Rita Koganzon

About

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.

The Satmar Option

from Theological Variations, Volume 25, Number 2

Where do the Hasidim fit in the American picture of religious liberty?

You’re Not the Boss of Me

from Authenticity, Volume 23, Number 3

The liberty of the adult citizen depends on the subordination of the prepolitical child.

Liberalism Strikes Back

from Reality and Its Alternatives, Volume 21, Number 2

Liberalism today finds itself in the strange position of being the political philosophy that everyone lives by and no one wants to defend.

Raising Wunderkinder

from The Evening of Life, Volume 20, Number 3

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 Strikes Back

Liberalism today finds itself in the strange position of being the political philosophy that everyone lives by and no one wants to defend.