Sublime

The selection process at the best schools is presently designed not to find the best minds but rather to find minds already shaped to the culture and ideology the universities regard as being able to benefit from their education.

Bryan Caplan has proposed a national “Voter Achievement Exam.” Each year (or maybe before an election) the government offers a voluntary test which covers basic political information and basic social scientific matters. Citizens who take the exam get a cash prize, pays a thousand dollars for getting 90–100 percent of the questions right, five hundr

exigencies

to participate in the great decisions of government. There was, Lippmann brooded, no “intrinsic moral and intellectual virtue to majority rule.” Lippmann’s disenchantment with democracy anticipated the mood of today’s elites. From the top, the public, and the swings of public opinion, appeared irrational and uninformed. The human material out of wh

Are expectations of longer-term benefits reasonable?

A board of three is ideal.

Americans want courts to protect minorities and defend liberties, and to defer to elected officials. We want arobust political life and one that is just.

Don’t Disrupt

The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think and How Schools Should Teach, the developmental psychologist Howard Gardner