Defuse the Culture War with Liberated Education

More choice, at the school and classroom level, can allow families to decide for themselves what their kids will learn.

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Protestors clash outside the Glendale Unified School District offices as they protest for and against how gender and sexuality identity should be taught to children, in Glendale, Calif., June 6, 2023.

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America’s culture wars are often seen as conflicts between conservatives defending the values of white Christians and progressives asserting the rights of minorities.

It has never been that simple, but today there is something new that clearly complicates this narrative: Some of the minorities that progressives have sought to protect are also conservative in their morals. Consequently, they are raising their voices against progressive impositions, especially on their children.

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Neal McCluskey

Neal McCluskey directs the Cato Institute's Center for Educational Freedom and is the author of The Fractured Schoolhouse: Reexamining Education for a Free, Equal, and Harmonious Society.

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Mustafa Akyol

Mustafa Akyol is a senior fellow at the Cato Institute's Center for Global Liberty and Prosperity and the author of Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Reason, Freedom, and Tolerance.

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