Rita Koganzon is assistant professor of political science at the University of Houston. She is the author of Liberal States, Authoritarian Families: Childhood and Education in Early Modern Thought.
Today, the “college experience” centered on a residential life that promises to envelope students in a warm, intimate community has hardened into something more totalizing than even the blundering late-twentieth-century project of enforcing political correctness.
Where do the Hasidim fit in the American picture of religious liberty?
The liberty of the adult citizen depends on the subordination of the prepolitical child.
Liberalism today finds itself in the strange position of being the political philosophy that everyone lives by and no one wants to defend.
Child prodigies take us to the heart of a central conflict in democratic education: Should we focus our national energies on equality—raising everyone to a level—or on elevating the best to their potential?
Liberalism today finds itself in the strange position of being the political philosophy that everyone lives by and no one wants to defend.