Quentin L. Quade

After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundation of Freedom by David Walsh HarperSanFrancisco, 296 pages, $29.95 In this book, David Walsh uses Nietzsche to show bow the modern Western world, after tearing itself loose from its Christian foundations, inevitably failed to maintain a defensible . . . . Continue Reading »

The widely noted appearance of John Chubb and Terry Moe’s Politics, Markets & America’s Schools reminds us again of the fundamental problem in American educational policy: the disposition in every state to fund the public schools at often lavish levels and to tax citizens accordingly, . . . . Continue Reading »

Straight Shooting: What’s Wrong with America and How to Fix It by John Silber Harper and Row, 336 pages, $22.50 This book’s seemingly presumptuous subtitle prepared me not to like it. That predisposition was quickly set aside, as was the presumption of presumption. This is a very good . . . . Continue Reading »