Last week’s curation at RealClear’s American Civics portal begins by highlighting a new short documentary, “American Miseducation,” a joint effort between The Free Press and the Jack Miller Center. “American Miseducation” sheds light on a crisis that’s unfolding at America’s colleges and universities: the recent surge in antisemitism after Hamas’s deadly Oct. 7th attack on Israel. Reporter Olivia Reingold visited campuses from UPenn to Columbia and asked students a series of questions that are intended to explore what's ultimately to blame. How did antisemitism “come to inspire masses of Americans chanting on behalf of Hamas and Yemeni Houthis?” Why are Gen Zers, “the most educated generation in U.S. history, become sympathetic to terrorism?” Finally, why have American institutions of higher education trade[ded] in the pursuit of truth” for “something far darker?” Watch "American Miseducation" today. Parents looking for quality children’s books on American history should look no further than historian Jonathan W. White’s new volume, “Igniting an Appreciation for Abraham Lincoln in Children.” In a piece for RealClearEducation, White, a professor of American Studies at Christopher Newport University and a Jack Miller Center fellow, introduces kids to the young Lincoln, a “little boy who grew up in poverty and rural isolation – without education, who lost his mother at age nine, and who almost died several times – and yet who became the most admired and revered of Americans.” He concludes by noting that he hopes when “young readers finish ‘My Day with Abe Lincoln,’ they will know more about Lincoln’s childhood than most adults do.” He also hopes that kids will “feel a connection to Lincoln as they see the hurdles he had to overcome to become our nation’s greatest leader.” Original Posts Olivia Reingold, The Free Press In partnership with the Jack Miller Center, The Free Press examines how an ideology once restricted to... Essential Reading Jonathan W. White, RealClearEducation Historians and the general public regularly rank Abraham Lincoln as America's greatest president. There is little doubt... In the News Robert Curry, Chronicles Adeline Von Drehle, RealClearPolitics John Burtka, Newsweek Richard J. Mouw, Public Discourse Adolfo Flores, Matt Barnum, WSJ Susan Crabtree, RealClearPolitics Evie Blad, Education Week Jeff Mayhugh, The Hill Trey Dimsdale, Acton Institute C. Bradley Thompson, Substack Stephen Gruber-Miller, USA Today Paul Schwennesen, Law & Liberty A.G. Gancarski, Florida Politics Garion Frankel, RealClearHistory Martin Redish, The Hill Jack Miller Center We've reached a time for choosing in higher education. Over the past few months, American college campuses... The Free Press & Jack Miller Center American Miseducation was made possible through our partnership with the Jack Miller Center for Teaching America's Founding... Constitutionalist On the sixteenth episode of The Constitutionalist, Shane Leary and Dr. Benjamin Kleinerman discuss Federalist no. 10... Civil Podcast Robert George is the McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the James Madison Program in American... Carl Cannon's Great American Stories It's the first Friday in February, "Groundhog Day," and the day of week when I share quotations intended to be ... It's Friday, an unseasonably warm day for late January here on the East Coast. It's also the day of week ... Following tradition, local residents voted this morning in the tiny New Hampshire village of Dixville Notch just after the clock ... |