Politics after Peshawar
Pakistan’s Proteus

Now that Pakistan’s charismatic Imran Khan is no longer leading protests against the government, what role will he take on next?

BA Watch
California Puts the Shine on Community Colleges

If community colleges offer a cheaper degree with good employment prospects, why not get your B.A. there? Well, now you can.

Green and Mean
CalPERS Could Scuttle Coal

In California, the craziness is catching. First the universities, now the pension funds.

Education Gets Smart
Stuff Learned, Not Time Served: High School Edition

Washington, DC gets in on the act, seeking to improve its high school dropout rates. Bravo!

Ill-inois
The Sick Man of the States

The state of historic Presidents is in deep financial trouble. A new study about state corruption doesn’t inspire confidence in its ability to recover.

Review
The Christian America That Never Was

The American evangelical movement’s manufactured nostalgia is failing to slake the soul’s thirst.

Retroview
The Voegelin Enigma

Eric Voegelin smashed every category, scrambled every dichotomy, and spurned every orthodoxy he encountered to discover what ailed modern Western society.

Homo Americanus
Duane’s World

How the son of Syrian immigrants accidentally became one of Toledo’s rock-and-roll impresarios.

Review
Nudge, or Shove?

Cass Sunstein’s ‘libertarian paternalism’ doesn’t just sound oxymoronic; it actually is. Liberalism deserves more forthright advocacy.

Review
Iraq and Ruin

Two recent books by Iraqis on their country’s lost opportunities for democracy are themselves lost in wishful thinking.

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