Author: Crispin Sartwell

I like to assume that educators chose their line of work not because they enjoy wielding arbitrary power over children or because education is an easier major than theoretical physics, but because deep in their hearts they are idealists. And so I wonder how they feel when instead of teaching they find themselves running internment…

The question of whether children have constitutional rights, and if so, which, is a fraught one. But one thing we ought to be able to agree on is that children have something like an absolute right to peaceful political expression. First of all, there is no reason why they shouldn’t. And second, there is no…