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View More NewsThis week, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, and Nick Gillespie are joined by Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller to discuss why public schools have lost 1.4 million students since the pandemic even as their budgets have grown. They examine the rise of school choice, microschools, and other alternatives to traditional public education. They discuss why families are increasingly opting out and whether declining enrollment will finally force public schools to rethink how they operate. The panel then discusses Vice President J.D. Vance’s proposal to make federal childcare subsidies available to married couples with a stay-at-home parent. They also reflect on the 25th anniversary of the…
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What follows is an excerpt from Advocacy in Literary Studies, a report published earlier this month under the auspices of the Vanderbilt–WashU Commission on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences. Its Report on the State of Scholarship in the Humanities and the Humanistic Social Sciences was published in April and excerpted in Quillette.Mathematicians and physicists typically do not instruct students in the history of their disciplines. What is old is outdated. That is not true of great literature. As nineteenth-century British essayist William Hazlitt pointed out in his essay Why the Arts Are Not Progressive?,…
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