A nice note from a reader:

Jonah, we don’t always see eye to eye on things. I am a liberal (still don’t see that as a bad thing, and I don’t think conservatives are bad either) but I think this time you have nailed the Jello to the wall. I have been a college professor for over 10 years, teaching Political Science and Sociology. The greatest frustration in my life has been the incredible numbers of my students who basically don’t know anything. It becomes even worse when a student wants to know what the answers to the test are, but doesn’t really give a hoot about why they need to know this stuff. (The Constitution is details, boring and unimportant to most of them). I finally refused to teach International Relations at the last college I taught at, because not only did the students not know the issues, they couldn’t find these places on a map.
Appreciate the article, I agree that an informed and educated electorate is vital to democracy – which is why we haven’t had much lately.
Peace
[Name withheld]