Los Angeles Review Of Books 7/14/2024 Is school choice compatible with a national lesson plan? Johann N. Neem considers a radical new proposal from Ashley Rogers Berner.
Review Essays
For Luck or Merit: On Jessi Streib’s “The Accidental Equalizer”
Los Angeles Review Of Books 11/18/2023 Johann Neem reviews Jessi Streib’s new book, “The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College.”
Missed America
The Hedgehog Review 7/1/2023 Attacking the right without asking about the left.
The Beloved, Besieged Humanities Classroom
The Chronicle Of Higher Education 4/21/2023 These are tough times for humanities professors. Flip through The Chronicle and the disillusionment jumps off the page. Post-pandemic students are disengaged. Colleges are cutting humanities programs. Academic libraries,...
Revenge of the Poorly Educated: On Will Bunch’s “After the Ivory Tower Falls”
Los Angeles Review Of Books 3/30/2023 Johann Neem reviews Will Bunch’s “After the Ivory Tower Falls: How College Broke the American Dream and Blew Up Our Politics―and How to Fix It.”
The Model Minority Might Be Too Good at the Game
The Hedgehog Review 10/6/2022 How an instrumentalist approach to education shortchanges everybody.
The Struggle to Make the United States Secular
Los Angeles Review Of Books 7/15/2022 Johann Neem on David Sehat’s explanation of why American law turned secular in the mid-1900s.
The University in Ruins: The ‘Innovations’ That Promise to Save Higher Education Are a Farce
The Chronicle Of Higher Education 3/21/2022 The "innovations" that promise to save higher ed are a farce.
On Patriotism and Potlucks
Los Angeles Review Of Books 7/31/2021 Patriotism is a virtue — if you do it right.