The Forum

School Wars

To Save the World (And Build it Anew)

Student activists helped bring us Black and Ethnic Studies, Gender Studies, and faculty DEI initiatives. Now, they need our support.

• Elise A. Mitchell

School Wars

I Can’t Go On, I’ll Go On

Facing another school year in the crossfire of the anti-CRT culture wars

• Willie Randall

School Wars

Can Difficult Conversations Create Justice?

In the culture-war crossfire surrounding racially minded teaching, we may be losing sight of who’s supposed to benefit

• Willie Randall

School Wars

They Want Your Child!

How right-wing school panics seek to repeal modernity and progress

• Rick Perlstein

School Wars

Stuck on the Rufo Road

Why Democratic power brokers won’t fight for public education

• Jennifer C. Berkshire

School Wars

Resisting the Curriculum of Racist Violence

After the Buffalo massacre, CRT bans are more destructive and delusional than ever

• Willie Randall

School Wars

Blinded by the White

Undoing the presumptions of whiteness, one searching discussion at a time

• Willie Randall

School Wars

Questioning Race Up Close

How teachers can help dismantle a lethal social fiction

• Willie Randall

School Wars

The Illegal Work of Racial Healing

Helping students talk honestly about race in a political culture that doesn’t want them to

• Willie Randall

School Wars

Unwoke and Illiberal

A behind-the-scenes dispatch from the vanguard flank of the anti-CRT school wars

• Jennifer C. Berkshire

School Wars

Lone-Star Inquisition

How the Texas book ban harks back to the heyday of the Confederacy

• Anthony Conwright