Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to RealityBy Charles MurrayCrown Forum (New...

It is true that many social and economic problems are disproportionately found among people with little education, but the culprit for their educational deficit is often low intelligence.

Educational romanticism asks too much from students at the bottom of the intellectual pile, asks the wrong things from those in the middle, and asks too little from those at the top.

The romantic belief that every child is capable of academic success has been proven incorrect.

Hardly anyone will admit it, but education's role in causing or solving any problem cannot be evaluated without considering the underlying intellectual ability of the people being educated.

John O'Sullivan discusses the problems with today's American conservatism in this Bradley Lecture.