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James Ceaser is the Harry F. Byrd Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia, director of the Program for Constitutionalism and Democracy, and was a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books on American politics and American political thought, including...
Testing: Education’s Indispensable GPS
We need a national conversation about the “why” of testing students annually, because we as educators need to come to a collective understanding of their importance. This could be led by our country’s new secretary of education, and we’re seeing many governors and state commissioners lead these conversations in many states.
COVID-19, High School, And The “Both And” World
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus many of the structural imperfections of American high schools: unequal educational opportunity for significant numbers of students, weak adherence to course content that would adequately prepare students for life after high school, and incoherent pathways that leave many students with a dead-end diploma.
Learning Losses- What To Do About Them
In early 2020, education leaders across the globe watched in dread as the coronavirus pandemic unfolded, with dire consequences for schools and those attending them. Dealt a hand of bad to worse options, they conscientiously chose to protect educators and students by closing school buildings, sending everyone home, and redirecting educators to instruct remotely. Local conditions—both medical and political—continue to shape the course of the 2020–21 school year, resulting in a slate of arrangements including schools in various states of openness, millions of children still trying to learn from home, and continued disruption to normal education activities.
How Will Demographic Transformations Affect Democracy in the Coming Decades?
In 2007–2009 a major drought—the worst in forty years—struck northern Syria, the country’s agricultural breadbasket and a region that had already been suffering from loss of irrigation subsidies and water shortages. Syria’s young and fast-growing population meant that over a million people in the region were directly affected by the drought. In “the 2007/2008 agriculture season, nearly 75 percent of these households suffered total crop failure.” Hundreds of thousands left their lands and moved to the cities of Aleppo, Hama, and Damascus. Because Syria already was suffering from widespread popular discontent over political exclusion and corruption, these refugees added to the existing weight of urban misery and anger with the regime. Two years later, when a rebellion broke out in southern Syria, revolt quickly spread to these northern cities and precipitated civil war. The war in turn created millions more refugees, who spread to Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, and then to Europe, where a sudden surge of over one million war refugees sought asylum in 2015.
Governance Challenges to Infrastructure and the Built Environment Posed by Climate Change
The Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii sits two miles above sea level and over 2,200 miles from the nearest continent. For decades, scientists in this government laboratory have collected data on the atmosphere. In recent years, the world’s eyes have been fixed on a particular set of numbers coming out of Mauna Loa—readings of atmospheric concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), a key heat-trapping gas associated with climate change. Since the late 19th century, CO2 emissions have grown to unprecedented levels. In 2013, the daily average concentration of CO2 surpassed 400 parts per million for the first time in modern history. Emissions of CO2 continue to rise, reaching the largest amount ever recorded in 2018, according to the International Energy Agency. Greenhouse gas emissions have resulted in an increase of average global surface temperatures of approximately 1°C since the 1880s.
Latin America: Opportunities and Challenges for the Governance of a Fragile Continent
Facebook Live. That was the platform chosen by Jair Bolsonaro to issue his first statements after learning of his triumph in the presidential elections in Brazil in October 2018.1 It was not a speech at the headquarters of his party or in a public place. It was not the television channels or the radio stations that intermediated in the communication with the citizens. More than 300,000 people saw their statements live, and within the hour there were more than two million people who had seen his eight-minutes long message, approximately, quickly registering nearly 350,000 comments and reactions.
Underage Drinking and the Drinking Age
The Amethyst Initiative’s harmful remedy
Why “Faith-Based” Is Here to Stay
The broad shift in strategy for providing services
The Ultimate Literary Portrait
Boswell's painterly masterpiece
Taxing Private Equity
Anomalies of a Byzantine tax code
Leviathan Then And Now
The latter-day importance of Hobbes’s masterpiece
The Wellness Gospel and the Future of Faith
Medicalizing spirituality hurts both religion and medicine
Letters
Prayer, Movies, Russia et cetera
Europe's "Social Market"
Two, three, many capitalisms
Killing Them Softly
Do needle-exchange programs ward off disease—or consign addicts to death on the installment plan?
Why There is a Culture War
Gramsci and Tocqueville in America
Hospice, Not Hemlock
The medical and moral rebuke to doctor-assisted suicide
We the Slave Owners
In Jefferson's America, were some men not created equal?
The Environmentalist’s Dilemma
The Mismeasure of Inequality
Focus on equal opportunity, not outcomes. To listen to Lee Ohanian and Tod Lindberg, click below.