America s shared smoke blanket theweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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After spending a few columns exploring current debates about history and race and education, I intended to step back and write about why the conservative effort to use state legislation to block new progressive educational theories is likely to ultimately fail.
But sometimes somebody writes a better version of your intended column first, and a few days ago Samuel Goldman, a professor at George Washington University and a writer for TheWeek.com, did exactly that. Invoking the long history of failed conservative attempts to fight liberal cultural shifts with legislative backlash, Goldman noted that in the case of education, “statute books are where conservative curriculum reforms go to die.” The problem isn’t just that the new statutes are too broad or too ambiguous. “It’s that they target ideas rather than the structure and personnel of educational institutions.”
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Five years ago, it seemed to many observers that something called “nationalism” had returned to U.S. politics and culture. After a period stretching from the end of the Cold War to the election of Donald Trump when Americans, or at least the elite, had been confident about economic globalization, internationalist foreign policy, and mass immigration, it appeared that much of the Right was now rejecting that consensus. Crucial to this perceived shift was the revival of the idea of America as a “nation,” a specific place and distinct people whose values and political projects are not necessarily addressed to the rights and needs of humanity as a whole.
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Samuel Goldman theweek.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theweek.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.