From the Academy

Is No Civics Better Than Civics?

It is a dogma of educationism, the Pelagian quasi-religion of America, that the public schools make young people into good citizens. With this end in view, in most high schools there exist courses for junior and senior students in American government, problems of democracy, citizenship, and the like—the advanced forms of the “civics” to which most young people have been exposed repeatedly in earlier grades.