Culture
Parents Win: Radical Curriculum Pushed Out of Classrooms
School boards across the country are responding to a national grassroots movement to restore reading, writing, arithmetic — and common sense.
Culture
Phonics Won
The schools of education are quietly updating their syllabi. Twenty years of cognitive-science research finally arrived. Two generations of children paid the bill in the meantime.
Culture
The Comedy Came Back
For ten years, the comedians who could fill an arena were the ones who refused to apologize. They are filling arenas. The cultural commissars are filling auditoriums of dwindling true believers.