mixed.

He had grown up around many youngsters of Japanese ancestry and counted some of them as his best friends. When he saw them rounded up by the US government to be shipped off to desert camps, he went with them.

John Maynard Keynes, one of history’s most influential economists, predicted in 1930 that the grandchildren of his generation would enjoy 15-hour workweeks—and he was hardly alone. So, what did the prophets fail to account for?

In Hillbilly Elegy, author J.D. Vance comments on the consequences of the views the education system instills, writing that “what separates the successful from the unsuccessful are the expectations that they had for their own lives.” Instead of defeatist narratives about our culture and society, we need to advance the reality that our meritocracy, while imperfect, is still alive.

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