Features

No Excuses
Houston educator Thaddeus Lott turns failing schools into laboratories of learning. What’s his secret?
Tyce Palmaffy

Making Criminals Pay
Genesee County leads a national movement to make criminals accountable to their victims
Joe Loconte

Charity Tax Credits--and Debits
If charities are to help replace the welfare state, should government subsidize private giving? A debate
Merrill Matthews, Peter Barwick, Grace-Marie Arnett, Stanley Carlson-Thies, Robert Rector

America’s Struggle for Racial Equality
Recapturing civil rights leaders’ commitment to ending discrimination
Charles Canady

Departments

Correspondence

The Shocking Success of Welfare Reform
Steven Hayward on the shocking success of welfare reform
Steven Hayward

Oregon’s Revolt Against Social Security
Oregon’s no-confidence vote on Social Security
Steven Hayward

Virginia’s Free-Market Environmentalist
Elizabeth Norton Dunlop puts effective environmentalism to work in Virginia
Greg Fossedal, John Shanahan

Blessings of Liberty
John Hood on the family benefits of the computer revolution
John Hood

Profiles in Citizenship
Sylvanus Thayer turned men into citizen–soldiers at West Point
Wesley Riddle